I'm going to keep this simple. Y'all have lost your minds. Judging from the sudden outcry fro you fairweather democratic supporters of health care reform who are SCREAMING "KILL THE BILL!"; "KILL THE BILL"; "KILL THE BILL".
I bet it's easy for you to say if you stand to be minially impacted, i.e. you have health care and felt it only necessary to pass the strongest health care reform bill possible to not only stake your claim in the pending historic bill but also to put egg in the face of the digusting centrist democracts and the despicable far right.
Well I have news for you, health care is bigger than your feelings.
For those clamoring to get health care, yes even if they still have to pay something for it, they'll find confidence in that health care reform is going in the right direction.
For those people who do not realize that in the near future they could be in need of what this bill will offer, they will be glad to know it exists when the time comes.
For those of you who think compromise of any sort on health care is a sell out, think about the history of civil rights for a moment for African Americans and women suffrage and you should get the picture that you have to start soewhere.
The bill, as compromised as it will get, has a chance to help a few of our less fortunate citizens. And, even before it reaches the President's desk it will go into conference between the House and the Senate --- There is a chance that soe things might get improved.
The irrational bitterness of those standing on the sidelines including my buddy Keith Olbermann, Howard Dean, Markos, et al., is directly related to the fact that the backstabbing Joe Liebermann is in greater control of the direction than they are --- What don't they (or you who are following their calls to "KILL HE BILL" do not understand? Liebermann has and will always be in a position to force compromise because he is a Senator with a vote. Sorry, Keith, Howard, and Markos are all talk --- They could not pass their perceived version of health care reform if they had ten times the number of supporters they have now because they can't vote on anything.
Listen, while I would love for all the goodies to be in the initial bill, I would say it's better than anything the other 43 Presidents were able to accomplish on this front. Considering American history, Lincoln did not end the disgusting treamment of blacks with his emancipation proclamation, it took a cool hundred or so years for congress to pass the Civil Rights bill of 1964, and the Voting Rights bill of 1965. Pass something now to get the ball rolling sooner than later.
Believe me with today's free flowing information, there will be pressure to improve health care from here forward. Unlike the days past the pressure lead to quicker action. Instead of decrying what should otherwise be a triumph, you that have lost your minds to bitterness, should be of the mindset that this is just the beginning of greater things to come.
Oh by the way, when did these ardent democratic supporters (especially, Keith and Markos) become single issue democrats. The economic recovery is gaining steam, unemployent is going down, the President is focusing on creating jobs, climate change and imploring banks to lend to small businesses and these clowns are talking about whether or not his decisions are reason for him to face primary challenges in 2012? If I swore, I would say WT-.
Have you lost your minds? Your outrage today will be silenced by iproving job numbers and any success stories of those who received health care under the pending reform. BTW, the weekly unemployment claims number comes out tomorrow at 8:30 am.
Health care is big, but jobs, yes jobs, are even bigger.
So, see you in 2012. In the meantime, why don't you vote republican in 2010 and let us know how that works out for ya! Oops, I just had my Sarah Palin moment.
Again, I ask, "Have you lost your minds"?
If you are not compelled by compassion for others or by personal need of health care reform then you are standing in the way of progress.
Leave it to a group of well educated (and I thought), well-informed progressive bloggers to start a rally cry to kill health care reform as if being successful will hurt the President, the Senate and the republicans.
You know damned well that all this will do is hurt your pride and possibly kill people who might have well had a chance to live with even marginally improved health care.
I survived rough streets because of good parenting. That's all I could ask of my loving parents --- moving to a lovely home in a safe suburbian neighborhood they could not provide, but their love was all I needed to do to succeed.
You guys do not understand a basic principle that the government is not here to give some faction of the nations citizens exactly what they want. They are balancing what they believe is in the best interest of all of the citizens in one vote.
As mad as you are, at least someone will get something out of the deal.
All aboard...next stop, job creation. Step in please and watch the doors behind you.