Good Tuesday to all:
Yes Sausage making is a messy process. Ask anyone who grew up in the Wisconsin. Fact of the matter is that we all need to demand single payor as loud and as often as we can. We don't need to negotiate against ourselves as some spineless democrats have been doing, and this includes the whitehouse, from the very beginning of this debate. I dont know where this all ends up but I do think that when the final bill is from the senate finance committee we will know the level of the betrayal. Alas, fight and win an insurance bail out and begin today the movement for single payor.
Dan
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
Maximum Delay Baucus and more...
This is a bit sarcastic so tell your children to leave the room.
No one should be surprised. Health-care reform from the moment Obama was elected has been firmly in control of the DLC (Democratic Leadership Council). There is no other way to explain the lame administration response until the 11th hour and that response was a position to the center of the debate. I expect we will get reform but we may choke to death trying to swallow it. Maximum Delay Baucus was and continues to be the perfect shill for DLC politics. Disgusting, but this go around we are stuck. The fact is just as soon as Obama signs a reform bill we need to organize to change it. And then there is Afghanistan bleeding our blood and treasury for the next 5, 10, 15, 20, 50 years; you choose. And then there is cap and trade... Health-care reform will not much matter to my grand kids if the planet is not livable. (See 350.org) Progressives must understand that our movement forward NEVER! ends in the face of those who value power and profit over people. It is a historical fact that they will never relinquish this power or profit without our sacrifice.
Dan
No one should be surprised. Health-care reform from the moment Obama was elected has been firmly in control of the DLC (Democratic Leadership Council). There is no other way to explain the lame administration response until the 11th hour and that response was a position to the center of the debate. I expect we will get reform but we may choke to death trying to swallow it. Maximum Delay Baucus was and continues to be the perfect shill for DLC politics. Disgusting, but this go around we are stuck. The fact is just as soon as Obama signs a reform bill we need to organize to change it. And then there is Afghanistan bleeding our blood and treasury for the next 5, 10, 15, 20, 50 years; you choose. And then there is cap and trade... Health-care reform will not much matter to my grand kids if the planet is not livable. (See 350.org) Progressives must understand that our movement forward NEVER! ends in the face of those who value power and profit over people. It is a historical fact that they will never relinquish this power or profit without our sacrifice.
Dan
Monday, September 7, 2009
Open letter to President Obama
President Obama:
“he came to Washington to "fight for others, not for myself,"… “We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future."…(Van Jones)
Mr. President have you forgotten what you promised us during our historic campaign. This quote is not yours but I will be dammed if it was not the message of your campaign.
Are you seriously saying now we must be good soldiers and accept half a loaf that smells of the decay of political triangulating?
CNN in a survey suggests that, by 13 points, Americans think the Democrats rather than the Republicans would do a better job handling the economy and Medicare. The Democrats have a 9 point advantage on health care.
Mr. President in this historical moment you carry the heavy burden of deciding the life and death issues for people who have been ravaged too long by a health care system that says the profit in a dollar is more valuable than the natural unalienable right to health care. I could state the overwhelming statistics which you already are aware of but doing this will not bring back the countless faces no longer with us or plunged into economic despair over a failed system.
This fight is not new. It started with the Declaration of Independence:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
and the Constitution:
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
It continued with the fight for public education and libraries fundamental to a free society healthy in mind and spirit. It continued with the abolition of slavery. It continued with the enactment of child labor law and the right to unionize. It continued with the enactment of social security. It continued with the enactment of civil rights and medicare.
The one universal truth of all these battles is that countless individuals bled and lost their lives to secure these rights. There was always a large vocal minority opposition predicting the end of our civilization as we know it organized primarily by the corporatist who have and never will concede power and influence without extracting our blood and treasury.
I am not in Washington but I am here to fight for my rights and the rights of others. We have bled too long once again not to see this fight through. Let a cry go out across this great country ALL HANDS ON DECK TO SECURE OUR FUTURE!
ENOUGH!
Dan in Alhambra California
p.s. it goes with saying that now is the time to make your voice heard... President Obama can not lead a progressive movement if he doesn't know an army is with him.
“he came to Washington to "fight for others, not for myself,"… “We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future."…(Van Jones)
Mr. President have you forgotten what you promised us during our historic campaign. This quote is not yours but I will be dammed if it was not the message of your campaign.
Are you seriously saying now we must be good soldiers and accept half a loaf that smells of the decay of political triangulating?
CNN in a survey suggests that, by 13 points, Americans think the Democrats rather than the Republicans would do a better job handling the economy and Medicare. The Democrats have a 9 point advantage on health care.
Mr. President in this historical moment you carry the heavy burden of deciding the life and death issues for people who have been ravaged too long by a health care system that says the profit in a dollar is more valuable than the natural unalienable right to health care. I could state the overwhelming statistics which you already are aware of but doing this will not bring back the countless faces no longer with us or plunged into economic despair over a failed system.
This fight is not new. It started with the Declaration of Independence:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
and the Constitution:
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
It continued with the fight for public education and libraries fundamental to a free society healthy in mind and spirit. It continued with the abolition of slavery. It continued with the enactment of child labor law and the right to unionize. It continued with the enactment of social security. It continued with the enactment of civil rights and medicare.
The one universal truth of all these battles is that countless individuals bled and lost their lives to secure these rights. There was always a large vocal minority opposition predicting the end of our civilization as we know it organized primarily by the corporatist who have and never will concede power and influence without extracting our blood and treasury.
I am not in Washington but I am here to fight for my rights and the rights of others. We have bled too long once again not to see this fight through. Let a cry go out across this great country ALL HANDS ON DECK TO SECURE OUR FUTURE!
ENOUGH!
Dan in Alhambra California
p.s. it goes with saying that now is the time to make your voice heard... President Obama can not lead a progressive movement if he doesn't know an army is with him.
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