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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

progressives for palin

we are stunned, but not surprised.

we knew things were bad when obama threw the lgbt community under the bus.

we shuddered when he refused to close gitmo.

we were stricken when he announced the afghan surge.

now we are completely in despair, since the democratic majority in both houses and the democratic president have cowered before the mighty lieberman and cried out, "thank you sir, may we have another?"

and on monday night, democratic senators emerged from a tense 90-minute closed-door session and suggested that they were on the verge of bowing to mr. lieberman’s main demands: that they scrap a plan to let people buy into medicare beginning at age 55, and scotch even a fallback version of a new government-run health insurance plan, or public option.

mr. lieberman said he believed that the medicare expansion was off the table, though he did not get any guarantee. “not an explicit assurance, no,” he said. “but put me down tonight as encouraged at the direction in which these discussions are going.”

mr. lieberman could not be happier. he is right where he wants to be — at the center of the political aisle, the center of the democrats’ efforts to win 60 votes for their sweeping health care legislation. for the moment, he is at the center of everything — and he loves it.
do you know who doesn't love it? progressives.

the kos kids are cantankerous. the firedoglakers are furious. dr. dean is disgusted. blogtopia is boiling mad, and yes we coined that phrase.

there are centrists who say we should hold our noses and support this watered-down version. but we agree w/rep. lynn woolsey, who said on msnbc that this bill w/o a public opition (or at least a medicare buy-in) might be health insurance reform, but it's certainly not health care reform.

we also agree w/the commentor pinson on greg sergent's blog who says:

if the senate bill passes with mandates forcing everyone to buy insurance yet leaving in place coverage limits – the wave of medical bankrupticies will keep right on rolling. the democratic party will own medical bankruptcy like bush owned iraq. it’s a political black hole of epic proportions. and after 2010, majority leader mcconnell will pummel obama with it every day.
the democrats in congress apparently believe they can totally alienate their progressive base and still get elected.

we are afraid they are mistaken.

it won't be pretty, but we can foresee the mid-terms turning both houses a little (or perhaps even a lot) red. the dem base will probably stay at home, or vote third party.

and this mis-step on health care reform, along w/his previous back-peddling on other campaign promises, might even be bad news for obama in 2012.

paging president palin...
posted by skippy at 3:46 PM |

5 Comments:

My personal opinion as it stands now is that the wingnuts of the GOP have a strong chance to sweep. It's not that they are more popular it's just that in reality they have the desire to shape and control not only their party but the very voice of politics. I can't imagine the irreversible damage that will come when it the GOP is in control again -- from environmental, to human and individual rights, to the courts, to massive shift of wealth from the what's left of the middle class to the rich, from America to China. But the Dems have done little enough to let anyone believe they're even in charge of anything.
commented by Anonymous Anonymous, 3:24 PM PST  
Dear God, do not wish that Crazy Bitch on us. We Dems must go out and vote in droves. We have to get rid of the Blue Dogs and only elect progressive, liberal candidates.
Could you even imagine what that kind of power would enable Plain to do? She already has her little Theocracy all lined up. And her puppet masters would never be able to control her. Just look at the past campaign!
Primary the turn coat bastards. And pressure like hell to get rid of Rahm. e weilds too much influence over Obama. If Obama had the rigt Chief of Staff, we would have already passed an acceptable health care bill.
And last but not least, Obama and the other progressives could pull their own bait and switch. Reconciliation.
You can always dream, ca't you?
commented by Blogger mary b, 3:31 PM PST  
Hey. Can't we just get beyond this Senate 60 vote nonsense and do the reconciliation thing?

50 votes, plus Joe Biden.

And if reconciliation rules require it to sunset in 5 years, then we have something to campaign on in 2012 to renew it.

Give us a public option and protect women's health care services.

Surely we can get 50 votes in the Senate for that.
commented by Blogger mahakal, 3:51 PM PST  
depressing
commented by Blogger tomitron, 4:26 PM PST  
The Obama surge-- would that be the April 2009 21,000 troops or the 2010 30,000 troops for $30 billion?

It is all sooo confusing!

It does concern me that that so many dems & progressives are talking about throwing in the towel on voting at all.

You KNOW that is music to Palin's ears, right?

WTF is happening here Obama has a majority in BOTH houses, but can't get it done???

LIEberman is even skankier than I thought.... he is an egomaniac.....

What a frickin' mess.
commented by Blogger Fran, 5:51 PM PST  

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