I'm not one normally to really engage in criticism with the Democratic party, but when I just got a fundraising call from the DNC to help contribute to a National Media Campaign to support "Health Reform" I had to turn them down. Respectfully, I declined any support, and the wallet is shut until I see someone put the Baucus' and Conrad's in their place where they belong, at the back of the room instead of head of the table.
If the DNC or even Obama thinks they'll get my support for some craptacular effort that ends up hurting everyone in the process but the Insurance Companies, they have another thing coming...
We're worked so hard as supporters and donors to build what they've always said they'd need, a true blue majority with little doubt of whose in control, yet they compromise their ideas for no reason at all and disappoint their voters.
2010 ain't gonna be purty if Baucus and others are allowed to set the agenda. The DNC and Obama need to wake up and cut some nuts off. I saw where Jay Rockafeller was called into the WH today for a talking to by Obama... Why isn't Baucus and Conrad there instead, and why does it take a pseudo-Dem like Specter to bring up Single-Payer?
We built this Majority and they're intent on destroying it for good... I won't be party to that and I sure as hell won't invest one more red cent to see this crap become law.