Washblog

For me, the meaning of this morning's new health care law goes beyond the policy accomplishments -- thousands of people surviving instead of dying, millions more being insured and able to get health care when they need it, uncounted small businesses that will do better, state budgets that will now be more able to cover basic human and community needs.

It goes beyond the fact that now the presidency will more likely stay out of the hands of the Teaparty/haters in 2012, those obstinately blind to the survival issues of our day - climate change, unregulated market greed, political hatred and defeatism.  

And it goes beyond the flaws in this new law, which, yeah, possibly is so flawed, so fatally compromised, as some are saying - though I don't agree -- that it's worse than nothing. I guess that's possible.

This accomplishment feels to my weary & sad but ever-hopeful political heart like a message that love can win out, that BIG good things still happen, that we can accomplish what's desperately needed even in a massive, massively-funded, nation-wide shit-storm of hate & lies.  

Yeah, I'm inspired.