tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885549900454136918.post7360192379696424351..comments2023-08-11T08:06:28.810-07:00Comments on Slobber And Spittle (Archive): Health Care Reform: Cleaning Out The E-mailCujo359http://www.blogger.com/profile/10385213658828021737noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885549900454136918.post-5318237308238669022010-03-30T15:30:12.925-07:002010-03-30T15:30:12.925-07:00My circle of friends may be smaller, but not too m...My circle of friends may be smaller, but not too many of them are fooled by that nonsense, JB. To me, it makes even less sense as a result. Besides the Medicaid expansion, the marginal Medicare reforms, and the aid for community clinics, there's nothing in the bill that helps ordinary folks. The rest of it is a huge giveaway to the very interests that have been making our health care system expensive and unusable.<br /><br />But then, what you want to believe has become more important in America than what is actually true. I'm afraid that we may have finally become too stupid to govern ourselves properly.Cujo359https://www.blogger.com/profile/10385213658828021737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885549900454136918.post-89178837753618037222010-03-30T13:13:23.081-07:002010-03-30T13:13:23.081-07:00Cujo - In my 59 yrs., I've never seen anything...Cujo - In my 59 yrs., I've never seen anything quite like this. My Democratic "friends" refuse to see these Health Insurance Revisions as anything less than revolutionary progress! They are acting, well, just like the Palinist Tea-Baggers that they despise! They've set up this "Phony Paradigm" where this "Reform" is light vs. darkness. This is akin to a belief system where it's us vs. the big, bad, rural, redneck right-wing extemists. Cujo, these people are as crazy & stupid as the exteme Palinistas! JBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885549900454136918.post-9010788840727406892010-03-30T09:42:43.938-07:002010-03-30T09:42:43.938-07:00My guess, and it's really only a guess, is tha...My guess, and it's really only a guess, is that the real explanation is a combination of things. Much of the progressive movement caved early, when <a href="http://cujo359.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-do-you-know.html" rel="nofollow">Rahm Emanuel threatened</a> the funding of some of the major groups (the "veal pen", as Jane Hamsher called them). Many others eventually caved so they wouldn't be "outsiders" in DC.<br /><br />I suppose we'll find out the real story later, but meanwhile, given the players, this seems like a reasonable hypothesis.Cujo359https://www.blogger.com/profile/10385213658828021737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885549900454136918.post-31305907743396389522010-03-30T06:58:04.998-07:002010-03-30T06:58:04.998-07:00or maybe give.or maybe give.lawguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11534424484513054742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885549900454136918.post-57530041212967358982010-03-30T06:57:19.790-07:002010-03-30T06:57:19.790-07:00I didn't say it wa a good deal. The question ...I didn't say it wa a good deal. The question that keeps nagging at me is why do so called progressive groups gie up so easily?lawguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11534424484513054742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885549900454136918.post-43201877565576569642010-03-29T20:17:22.070-07:002010-03-29T20:17:22.070-07:00It seems a pitifully small victory, nonetheless, f...It seems a pitifully small victory, nonetheless, for selling out the work force at large.Cujo359https://www.blogger.com/profile/10385213658828021737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885549900454136918.post-71493679640040423252010-03-29T19:22:16.227-07:002010-03-29T19:22:16.227-07:00In looking at Obama's recess appointments I se...In looking at Obama's recess appointments I see that he appointed the two union chioces to the NLRB. Well, it looks like the unions got something no matter how small for their roll over. Unlike more other "progressive" organizations.lawguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11534424484513054742noreply@blogger.com