Nothing of significant enough substance will be achieved with the present balance of power in the Congress.
A more substantial Progressive Caucus plurality is required, to suppress the deeply entrenched traitorous anti-democratic Blue Dog/Republican monopoly corporate fascist fifth column.
I'm not wonky enough to be able to sort out all the pros and cons of all the HCR controversy.
All I know for sure is that whatever we actually get at this juncture will be far less than optimal, because the right still retains too much power in Congress, despite the "Democratic" Majority, and a larger Progressive Caucus.
On the other hand, anything that saves even a few million lives is better than the greater evil.
Frankly, I just don't see why some people are saying that killing this HCR bill will in any way prevent revisiting the issue after the midterm elections.
On the other hand, neither do I see why passing this bill would in any way prevent further fleshing it out and improving it, after the midterms.
That said, the struggle continues.
We are NOT going to get what we want or what we need, with the present balance of power.
People need to accept that realpolitik.
That does not mean we should just give up. It just means continued, protracted, more resolute struggle, going forward. Revolution requires no less, anywhere.
What matters, above anything else, is what happens in 2010 and then in 2012, in terms of voter turnout.
If a fairly good HCR gets passed, hey, that's great, and it should encourage people to vote Democratic, to further improve on that, and to deal with so many other urgent issues.
But if the best we can get is a really shitty, useless HCR, I fail to see how that would be anything other than also a very good reason for a lot more people to turn out and vote Democratic, to correct that situ.
Either way, the call must go out, to purge the traitorous Blue Dogs and suppress what remains of the Republicans, democratically, electorally, for their practice on this issue, and everything else.
It seems like a no-brainer to me, which makes a lot of the screeching and howling over this and other issues, seem...contrived.
All the hubris over this or that issue seems...duplicious, and disingenuous, to the extent that it poses any likely prospect, or material reason, to not turn out and vote for more better Democrats in 2010 and 2012.
Boycott or splitting the vote will just hand the power back to the Republicans, and we will all then be even more totally screwed, no two ways about it.
I think the American people are smart enough to see this, and will again reject the jive "left" calls for boycott and splitting, and will again "vote with their feet", by marching to the polls, to purge more Blue Dogs and Republicans, to get the juice that we need...to either call Obama's "make me" bluff, if that's what it is, and/or to give him the backup he needs to more substantially and successfully implement his programs.
That's the only material way we are going to improve the situ, on any given issue.
People are not stupid.
A lot of the hubris and hype that's flooding this and other venues, seems mainly an attempt to sow cynical demoralization and defeatism, toward suppressing likely Democratic voter turnout, by Republican sock puppets, or "leftist" hacks, trying to peel off people for their jive boycott and splitting lines.
We just need to stay the course, and keep pointing out to the electorate that the only way we are going to be able to surge forward into the 21st Century, for justice and peace, to save the planet, is to further purge and suppress the right, and to more substantially seize the popular democratic power, in 2010 and 2012.
The ice caps are melting, and there's no more time for posturing and posing and rhetorical jive.
Bring the Better Democrats!
All Out for 2010 and 2012!
All Power to the People!