Agreed.

But OGD, the state co-ops can form their own group of people insurance companies can't make lots of money on....hoping this 'no public option' report is just Obama rope-a-dope to deflect/dodge the blows of the nutjob Bush Base.

God damn it. God fucking damn it.

OGD,
Fork them and the corporate controlled gates of hell they have built.

I feel the nightmare slipping through our dream.

They ran it up the flag pole once before and they are hoping they can get away with it this time. See we are doing the best we can -- don't you understand we need to kiss some crazy tea bag a$$es?

This is how I thought the Obama White House would operate and part of why I did not vote for him.

First step, is pruning some of the Blue Dog gangrene. Contribute not to Democratic committees but to liberal groups and to specific politicians for specific reasons. Turf out unstaisfactory incubents -- preferrably in primaries -- but in the general if necessary. Don't let these folks accumulate seniority. Don't let them think that these positions are risk free.

Yeah, and oh, by the way, I expect to be campaigning hard for Obama the next round because the rump ReThuglicans don't seem to contain any sane individuals.

I just sent an email to the president and would encourage others to sound off as well.

http://www.emailthepresident.com/

It may never reach the intended recipient, but it helped me to vent and know that someone will open that email and read my disappointment and disgust.

The financial system (inclusive of insurance) has been finagled and has ended up with what amounts to a huge rip off of regular working class citizens. Profits and wages in the financial sector have grown all out of proportion to the overall economy since about 1980. They screwed up everything completely and instead of getting seriously whacked for driving the world economy to the brink, U.S. taxpayers funded their largesse and in fact have ended up covering their sorry asses and making sure their profits and over the top lifestyles remain intact.

Now it appears the healthcare sector is going to take a shot at their own custom made scam that will do quite the opposite of what any sane person anticipated and is a mirror of what happened in the financial sector.

Both are living high on the hog, using customers money for the most outrageous expenditures including lobbying our elected officials to our disadvantage and lavishing them with untold amounts of campaign cash and writing it all off as business expenses.

There is an awful lot very wrong with this entire picture. We are being seriously screwed to maintain the oligarchy and political elites who have completely abandoned any pretense of being other than common thieves.

They have changed all the rules and stolen so much money from the middle class I don't think you can even begin to fgure out all the ways the tables have been turned on us. Democracy is out the window for sure. We are going to have the rich and the poor when this is done. Of that I have no doubt. We are being squeezed to provide profits for global corporations who are no more citizens of this country than an alien on a planet a zillion light years from here. I recall that someplace in our constitution there is a phrase about the common good. Like so many of the other high minded principles of that document, the notion of the common good has been effectively stricken from it. Every society ends up a victim of its own success and we are no exception. We just cannot escape the inevitable consequences of our flawed nature. Not as individuals and not in the collective.

I'm the eternal optimist. While single payer/public options are like icing on a multilayer cake, I suspect its the moist texture of the cake itself Obama is concerned with. Perhaps single payer/public options are idle threats to both Congress and the industry what could happen if the legislation doesn't meets Obama's concept of health care reform. I think they are but toys dangled in front of the participants of the legislative orchestra as it gets itself tuned up for a legislative session that will define a truly unique change in the way the government deals with public health care and their expectation of the cast of providers as they perform a choreographic dance for the public - dance well or get cut.

Sadly, Diogenes has extinguished his lamp and has returned to his tub(where he lives)and is in the corner crying softly and silently as he finally gives up his quest.

Windancer no more as my heart is to heavy.