blackascoal
The Force is With Me
If Obama had gone to battle . . .
Get your head out of your ass, BAC. Obama would magically turn Blue Dogs into singly-payer proponents by sheer strength of oratory? Same foe Joe Lieberman, BIll Nelson, Max Baucus, Susan Collins, Snowe and the rest of the so-called moderates in the Senate.
Medicare for all never would have passed. Ever. Hell, Joe Lieberman said he'd support a Medicare buy-in for people 55 and over and then crawfished on ever that incrementalist approach.
You need to get real.
It isn't me who has their head up the ass brother. I know how Washington works .. I've been there.
You keep missing this part .. Obama is a corporatist. Corporations have been the biggest beneficiaries of his administration BY FAR.
Your notion that Obama had no choice but to produce this unpopular crap legislation is totally and completely ridiculous. He did not have to pass the crap he did when he did. He could have taken a REAL healthcare bill to the country during the midterms .. backed by not only those who elected him, but also by those who were demanding healthcare reform from the republicans.
This capitulation/settle for crumbs logic is not what leaders are made of. Now he's in a fight for a second term against Romney .. who should have been easy .. which of course his supporters will blame on racists.
We disagree on strategy and outcome brother.