Hillary Clinton warned us about this, that Obama wasn't tough enough to play dirty with the Republicans.
And boy was she right, it's turning out. Hillary Clinton would not be playing this stupid game of pattycake with wolves in sheepcloth like Barack Obama is with the nutjob right on healthcare and all other matters right now, if she were in office.
If Hillary Clinton were in office right now, you know what would be happening? She would be taking the scrotum sacks of wingnuts like Chuck Grassley and Blue Dogs like Kent Conrad and turning them in a vise and saying, "There is NO safe word, you minority status, election-losing FUCKS. You are at my total fucking MERCY right now on healthcare, and whether you want to come on board or not, we're going to ram this public option right up your motherfucking Glenn Beck, Rush-loving ass. You hear me, you hillbilly motherfuckers?"
Hillary would know this:
- I have all the votes and more that I need.
- I have all the votes and more that I need.
- I have all the votes and more that I need.
And that would be it. Public option health reform would be the law of the land through reconciliation if Hillary were in office, and there would not be a GOD DAMN MOTHERFUCKING THING Glenn Beck and Rush and all their other self-loathing shit-for-brains crowd would be able to do about it.
And you know what would happen after that happened? Hillary would turn the tide of history, people would respect her strength and courage in the end and people would come to LOVE a government run health care system.
Anybody who wants to disagree with me with "Oh well, Obama needs to play the center and not offend them", just take a look some time at FDR's speech to the Democratic convention after his first eight years in office, when he was being besieged with one right-wing lie after another on his plans/programs to that point, and he said, in essense, "I welcome their hatred."
FDR was re-elected, an is seen today as a man of strength who told the other side to shove it and stuck to his beliefs.
Barack Obama is being seen, rightfully, today as a man who wants to appease the unappeasable, who thinks people like Rush Limbaugh - an oracle to a VAST MINORITY OF PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY, ABOUT 15 MILLION IN A COUNTRY OF 300 MILLION - will play nice with him if he just gives in a little to their "balanced" approach to the health debate, and all other things.
Hillary was definitely not perfect (I didn't vote for her, I voted for Obama and worked my ASS off for him). But I see her point now: Obama has no balls.