I like it! It's about time Democrats fought back. For too long, Republicans demagogued any issue and Democrats lifted their pinky fingers as if drinking tea. It was as if it were all an academic exercise, cause we'd all get together after the battle at the country club over drinks anyway. Republicans fought as if it mattered, but Democrats did not.
In USA Today, Pelosi and Hoyer said this:
These disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differing views — but of the facts themselves. Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American.
USA Today, By Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer
No more Mr. and Ms. Nice Guy and Gal. It does matter and we will fight.
Americans have been waiting for nearly a century for quality, affordable health care. Health coverage for all was on the national agenda as early as 1912, thanks to Teddy Roosevelt's Bull Moose presidential run. Months after World War II came to an end in 1945, President Harry Truman called on Congress to guarantee all Americans the "right to adequate medical care and protection from the economic fears of sickness.
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This month, despite the disruptions, members of Congress will listen to their constituents back home and explain reform legislation. We are confident that our principles of affordable, quality health care will stand up to any and all critics.
Now — with Americans strongly supporting health insurance reform, with Congress reaching consensus on a plan, and with a president who ran and won on this specific promise of change — America is closer than ever to this century-deferred goal.
This fall, at long last, we must reach it.
USA Today, By Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer
So long as the insurance companies are squealing, reform is still real or "realish," anyway.
Rahm is a sideshow. Let's fight the real enemy.