Saturday Night Special:"Historic"Vote Kills Health Care Reform for Another Generation »
Posted By berkeley 3 weeks, 1 day ago in Political OpinionNow, enough House Democrats had publicly committed to voting No on any bill this bad, that it could not pass. On July 30th, 57 of them signed a letter saying that any bill without a public option based on Medicare rates would be unacceptable. And therefore, this bill would be dead, and we could go into round 2 with a stronger demand for a bill that might actually save a significant number of lives .... Sadly, these people's word is as trustworthy as the promises of a health insurance company. (And when they prove that yet again, you can forget about progressive legislation or action on any issue in the months and years to come.)
And thus it came to pass on Saturday night, exactly as Swanson foretold. The 57 public-option stalwarts folded like a concertina; almost all of the few Democrats who ended up opposing the bill were so-called Blue Dogs, who resolutely oppose any public option at all. But as Swanson noted, by this time, the only thing that mattered to most "progressives" -- certainly the "serious ones," the ones who want to be "inside the tent," with liaisons with White House staffers, etc. -- was passing passing any bill at all:
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If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. Of all the enemies to public ...
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tehranchik3 weeks, 1 day ago
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Sorry, I just had to. fta:
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"If you listened carefully to what almost every politician said during the last election campaign -- and I emphatically include what Obama and all leading Democrats said -- and if you understood what they were saying, they told you over and over again that they would **** you in an endless variety of ways, until almost every last drop of your blood and almost every dollar you possess were gone. In their infinite kindness, they won't kill you, for they hope to extract still more from you, as your life and hope slowly ebb away.
They've kept their promise. They've ****** you yet again, just as they said they would.
And they are very far from done."
I think it's pretty much how we're all feeling.
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