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Right now I'm so angry I could punch things, fuck this bill, fuck Rahm Emanuel, fuck the senate Democrats, fuck the republicans, and fuck Barack Obama.
Don't like my position? I don't care! I didn't spend thousands of dollars and thousands of hours of my time registering democrats to vote, fundraising, going door to door, and driving people to the polls for this shit. I didn't and all of you apologists can kiss my ass.
I worked to make my country a better place. I worked to in the hopes that I was taking my country back from the corporations and elite that would have us all be peasants.
I'm not giving up, I'll never give up, but I'll be damned if I'm going to be lied to and shit on and then be forced to say I like it.
Nadar agrees with Dean and so do I. And while half of the folks here want to just lap it up and say giving him time and bad Joe Lieberman, to you I say, "Wake up!" Lieberman is the fall guy, if you are too blind to see that, I feel sorry for you.
To quote the always awesome FDR, "In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it
happens, you can bet it was planned that way."
And while quoting Nader and publishing an article by him might be seen as counter productive, I don't care. Doesn't make Dean or Nader any less right.
While I haven't giving up on Obama yet, and that is a weary and sad "yet," I will try my best to make him do what he promised. And he certainly didn't promise mandates and fines, in fact, I didn't vote for Hillary because of her position on mandates. Had I known that was all Obama's Senate bill would offer I certainly wouldn't have wasted my time.
Also this bill is a nightmare, when people are even poorer because they were forced to buy shitty insurance, who will they blame, the republicans that voted for it or the democrats that lied and said it was going to help? People like me are bitching because we want things to get better, we worked hard for these majorities, and to watch the corporate democrats piss it all away is too much to bear!
Edited to add a good quote I found at Huffington Post:
"The consequences are too dire should we NOT get this done.'
I'm honestly getting tired of this phrase. It was used to support the invasion of Iraq, the escalation in Afghanistan, TARP, the government guaranteeing every loss on Wall Street, and NOW we're told that the Senate Health Care Bill must be pushed through because it's just too awful if we don't."