Hey, you guys!! Were you here last November? I was. Did you hear?
YOU WON!!! AND YOU WON BIG!!! You've got both houses of Congress and the White House!!
What do you think the Republicans would be doing with this kind of power-oh, I'm sorry; we just lived through eight years of that-we know what they would do.
What are you showing us about how you wield power when you have it? We elected you last fall to effect CHANGE. You need to show that you are responding to US-not to the Republicans or the lobbyists-DOLLARS DON'T VOTE...WE DO!!
Ed Shultz probably ended his television career this morning on Doucheboro's MSNBC program when he said that he believed Cheney would like to see the country attacked so that he could launch his "I Told You So" campaign. Just before that kamikaze statement (which I happen to agree with; but that’s grist for another posting) the conversation was about your apparent unwillingness to exercise the power you finally, finally have to fix our health care system.
His main point was that, constitutionally, you have the ball and you are standing on the goal line with nothing between you and the end zone but your unwillingness to step across. He said (correctly, I believe) to expect nothing from you because you (on both sides of the aisle) are getting your pockets lined by “Big Pharma”, the Insurance Industry and anyone else making money hand over fist by standing between us and good health care for everyone.
He said, “Where’s our Tom Delay?” and then he said, "The President needs to know; the people are with him."
And so we are. President Obama, are you our Tom Delay? You have nothing to lose by stepping up now and doing a little bitch-slapping. We’ve got your back-go after your party and make them do the right thing. We’re working out here right now to make that happen.
What, will you be a one-term President? Will you lose Congress? Will the people who elected you to fix the health care system vote you out when you fix it?
The Insurance Industry, the Pharmaceutical Industry, those forces that have their fangs firmly planted in the nation’s jugular-are arrayed against our having adequate health care freed from the slavery of their profits; and they will work to defeat you and anyone who puts our interests above theirs.
So what? Do it anyway.
I’ll say it again-DOLLARS DON’T VOTE…WE DO!! And if you do the right thing and somehow we forget that you did just what we wanted you to do, a generation from now your legacy will be that of having done the right thing, and having paid a price for doing it-there are worse fates.