I am getting a little tired of these predictable tizzies we all work ourselves into being mad at the President and the White House everytime the media decides we should.
I mean, other than a very detailed analysis of statements made by the President and other members of the Administration over the weekend, what is so different today than this time last week?
Nothing much.
It seems to me, once again, instead of pushing for the public option, we find ourselves forming a circular firing squad of despair, mistrust, and disgust.
Again.
This is becoming kind of predictable.
I won't belabor the point, but I will say that I have seen this happen over and over again with issue after issue: the Stimulus package, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the War in Iraq.
Here is the only question I have for everyone who really and truly feels that the public option is important and essential:
Why do we consistently react(or overreact) as expected everytime the media trots this stuff out?
We have to stop and consider the sad truth:
- It may or may not be true.
- It is designed to make us feel defeated and cynical and exhausted.
- It once again takes the focus off of the problems of the status quo for-profit-health-rationing model and places it on infighting within the Progressive movement.
Now before anyone posts an angry rant about being able to complain about the President and me drinking WAY TO MUCH Obama Koolaid -
I'm not saying that the complaints aren't valid.
I'm saying the LOUD and WAILING responses are predictable, counterproductive, and desired by the oppostition.
It's why they LEAD with this thin gruel and IGNORE all the good news about reform consistently.
We can't afford to do the same. For every CON we have got to find a PRO, or we are truly done for.
The simple fact is the Congress is on recess, nothing has been changed or voted on yet, and the media has been consistently and predictably WRONG, WRONG, WRONG for going on a decade now.
This moment requires a strong and coordinated COUNTEROFFENSIVE, not a weeping and a gnashing of the teeth.
There will be plenty of time for that IF we fail, but let's not plan to fail.
Let's fight (the OPPOSITION and not just each other).
UPDATE: I just wanted to give an example of what I'm talking about . . . you know how when the media asks Congresswoman X if she agrees when Glenn Beck said Y, and she says, "I don't think we should be using that language, BUT President Obama hasn't presented his birth certificate yet."?
That is what I mean, express displeasure with our team, followed CLOSELY by a gut punch to the OTHER TEAM?
I'm just saying we keep leaving out the gut punch to the other team.