Keith’s really more the Michael Savage of the Left: a show powered by nothing more than invective hate to a rapidly shrinking audience.

Yes, this Keith Olbermann viewer certainly wishes for that one.

– You mean like this poll, which clearly indicates that a majority (69%) either doesn’t want the current legislation passed (48%) or doesn’t want ANY legislation to change the current system (21%)?

Waitwaitwait.

He said “solid majorities of the public want SOME health care reform passed” (emphasis mine) and to refute that, you…cite a figure that says 21% of the public DOESN’T want any healthcare reform passed?

I wouldn’t be nearly so pissed at the Dems for failing to get anything done right now if they’d done half as good a job at blocking Bush’s agenda as the Republicans have done at blocking Obama’s.

A little more current than the WHO survey from 2000 that you guys used to throw out regularly here, but still so far past its expiration date it’s starting to reek something fierce.

I think there’ve been about three big elections since then that might make that poll look even more stale now other than simply because it’s really, really, really, really old.

Weak.

Very weak.

Or this poll that shows that 57% (you know, an actual majority), would like an even more liberal bill.

Should the republicans succeed in their single-minded goal to tear Obama down, their own total lack of any positive ideas for the country will become clear in short order.

Unfortunately for you, Dave, we don’t have to wait that long for your utter cluelessness to manifest itself.

Here’s a clue for you at absolutely no charge:

If you can’t pass a piece of “progressive” legislation with a simple majority, then maybe Obama’s election really didn’t give you a mandate to shift the country leftward as liberals like to fantasize.

You mean like this poll, which clearly indicates that a majority (69%) either doesn’t want the current legislation passed (48%) or doesn’t want ANY legislation to change the current system (21%)?

if they don’t like some of the aspects of the current bill

Actually, it’s the entire bill they seem to hate. Which people on the left (starting with Obama and moving on down) seem to have difficulty grasping.

You need to get your facts straight. The health industry bankrollers are making backroom deals with the White House to keep drug prices high. In return, they are promising to pony up $150 million dollars for pro-ObamaCare advertising.

That’s easy:

-complete and zombie-like obstructionism from the party of No (see above graph)

-the fact that the ‘filibuster-proof super majority’ was a myth from the beginning. No majority that included Joe Lieberman, Ben Nelson, etc. was ever going to be a super-majority for anything progressive.

-persistent and well orchestrated campaigns of deliberate misinformation from the party of No, it’s media lapdogs, and their health and energy industry bankrollers.

Even so, health care at least is not dead in the water. I assume you’ve seen those polls that say solid majorities of the public want some health care reform passed? If they don’t like some of the aspects of the current bill it sure isn’t because the Republicans have proposed any serious alternatives, is it?

Thanks for that statement. I really needed a good hearty laugh and that did the trick.

There are already several excellent reasons to give Craig “Mandatory Union Representation for All” Becker the thumbs down.

“August 2006: Throughout the past year, Pelosi has demanded that Democrats unanimously oppose G.O.P. bills. By denying the G.O.P votes from across the aisle, Democrats have forced moderate Republicans to back bills like those cutting Medicaid and other social programs that fiscally conservative Republicans have insisted on, votes for which Democrats have then attacked moderate Republicans in television ads. Pelosi has also ordered Democrats not to work on bills or even hold press conferences with Republicans whom the party is trying to defeat in November.”

Oh, and that first paragraph in the story you linked to is priceless liberal delusion:

There is no way to misinterpret the peoples mandate for progressive change. When we elected President Obama we elected to take a course away from supply side economics to a wider more progressive wealth distribution that tips the scales in favor of America’s workers.

Actually, there is a way to misinterpret it and he clearly did. I wonder if he ever allowed himself to consider that the more likely reason for Obama’s election is that people were fed up with Republicans and wanted to try them some of that “hope and change” that the carnival barker was pitching? “GuaranTEED to cure all yer ills, both Domestic and International!!”

If electing President Hopenchange really was a mandate for a “progressive change”, then why is it that EVERY example of “progressive” legislation (i.e. Card Check, Cap and Trade, Health Care Reform) is dead in the water? Even with an entire year of a filibuster-proof super majority, Obama, Pelosi and Reid were unable to close the deal on ANYTHING.