Setting Ourselves On Fire
Yo! Senators, Congresspersons, Mr. President! What do we democrats have to do to get your attention? We want real healthcare reform. We would prefer a single payer system, but we will settle for a system with a "public option." But we will not settle for BaucusCare, or anything that smells remotely like it.
Did you hear us? WE WILL NOT SETTLE FOR BAUCUSCARE. We will not settle for it. What do we have to do to get through to you? Set our sorry middle class asses on fire?
We the real people are sinking fast. We're losing our jobs, our businesses and our homes. We do not want to see you dicking around with half-measures that favor fat-ass insurance companies, that cost the middle class even more than we already cannot afford. I cannot fathom what world you live in that you think this will be good for us, or that we will let you get away with screwing us again. We will not.
To you Democratic congresspersons, you of the safe gerrymandered district, just think 2010. Screw us and we're coming after you. You may think we'll still support you just because the alternative is worse. We will not. We will go Green or we'll stay home. In our eyes, you will cease to exist or matter.
To you Democratic senators. Look, we already think you're a bunch of out-of-touch-with-the-common-people rich bastards. And now you're proving our assessment correct. If you let Baucus and Grassley run the show and try to sell us a watered down health care plan that favors the rich and well-connected, well screw you too. Your six-year term is isn't long enough to save you. This time we will not forget whose side you chose. Your only chance will be to run as the Republican that at heart you really are, because we Democrats will dump you.
As for you, Mr. President, when you ran for the office you now hold, your platform included healthcare reform with a public option. Please do not sign a healthcare reform bill that does not include a meaningful public option and does not save a struggling middleclass from financial ruin. If you do, I for one will not vote for you again. Last time around I worked many long hours for your campaign, and I gave your campaign more money than I could really afford.
If you let me down on healthcare, Mr. President, not only will I not vote for you again, I will send you an invoice for the time and money I spent in your behalf. I won't, however, expect to get paid, because so far your administration has only handed out money to rich bankers. (When you walk down the White House hallways, doesn't the stench of the Goldman Sachs bailout bother you just a little?)
"Senators, Congressmen, [Presidents] please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall, for he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled..."
Hey, has anybody seen my matches?
Did you hear us? WE WILL NOT SETTLE FOR BAUCUSCARE. We will not settle for it. What do we have to do to get through to you? Set our sorry middle class asses on fire?
We the real people are sinking fast. We're losing our jobs, our businesses and our homes. We do not want to see you dicking around with half-measures that favor fat-ass insurance companies, that cost the middle class even more than we already cannot afford. I cannot fathom what world you live in that you think this will be good for us, or that we will let you get away with screwing us again. We will not.
To you Democratic congresspersons, you of the safe gerrymandered district, just think 2010. Screw us and we're coming after you. You may think we'll still support you just because the alternative is worse. We will not. We will go Green or we'll stay home. In our eyes, you will cease to exist or matter.
To you Democratic senators. Look, we already think you're a bunch of out-of-touch-with-the-common-people rich bastards. And now you're proving our assessment correct. If you let Baucus and Grassley run the show and try to sell us a watered down health care plan that favors the rich and well-connected, well screw you too. Your six-year term is isn't long enough to save you. This time we will not forget whose side you chose. Your only chance will be to run as the Republican that at heart you really are, because we Democrats will dump you.
As for you, Mr. President, when you ran for the office you now hold, your platform included healthcare reform with a public option. Please do not sign a healthcare reform bill that does not include a meaningful public option and does not save a struggling middleclass from financial ruin. If you do, I for one will not vote for you again. Last time around I worked many long hours for your campaign, and I gave your campaign more money than I could really afford.
If you let me down on healthcare, Mr. President, not only will I not vote for you again, I will send you an invoice for the time and money I spent in your behalf. I won't, however, expect to get paid, because so far your administration has only handed out money to rich bankers. (When you walk down the White House hallways, doesn't the stench of the Goldman Sachs bailout bother you just a little?)
"Senators, Congressmen, [Presidents] please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall, for he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled..."
Hey, has anybody seen my matches?
