So is the “happy note” ending of the disgusting titled article on the compromise with the Blue Dogs
Liberals gag over health deal
…he crunches numbers in their respective districts and concludes that
40 of the 49, or 82%, won their races by double digits.
and
many of these Democrats are safer than they contend. People need to start challenging them on this.
So, we have a double hoax, paid for pharma which will give us a crappy law – in the one and only political time when a meaningful reform might have been enacted. And that’s why the ugly specter of misogyny had to be raised against Hillary by all those in the media that propped W – to make sure that it wouldn’t happen.
So, the Progressives went into a room and the key has been thrown away, and no one remembers where that room ever was…
9 comments
July 30, 2009 at 7:52 am
Grail Guardian
The only thing that will work here is for constituents to contact the Blue Dogs and let them know they are not safe if they vote for Obama Death Care.
In my area, it worked for Cap & Trade on Eric Massa (who although not a Blue Dog basically has voted for every other dime Obama has asked for before and since that vote), and I’m doing my part to let him know this debacle is another way of handing his seat back to the Republicans next year.
If you live in one of these districts (or one where the Democrat is vulnerable), for goodness sake Speak Up before it’s too late!
July 30, 2009 at 10:03 am
edgeoforever
Eric Massa was a Clarkie – he is a good guy.
August 1, 2009 at 11:40 am
Grail Guardian
By and large, I agree. But he’s voted a little too much along party lines for me to stop threatening to replace him next year when he spends money like a drunken sailor.
July 30, 2009 at 11:16 am
Butters
FYI – from the Black Agenda Report blog
Top Ten Ways To Tell Your President & His Party Aren’t Fighting For Health Care For Everybody
July 30, 2009 at 11:17 am
Butters
http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/top-ten-ways-tell-your-president-his-party-arent-fighting-health-care-everybody
July 30, 2009 at 11:52 am
cj
The Blue Dogs are what they are, and Emmanuel knew it, but recruited them anyway.
The problem is Obama, who squandered billions and billions in bailout money for banks & Wall Street instead of focusing on foreclosures and jobs, and now, a few months later, tries to sell health “insurance” reform based on nothing but his word.
People aren’t buying it anymore. They want facts, not promises, and Obama simply doesn’t measure up. I don’t trust him, they don’t trust him, so the Blue Dogs aren’t going to stick their necks out.
Hillary gave more substance in an off-hand remark on MTP, than Obama’s given in all his pressers & town meetings:
Back in ’93 we had to keep making the case over and over again. Well, now we know costs will continue to rise. For everybody who has insurance, there is no safe haven, their costs will go up. We lose insurance for 14,000 people a day. We know that our system, left unchecked, is going to bankrupt not just families and businesses, but our country.
Speaking of trust, I just heard that Sgt. Crowley’s bringing a union lawyer with him to the O’s picnic today…smart move!
July 30, 2009 at 12:53 pm
imustprotest
People are now wondering, in fact they seem surprised that the “great orator” can’t seem to sell this bill. It doesn’t surprise me, just listen to him speak about it! He doesn’t even understand it so how can he explain it to anyone else? We saw this during the debates, and at his town halls during the primaries, he’s a clueless empty suit. He’s a slacker not a wonk and right now, at this critical point in our history, we needed a wonk, a wonk with compassion and vision. We needed Hillary Clinton.
July 30, 2009 at 8:13 pm
cj
Obama’s always been an empty suit, but now it’s so obvious, OpEds are calling for help on his behalf:
SIC THE BIG DOG ON THE BLUE DOGS
Over at her Daily Beast, our former editor Tina Brown has a very good suggestion for President Obama: unleash Bill Clinton to sweet-talk and arm-wrestle the Blue Dogs into dropping their obstruction of health-care reform.
Now that Tina mentions it, why hasn’t Obama done this already? Is it because he wouldn’t want his ex-rival’s large-egoed husband to get credit for saving his bacon? If that’s the reason—if that’s even a reason—then shame on him. Given the horrific structural hurdles health care has to surmount (which I go on about at length in this week’s Comment), this President needs all the help he can get. And it’s hard to think of anyone whose help would help more—especially since, as Tina notes, nobody has thought more about how to avoid the mistakes that were made last time than Mr. Clinton. Except maybe Mrs. Clinton.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/hendrikhertzberg/2009/07/sic-the-big-dog-on-the-blue-dogs.html
Yeah, like that’s ever going to happen. Obama would rather go down in flames.
August 1, 2009 at 11:29 pm
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