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Not Buying Any Of It (4.00 / 12)

Just a month ago, my congressperson held a much-belated town hall meeting where she repeatedly assured nearly 1000 people in attendance (most of whom were there testifying, demanding, clapping and hooting on behalf of some sort of single payer/Medicare for all, by the way!) that we could rest assured about the House...the House was our friend.  The House would produce a bill with a truly robust public option...the House would counter the disappointment of the Senate and Baucus with a plan that would serve all Americans well.  The House would take care of the people--not big insurance, not big pharma--but the people by taking to conference the strongest possible public option.  

As I think back to that, I'm nearly shaking with rage at what has just happened--thanks to our "friend, the House."

And from you, we get the utterly offensive message --really gross as a matter of fact--that we should understand and learn to appreciate the most regressive sell-out of women in my lifetime (a sell-out orchestrated by the goddamn Democratic leadership--headed up by a woman from San Francisco no less--to rack up the last couple of votes for a bill that was called here last night "watered down, watered down, watered down") because it wasn't really a sell-out of women after all.  No it was just the necessary casting of women--especially poor, desperate women-- as political footballs to pass a lame bill that is, lest we forget is "watered down, watered down, watered down."  Hey, just the nature of the beast, you say.  

And then, as if all this wasn't enough the folks you actually manage to condemn the strongest, the ones you are truly "appalled by,"  are the two progressive House Democrats who actually, you know, voted as progressive House Democrats.  My god...I have no words for this.

At this point, Progressive Caucus is a joke.  The Democratic party is a joke.   And the Health Insurance industry is having the laugh of its life.  

This is the most infuriatingly obsequious post I've ever read on Openleft.  How utterly disappointed and saddened I am that you thought to post this.

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by: lorij @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 20:24:58 PM CST