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    Dec212009

    Breaking With the President

    I don’t think Howard Dean and Russ Feingold should expect a Christmas Card from Rahm Emmanuel:

    The administration is to blame for the public option’s exclusion from healthcare legislation, former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Monday.

    “Yes,” Dean flatly answered during an appearance on MSNBC when asked if the Obama administration was culpable for losing the public option.

    Democratic leaders in the Senate removed the provision from their healthcare bill in a concession to win centrist Democrats’ votes.

    But liberal activists and even Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) have begun to focus blame on President Barack Obama, faulting him for never having thrown the full weight of the White House behind the controversial insurance option.

    “I’ve been fighting all year for a strong public option to compete with the insurance industry and bring healthcare spending down,” Feingold
    said Sunday in a statement. “Unfortunately, the lack of support from the administration made keeping the public option in the bill an uphill struggle.”

    Dean has been locked in a public scrum with the Obama administration since calling earlier this month for senators to kill the healthcare bill without the public option or a plan allowing people ages 55-64 to buy into Medicare.

    Below that same article, some wag commented:

    Dean is wrong, this is a great program. People of my class will make billions when the peasants are required to pay us for health care we will never deliver. Most of the peasants who don’t have health care can’t afford to pay the deductibles, so will never use the plans they are forced to buy or be fined. My class is deserving of all this, having inherited from robber barons because of our superior genes. And those who worry that the working poor may no longer have enough to eat if they are forced into this, my wife Marie has it all figured out, “If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.” Amen I say
     
     BY Louis XIV on 12/21/2009 at 14:50
    That’s why there is a schism—Obama Incorporated pays lip service to taking care of the American people, and then rams home a Corporatist agenda. Now, I’m all for a corporatist agenda—except that, it’s a Democrat one, not a Republican one.
     
    How ironic, though. President Obama sold the American people a bill of goods, and, in about a year, his real agenda has been revealed to the very intelligent, but self-centered and hysterical, loonybin left that helped him beat back Hillary Clinton. Those people won’t easily return to his fold. They are disgusted with the process, and the process itself is so broken, it is quickly driving more and more people away.
    So stands American Political Discourse, circa, Christmas 2009. It’s broken, it’s sick, and no one should expect good government any time soon. Sell Hope and Change to some other demographic, Mr. President. Smart people aren’t buying your crap anymore.

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