It’s been months [July] since Obama cut his deal with devil BigPharma’s lobbist Billy Tauzin in the back rooms. Remember Obama promising C-Span would carry all important details of HC process so we could all participate? Transparency?

Progressives have watched Obama wimp out for a year on everything from Wall Street, Banks, Afghanistan, Healthcare and Drugs without objection. Until now I’m beginning to hear awareness and anger in the left wing blogs that were all in the tank for Obama.

I do hope this awareness morphs into political payback and hold Team Obama accountable.

As far as Obama “Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother,” – President Obama may find that the Democratic and independent voters are also keeping score.

“Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother,” Obama told DeFazio during a closed-door meeting of the House Democratic Caucus, according to members afterward.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/72889-pelosi-rahm-do-not-scare-rep-defazio

djjl says:
18 December 2009 at 7:51 pm

I agree. Ratigan should have given her a chance to speak, IMO, otherwise, why have her on? And yes, Wasserman-Schultz does appear to be making excuses for this shabby bill.

Remember how quickly Crawford was “dismissed” from Tweety and company when he wasn’t appropriately slovenly in bowing to Obamamania?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

It’s only the price to pay for a preening peacock accustomed to the easy way.

How many of you recall reading in 2007 that one of the reasons he chose Chicago was because Chicago had a history of being good to black politicians. Naaawhhh, naawwhhh, naaawhh pastor of similarly (imo) a similarly considered choice.

That’s really something and I bet it wasn’t easy to do.

Let’s keep working to get something, anything changed, and a better bill.

Obamaphilia on display. What’s it say when Obama matters more than the nation and it’s citizens to some of those who worked hard to put him in the WH? Is it that we should all realize that Obama is what is really important and not the people of the country.

Thanks to Obama, or is that thanks to his blogs who continue to refuse to at least allow him to be responsible for what HE DOES.

Let’s watch tweety, Olberman, and all the Obama allegiants…………

What a sorry mess Obama and HIS allegiants have foisted upon the world – all to elect the Prom King.

You should hang your heads in shame. Shame, shame , shame.

What a supreme and ridiculous joke.

http://bit.ly/traitorjoe

http://bit.ly/public_option

http://bit.ly/drug_benefit

Mandates are the only way to insure a large pool of payers, again as Kanzeon stated. It’s basic.

You’ve just heaped praise on a irrational ranting bully, who put in a performance that would have done Bill O’Reilly proud. Then you’ve proclaimed that the straighforward comments of a Nobel Prize winning economist are signs he has lost his mind.

You aren’t scoring any credibility points.

Those times when you went without insurance, wouldn’t you have preferred to purchase it with a subsidy? The mandate is almost irrelevant – most of us purchase it out of need and a sense of responsibility, thought the cost may be exorbitant. Do you recognize that it is foolish and irresponsible to go without insurance, and that the only way for any system to work – public or private – is to have everyone pay into it at all times, because it is a basic need.

Getting upset over the mandate is childish, and has been ever since Obama opposed it in the primary.

Talkshow hosts should let their guest answer the question asked, perhaps cutting them off after they make their main point, and then ask ANOTHER probing question. Talking over each other is not productive. He should have let her make her point about how this changes the whole insurance landscape, yada yada, and THEN blasted her with his take and another question.

Ratigan is demystifying economics while linking it to politics at a time when our corpocracy is ripe for muckrakers.

Just wish he was asking Obama, Axelrod, or hell, Paul Krugman the same question.

Truth is, most Americans are smart enough to look at stock trends like he showed and realize the fix is in.

The noise is only going to get louder

“HCR” can’t be sold because the leadership doesn’t really believe in it. It is very hard to sell something that you do not value or are not passionate about at some level. Throwing out the Clinton card only gets you Change We Can NO LONGER Believe in. The Obama Administration needs to show that it is passionate about more than showing the hippees who’s the boss.

This has NOTHING to do with anything… but such a sexy beast he is too! And his principled stands make him all the more attractive..