Single-Payer healthcare has long been a dead issue, and we’ve been told that a very flawed “public option” is the best we can do. Looks like even that’s gonna be a no-go now, as it appears that the White House is ready to abandon the public option, in favor of a gift to insurance companies that will make Medicare Part D look like socialized medicine.
It is more important that health-care legislation inject stiff competition among insurance plans than it is for Congress to create a pure government-run option, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said Monday.
This is no doubt part of a “stealth” plan on the behalf of President Obama – who once declared that single-payer was the way to go, but we first had to take control of the House, Senate, and White House in order to make it happen – to sneak his progressive agenda in through the back door. Stealth, of course, because – to the uneducated – it certainly looks as if Obama is unwilling to stand up and fight for much of anything. Even when public opinion is on his side. Maybe that’s being practical. Bill Clinton couldn’t get national healthcare, so Obama’s afraid to push for it. Or maybe he just figures he needs to completely enrage “we the people” so that we’ll force Congress (and him) to do the right thing.
Seems he once promised to fight for equal rights (if not marriage) for gay people, too, and to get rid of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” and was finally shamed into granting some rights to federal employees.
I thought he was also a proponent of open government, but he seems to think we aren’t entitled to know who gets face time in the White House (we wouldn’t want to find out that lobbyists from the healthcare industry are on the visitor list). And we can’t investigate the people who tortured or approved torture in our names, because, well, I guess because we just can’t handle it.
Oh, I know. Nothing he can do with the Senate DINOs in office. 51 Democrats? Not enough. 55? Nope. 60? Nah. Not with Harry “I’m not good at twisting arms” Reid running the show (not sure he understands the “leader” part of his Senate Majority Leader title).
Oh, if LBJ was President, he’d goddamn sure ram his agenda through with a House majority and 60 Senators, you can be sure of that (he wouldn’t have a damn Portuguese Water Dog, either; too hard to pick up by the ears). Especially with public opinion on his side. Then again, LBJ took a conflict he inherited in Vietnam and escalated it, afraid of looking as if he’d “lost” there. And that was crazy.
About as crazy as fighting a war in Afghanistan would be. Just ask the Russians.
Nothing about the Michael Jackson memorial today? WTF is up with your priorities, PJ? The world must stop for the King of Pop.
Tell all those poor people who were hoping for some debate on public option to lay there and bleed quietly while the procession passes. If they need a role model, tell them to watch Harry Reid. He’s really good at it.
(Just for the record, I do like a lot of Michael Jackson’s music, but this shit is waaaaaaaay out of hand. Enough already.)
Oh, yeah. I forgot. Michael Jackson is still dead. A nation mourns. :yawn:
oh my god…hot topics on the View, and Elizabeth Hasselbeck is going TO THE MAT for Palin!! eeekkkkk…
I actually came over because I got a google search that said that the morning seditionists were 10 years old!! I thought, MY God, Time sure is passing faster than I thought….so I was reading PJ’s post from yesterday AM and I thought …well, Mornign Sedition wasnt on when it was 9-11…right?…then I thought I was losing my mind….and then I realized that it was PJ’s Mom’s RIP anniversary!!! OHHHH…
so sorry for that sad anniversary PJ…and Google works in mysterious ways….sometimes makes me feel like I am insane.
For seditionistas in the NYC area, Marc is performing his divorce show tomorrow night in the city…its invitation only so you have to ask him for a ticket….Im not gonna make it, but thought Id mention it.
Will is in a camp that is early AM and I have to pick him up…lots of running round here this week.
Im also tired of divorce…my friends and also Marc’s….
Considering what Ive seen lately, marc got off easy. It could have been worse!!
I guess that in this one case, once youve heard it, youve heard it…
Oh, and guys…just wanted to make sure that you all know that maron and seder are co-hosting Ring o Fire this weekend! Set yr replay a/v’s etc…
The MJ antidote
Do It Again: One Man’s Quest to Reunite the Kinks
:banana: :yippee:
Stevie Wonder today @ MJ’s funeral.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASfMhsr_QxA&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emusikizme%2Ecom%2Fstevie%2Dwonder%2Dperformance%2Dat%2Dmichael%2Djackson%2Dfuneral%2F&feature=player_embedded
vern, yr funny!
Now I missed Marc…have to pick up Will…oh well…MJ’s hysterically crying family won out. I dont like the persecution complex there….why didnt we all just leave him alone??
well, he made a huge spectacle of himself and I think that if he had taken 10 years off and just raised those kids in dubai or wherever, he would have had the privacy that he supposedly craved. He didnt really crave privacy; thats the rub.
Melina
I went to the link about the plastic ocean and watched the video.
:omg:
Decided I needed some emotional relief so watched some of the MJ funeral instead.
CNN’s idea of “Breaking News.”
Oh, and guys…just wanted to make sure that you all know that maron and seder are co-hosting Ring o Fire this weekend! Set yr replay a/v’s etc…
Comment by Melina — July 7, 2009 @ 11:44 am
Melina, thanks for the tip! I don’t think Marc mentioned it today during BRL, or if he did, I missed it.
I saw a little bit of the MJ funeral. Why was everyone wearing sunglasses? Afraid to show tears??
MARS ATTACKS!
Hello all! Hey Melina!!
Nice to see you here, Melina. I hope all is well.
We drove home from Burlington, today. Even the dogs are tired, Had a nice if wet vacation. But it is very nice to be home.