President Barrack Obama, SIR, we, the far left wing, the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, got you elected.
Congress you listen up too. We, the liberal progressive wing of the Democratic Party got you elected in 2006 and 2008. NOT the DLC. The DLC is what got you unelected in 2000, 2002, and 2004.
Remember "You dance with the one that brought ya".
SIR, in regards to healthcare reform and the public option:
We're different from the Far Right Wing of the Republican Party. Oh yes we are very different indeed.
Political pundits of all stripes keep trying to paint the Left Wing of the Democratic Party as crazy people who are "way out there". Don't believe them. We are not way out there.
President Obama SIR, look at us and look at the Far Right Wing of the GOP. See a difference? See the "birthers" and the "deathers"? Sir, did you see the republicans at the town hall meetings mocking the disabled Americans who showed up to plead for the public option? Did you see the hate and ignorance of these people? Those people are mouthbreathing vitriolic hateful fucktards that deserve no consideration from Democrats whatsoever. We saw them Sir, and we are not them.
Decent people should not even contemplate making deals with Republicans after what transpired this summer. At this point, bi-partisianship should only consist of Republicans begging us to let them join our healthcare bill which includes a robust public option. After it would pass and go into effect, it would go down in history as one of the best bills ever passed for Americans. We know this. So let the republicans join us. Or not. But don't waste any more time chasing after them. That's just weak.
We, the Far Left Wing of the Democratic Party are as far away from the Right Wing Crazies as you can get. We're the polar opposite. We are the intellegentsia.
We're the college graduates and college professors. We're the science teachers and math teachers and english teachers. We're the lawyers and the journalists. We're the office workers and hotel workers and working mom's. We're the ones that started screaming when George Bush dragged this country into a useless and needless war of choice with Iraq which led to over 3,000 US soldiers dying needlessly. Remember us?
We're the ones that got YOU, President Obama, through a very tough primary season, and then elected. We're the ones that got 58 Democratic Senators elected and 2 independents (well just one independent actually, because none of us voted for Joe Lieberman". We were smart enough to see right through Lieberman's BS. And we're the ones that got 256 Democrats elected to the House. We're Michael Moore and Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow. We're the smart people.
We're not Glen Beck stupid and crazy. We know that single payer is the best way forward and we know that the USA is the only industrialized country in the world without some form of single payer. We know our healthcare system is not #1 in the world. Right wing crazies don't know that. And we know President Obama, that you bartered away the "single payer" chip even before the poker game began.
So know SIR, that we know that a healthcare reform bill signed into law, containing no public option is not real healthcare reform at all. We know that the public option "chip" can not be bartered away.
We know that none of the bills being considered is even close to universal. We know that any plan that passes at this juncture will still leave 10 to 20 million Americans without healthcare. So we know that a healthcare plan that also leaves out a "public option" will be nothing but a guaranteed trillion dollar giveaway to the very healthcare industry that already provides woefully inadequate healthcare for millions of Americans at double and triple the cost that it should. We know, at a minimum, a public option must be included in any healthcare plan that receives your signature or things will get worse not better. Because the healthcare industry will then have a greenlight to raise prices even higher since they won't have any competition. And please Sir, don't tell us to trust that they will do the 'right' thing. They won't. We know it, and You know it.
We also know "Reconcilation" means no public option. And we know that a House Plan with a public option and a Senate Plan without a public option, will whittle down in conference to a plan without a public option. Because that' how it works.
President Obama, I know you'll be on television tonight and I've heard you are going to speak forcefully once again for a Public Option. Please do. But know this. Know we're not stupid.
If Max Baucus and the Senate pass a bill without a public option and you sign it, then You will have lost the hearts of the progressives that brought you to power. We will be left thinking that You SIR, and the Democrats in congress were somehow in the pockets of the health insurance industry all along, and that like good little corporate owned lackeys, you forgot about the American people, and you rolled over and obediently gave your corporate masters everything they wanted.
President Obama, at this point, before your speech tonight, I still have faith that you and the Senate will do the right thing and pass a bill with a public option. But if you don't Sir,
there will be hell to pay!