MoveOn Members Support Passing The Health Care Bill

7:04 pm EST March 11th, 2010 | Liberals, Politics | 9 Comments

By a lopsided margin of 83% to 17%. Either MoveOn supporters are mindlessly echoing the cautious centrist prattling of proto-third way elitist bloggers like myself…

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Most of us on the left realize that the best way forward is to pass this bill, “kill the bill” be damned and unrealistic.

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9 Responses to “MoveOn Members Support Passing The Health Care Bill”

  1. Quaker in a Basement says:
    March 11, 2010 at 7:24 pm

    Winning a little isn’t as good as winning it all, but it sure beats losing.

  2. Pryme says:
    March 11, 2010 at 7:41 pm

    Yeah, go figure: they came to the conclusion that it’s better to have something to build on than work for a year that quit because you’re not getting exactly what you wanted.

  3. Jaim says:
    March 12, 2010 at 4:13 am

    Agreed. Pass the bill, and if it doesn’t place the blame where it lies — not on Jane Hamsher but on President Obama.

  4. anotherbozo says:
    March 12, 2010 at 8:31 am

    Oh good. I’m a member of MoveOn but I missed that statistic. Shultz was unusually impassioned on The Ed Show the other day in his “still better than nothing” stance, and I’m glad to see MoveOn members think likewise.

  5. SaveFarris says:
    March 12, 2010 at 1:14 pm

    The headline doesn’t match the poll question. 83% say they would support the bill Obama is “proposing”, except that the only bill on the table is the Senate Bill (replete with Cornhuskers, LA Purchases, and abortion coverage for illegals), which is nothing like the rainbow and unicorn bill that Obama describes.

  6. liberalrob says:
    March 12, 2010 at 1:17 pm

    Fine. Pass it. Then we’ll see. But don’t expect me to be turning backflips and sending in donations and volunteering this fall because of this awesome health care reform that got passed. I am very disappointed and disillusioned that this is what constitutes “change we can believe in.” It’s probably just as well that my vote in 2008 didn’t matter anyway.

  7. liberalrob says:
    March 12, 2010 at 2:13 pm

    Greenwald today:

    The Democrats’ scam becomes more transparent

    I’ve argued since August that the evidence was clear that the White House had privately negotiated away the public option and didn’t want it, even as the President claimed publicly (and repeatedly) that he did. And while I support the concept of “filibuster reform” in theory, it’s long seemed clear that it would actually accomplish little, because the 60-vote rule does not actually impede anything. Rather, it is the excuse Democrats fraudulently invoke, using what I called the Rotating Villain tactic (it’s now Durbin’s turn), to refuse to pass what they claim they support but are politically afraid to pass, or which they actually oppose (sorry, we’d so love to do this, but gosh darn it, we just can’t get 60 votes). If only 50 votes were required, they’d just find ways to ensure they lacked 50. Both of those are merely theories insusceptible to conclusive proof, but if I had the power to create the most compelling evidence for those theories that I could dream up, it would be hard to surpass what Democrats are doing now with regard to the public option. They’re actually whipping against the public option. Could this sham be any more transparent?

    Heh. Indeed.

  8. liberalrob says:
    March 12, 2010 at 2:15 pm

    HTML fail.

    The Democrats’ scam becomes more transparent

  9. Hanuman38 says:
    March 13, 2010 at 11:20 pm

    Of course. Refusing to give millions of taxpayer dollars to greedy insurance companies is always “unrealistic”.