Point of Order: I've seen literally HUNDREDS of posts, by now, claiming that "it's time to get to work and hold our representatives' feet to the fire! And make darn sure they fix what's wrong with the bill!"
But...
NONE of those posts, none that I can remember reading, say which things, exactly, will supposedly be fixed later.
And, disturbingly, I've not yet received an answer when I've asked people, some of them VERY well informed, dozens of times, the following question:
There's been talk of making a new bill, to vote for or against a public option. But isn't it obvious that this will be nothing but theater? Because if not, if the President and the Speaker were going to ride herd and ensure the public option darn well passes, then wouldn't they have made darn sure it passed as part of THIS bill?
Isn't it plain, then, that our "representatives," having swept the public option under the rug in hushed tones, did so quite purposefully? And if they did so purposefully, knowing full well that 70% of us supported the public option, isn't it obvious that they intend to make hoopla with a fake public option bill, with a vote that's oh so close! darn it all, but that they'll allow to die?
Does anyone, at long last, have an answer for me as to why I'm wrong in stating that? I never heard the President or Speaker Pelosi bringing out in the open the public option's failure to make it into the final legislation. I never heard a clear speech, explaining to the nation why the public option was quietly hustled out the back door like a drunken partygoer, without a clear address to the huge majority of voters that wanted it. I'm open to any reasoned response, but I haven't heard ANY response from the usually vocal bill supporters on DKos, as many times as I've asked it, so I'm throwing it open on a diary.
And if that's the case, if the public option was purposefully swept under the rug, and will therefore be allowed to die if put forward in a bill, then what, exactly, ARE these "fixes" that we're supposedly about to fight for and get?
Some feel the public option was actually a bad idea. That's fine. What's NOT fine is having something that 70% of us supported shunted to the side by our legislators who know better, with absolutely no explanation as to why they know better, and what exactly it is that they know better.
Be all that as it may, however, even if we (though meekly, weakly, and self-destructively, in my opinion) accept such arrogance from Congress, we're still left with a question: what, exactly, are these "fixes" going to be, since the public option is going to be allowed to die, like single payer was (for some reason) without any clear, open debate from our "representatives"? Tell me. What do you expect? What do you want? For what fixes are we to agitate?