Senate majority leader Harry Reid is now working to reconcile two competing healthcare proposals that have emerged from Senate committees so that the body as a whole can vote on a single measure. But, according to the NYT:
"Unnamed senior Democratic Senate aides told the Times that a combined bill will not contain a public option for insurance ... Reid is apparently interested in dropping the option in order to appeal to centrist Democrats and Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, the lone Republican who appears even slightly willing to vote in favor of the Democrats' proposals for overhauling the system."
WTF? Are the Dems just as determined as the Republicans to shed support? Are we living through some kind of race to the bottom with both sides aiming to lose as many votes as possible in 2010? Harry Reid is clearly a spineless f***ing stooge. And, nope, that's not just liberal rage speaking. Hell, nearly two-thirds of the country support the creation of a government-run insurance plan. Even Bill O'Reilly.
Can the news media now dispense with their misleading habit of always associating the Public Option with 'liberals' and 'progressives'? In reality, it's pretty much everyone (corporate shills and the teaparty 'tards excepted) who wants it. And pretty much everyone who will be rightfully pissed with weasels like Reid if the Public Option fails to make it out of the Senate alive.
It may be an oft repeated sentiment, but how about the Democrat majority quit their weird obsession with pleasing Olympia Snowe? How about they take off their kneepads and stand up to the health insurance company lobbyists? How about they start lifting a finger to rescue America's middle class who voted for the feckless losers to begin with?
Monday, September 28, 2009
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Nice post Fried. I have been missing your limey shaded take on American politics. Good to see you are back. So far the corporate IT stooges have neglected to block this new site. I will keep reading until the man pushes me under his thumb.
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