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It is interesting that the insurance industry is not required to take the hypocratic oath along with the Drs. who cure our sick.
*Insert random hypocratic / hypocritic oath joke here*
I really am not relishing the following scenario:
Me: :Jimmy how is your leg doing?"
Jimmy: "It is great dad the dr did a bang up job fixing it"
Me: "Great now use it to find us a new cardboard hut and shoe leather to boil"
What better way to prove the "moderate" Dems and Republicans right than by including a crap 2% public option that will not be tied to Medicare rates and will only include a small number of sick people (and thus have almost no bargaining power and higher tax-payer funded rates)?
And they think we're not on to them. Yeah right.
Looks like a pattern.
single payer is not even under discussion, public option will get filibustered in the Senate, and the "public option" has been watered down so much its barely worth even passing it.
if thats winning I'd hate to see losing.
This explains precisely why neither party is afraid of the constituency.
And they need to be afraid. They need to worry over their own hubris. Be creative.
I will never give that egomaniac the time of day.
I would support a 3rd party that embodied progressives in the Kucinich/Feingold/Sanders mold. That could be used by progressives as a significant bargaining chip, not necessarily as a way for the GOP to snake back into power.
But Nader? I won't even listen to his voice.
or, just plain dishonest, craven, political opportunist S.O.B.
-the very type we were led to believe we were voting against.
The thing that really hurt the Obama administration's chances of real reform, though, was when Judd Gregg pulled out of the nomination process.
Via Greenwald:
Thanks to the internet and dedicated bloggers like John and Glenn, we're increasingly 'in on the joke,' and we aren't laughing.
Oh yeah, I believe. Oops! Did any check Obama's sleeves? Couldn't have sleeves, he's got no clothes. Parcel of shit!!! We saw this exact same criminal shit for the last 9 years.
Expect more of this media cheerleading from the Village since the Obama/Goldman Sach's administration has openly declared its corporate loyalty on the backs of the poor and middle class. Just continuing the Reagan/Bush/Clinton/Bush legacy of "helping" by hurting the working class Americans. Also expect more kabuki tough talk followed by major bystanding.
Let's face it--it's hard work doing anything other than taking administration dictation, or on the flipside (Fox) making shit up. Journalism is dead.
But never fear, I'm sure tomorrow they'll be talking about the major rebuke to Obama's "socialist" (Ha!) policies when some of the races fall to the Republicans. And the administration will respond to this rebuke by moving ever rightward. Been there, done that.
Great expectations, enormous hype, but in the end just an ineffective sugar pill.
ObamaX: When the 'time is right,' it helps you to sleep instead.
Not to be outdone, SyFy channel is broadcasting every episode of the 1983 version of V. It's fun, all those hair styles we've left behind! And it helps dodge every issue before us today.
The aliens brought health care for the whole world. But then it turns out they look like canibal frogs and eat healthy people.
No politics there! Talk about a secret strategy! Hah! Gottaluvit!
I still think it is absurd and I am extremely disheartened. I cant wait for the articles proclaiming Obama's genius in dealing with civil rights.
In the end I am happy something is getting passed but what could have been both quicker, more cost effective, and allow OBama to go down in history with FDR will now be empty and a point of contention. He sold lasting greatness for current praise.
Fixed it for you.
But seriously, liberals shouldn't mind playing Cyrano de Bergerac and letting O get the credit as long as he doesn't try to pull this shit again.
I have been writing to encourage the 70 or so progressives to stand firm and let the leadership know publicly, once again, that all 70 will vote NO if this pig makes it to the floor for a vote.
Hey DLC and White House, where are you going to get the votes to pass a bill without the support of the 70 or so progressives you take for granted?
"Alan Grayson, the Liberals’ Problem Child"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/weekinreview/...
This is proving that Grayson is a problem for the republiCONs. They are scared of him.
I love it!
But in a way, the author is somewhat right, but for different reasons. He may be a problem for Democrats because he exposes them by contrast to him. HE'S the REAL Democrat. Sadly, most of the others are DINOs or at the very least, they are owned by and operate to serve the special interests.
Will we ever get the great ones like Roosevelt, Truman, etc?
I can't believe Obama has become such corporate tool.
WHY?????
I wonder what his mother would think.
I am sorry Mr. Aravosis--I am a fan of yours--but really. Do you really think that a President who took the ham-fisted railroading bullying approach would have done any better. That would be no.
I personally had more than enough of that during the Bush administration.