http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6839924Oh my.
The Bostonian Drunkard, who doesn't draw like he used to; only a few primitives showed up at this bonfire:
WilliamPitt (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-23-09 10:52 AM
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Not Dead Yet
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Columnist
Friday 23 October 2009
For the last several weeks, politicians, political action groups and pundits have been declaring the "Public Option" portion of President Obama's health care reform push all but dead. Republicans, with typical shoulder-to-shoulder unanimity, have been shouting it down with bull-throated ferocity. Well-heeled interest groups have been spraying the airways with anti-public-option propaganda.
Democrats, of course, have been going 17 directions at once and, as usual, gotten exactly nowhere; they're for it, against it, sorta-kinda-maybe-yes-no, oh, please, somebody tell me what to think. Even President Obama, who promised a public option approximately 12,000 times in the run-up to this debate, has been sending increasingly blah blah blah blah blech.....
jobycom (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-23-09 10:54 AM
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1. Oh. I thought you were griping about your marriage already.
Tom Rinaldo (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-23-09 10:59 AM
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2. Nice piece Will but...
...I at first assumed your title meant that opposition to stripping the Public Option our of Senate legislation wasn't dead yet, despite Reports from yesterday that Reid was leaning toward including it.
I am pleased that we pulled the Public Option back from the brink of death, but this story is a moving target. I can't exactly say I'm happy, because I'm still concerned.
WilliamPitt (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-23-09 11:05 AM
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3. "How all this will eventually shake out remains deeply uncertain..."
Agreed.
franksolich suspects it's going to shake out like a.....big fat "nothing."
byronius (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-23-09 11:11 AM
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4. Sometimes it seems as if we may muddle through after all.
Demeter (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-23-09 12:44 PM
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5. Don't Settle For That! Push Medicare E for Everybody
and then straight on into Single Payer Universal!
It's called Momentum! Use It!
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Fri Oct 23rd 2009, 02:10 PM
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Waiting for treatment
How healthcare reform will create
waiting lines for specialists
The above's the whole bonfire; like I said, the Bostonian Drunkard doesn't draw like he used to.
