No More
I just can't believe this.
No public option? Seriously??
I have believed in you, President Obama, through thick and thin. And it's been pretty thin, of late. But I have believed. I have had hope, I have supported and I have closed my eyes. Okay, no single-payer. I swallowed hard and decided I would get behind the public option. We can't do everything at once - right? So I used reason and reality to understand. I got there - I worked with you.
No more.
No more.
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I've looked at your avatar a hundred thousand times, I figure. Never noticed the eyes before. Funny.
This, of course, is not, because it means so much to so many. So I'd like to start with this idea. We need to decide what it is we want, and the sacrifices we are willing to have in order to have it. I thought Purple State had a good idea in Dean Baker's blog; I think Ellen's idea few weeks back of government loans for catastrophic care was a good idea.
I guess what I'm saying is that we've been arguing about an ideal that was bereft of ideas. We need to decide what those things are that are important. Specifics of an achievable plan. And then be ready to fight for them.
I'm sorry you've gotten disillusioned here. I feel much the same, though my faith was never that strong and it's for different reasons. But losing faith sucks -- the best thing I've found to replace it with is to find a goal to have faith in, and have faith in that.
August 17, 2009 8:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
"We need to decide what those things are that are important. Specifics of an achievable plan. And then be ready to fight for them."
Why? I know what plans I've considered important, and they appear to be out the window. The specifics may or may not have been laid out correctly, but the bottom line is - whatever the Republicans want, they apparently get. I'm just too disappointed to explain what you already know any further.
August 17, 2009 9:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
As soon as the single payer option has been considered out the door by so many people the public option was actually weaker in my opinion because it was considered by most as a 'path' to single payer which is why so many didn't fight for single payer. Now based on the dialogue and reporting in the MSM we're down to nearly nothing. If this is what happens the republicans and extremists win even when we have elected a democratic majority. It is deeply disturbing and disgusting.
With a disgusting right wing and an impotent democratic party, I can't help thinking there must be a new party for the disaffected and that we could end up being a majority.
August 17, 2009 11:46 AM | Reply | Permalink