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A "Purist" Who's Happy Healthcare Passed

I don't think even people on this blog understand how much I hate the healthcare measure that the President just signed. I hope I can make you understand why I'm so happy it passed.

As for the bill itself, it's so bad that the lack of a public option is about 8 items down my list of reasons I hate it. An Ex-Republican but still "Contra-Democrat" friend of mine who hates the bill for reasons that barely make my list asked me how we would know if the bill succeeded or failed. I told him I wasn't sure that was even a fair question. The best that can be said about the bill, in my view, is that it's reasonably likely a helpful number of doctors' appointments will happen that otherwise might not have Even this is by no means certain. Our healthcare system has failed and it will continue to fail - probably more expensively in the near- to medium-term.

Yet this bill is a triumph and the reason is pretty simple:

The policy may actually be somewhat worse than the status quo but the country has experienced a victory - not because of what we won but because of who lost.

The first people who lost where the "Blue Dog" Democrats who revealed themselves as the true purists - and traitors, hypocrites and soul-less weasels. Their ideas have always been purely dishonest: The want Democrat spending and Republican tax cuts. They stand for nothing but pandering. My fervent hope is that the Democrats lose those particular 34 seats in the House - or at least the people who now occupy them.

The second group of people who lost are the Republicans - not the TeaBaggers who won big, but the RNC - they've been eviscerated and emasculated. The Repubs finally fell off the radical-right-wing populist tiger they have been riding since Congressman George H.W. Bush joined greasy hands with the John Birchers over a Texas barbecue pit in which his standards and decency smoldered foully.

Finally, at long last, the Republicans overstepped, celebrated too soon, acted too disgustingly even for the American public and the Democrats took the opportunity to kick them in the face for it. In January, healthcare was a catastrophic failure for the Dems. By March the Republicans had Glenn-Becked themselves into defeat and ignominy.

Most importantly, the Democrats took the risk, seized the opportunity and went for the win.

Under the leadership of the Coakleyites and Blue-Doggy-Style DINO purists, the Democratic party had become a danger to Western civilization. It's simply too destabilizing for one of the major parties in the most powerful nation on Earth to be that weak and ineffective.

It's one thng for them to have signed on to the deregulation craze that very nearly destroyed the industrial world's credit creation system. It's quite another to follow that up by knuckling under to a bunch of far-right extremist attack dogs in the name of "bipartisanship".

It's one thing for the Democrats to stand aside - or even take the wrong side - in the war between Capital and Labor (Labor lost, BTW. Sorry if you bet on them.) This time the war is between Capital and Democracy. Unrestrained, the American Right is by far the most dangerous political force in the world and it is the Democrats' job to challenge them and keep them under control. "Dry Powder" and bipartisanchip would not mean a great deal with a President Sarah Palin starting World War 3 in order to save her approval ratings. Now the Republicans are embarrassed and deflated. Again, sometimes it's not important that you win because of what you win, but just because the other guy needs to lose.

So this bill truly sucks. I'm not even going to get into why it sucks so bad. It's so bad the bill itself really doesn't matter. It's one in the win column and for that I am finally proud once again, if not to be a Democrat myself, then to have supported the party and even to have allowed myself to believe in it.

So, safe in the knowledge that the healthcare bill that passed is even worse than you thought,  all you ex-purist Progressives can now join me in rejoicing. We won.  

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opposite just for the shits, grins and giggles.

even if, oh, by the way, ANY opposite of the DLC droolers is better than another fascist lite sell out.

dude - this is fracking cracked.

what is going 'right' right now? well, the right is pulling a GWB flying past Katrina & looking concerned - they're f'ing up BIG time. HOWEVER, this piece of crap bill ain't really gonna help too many people too quick, AND, it is gonna help the scum who wrote it right quick.

Crappy deliverance of crappy service = full employement for the spawn of Raygun & Prop 13 for another decade or 3.

OH, BTW, WHAT is the Dem messaging right now?

"neener neener neener ... the public likes me and doesn't like you and you're a meanie and you're not nice and you're not truth-y-full (neener neener neener !!)"

So some great grand droppings of some John Birch loony tunes chucked a rock at a Democratic window !!! ... cuz passing some loophole ridden "law" on insurance fascists is gonna put chairman che mao in charge on april 1.

"LOMG! The Vapors! The Dillitantes At The $alon Will Faint With Being Appalled, Appalled I Say!  Chaz! Buffy! They're NOT Nice! LOMG!"

It is nice to know that if I completey utterly totally sink financially, I'll get medi-shit part CLXXXVVIIIII, donut 13 ... especially after I drop a 500k retainer on Skadden & Arps to help me navigate the 2000 pages of hell.

Dude, Dude, ... dude.

rmm.

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by rmdSeaBos on Fri Mar 26, 2010 at 07:35:08 PM PST

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..what you got there on that spit, over that bed of half burnt-out coals, anyway? It's gonna take like forever to get done like that, you know.

How's the keg? Oh shit, this is nearly empty!

by m3047 on Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 01:38:52 AM PST

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Wake up!

Did you not see where I said that the policy was terrible????

In December, before the vote, I was encouraging our Senators not to even vote for this POS bill.

But, there's such a thing as politics. To SeaBos's question: The Democrats' message is now: "They counted us out and we won!. The Republican party is Glenn Beck. They're in it for the yelling and the ratings. We're here to actually govern the country"

Okay, they suck at running the country. They have no ideas and they are led around by the nose by the financial industry. I'll admit that's a problem.

What's a worse problem is the Republicans, who see the purpose of American government as making war on the AntiChrist (in whatever form It happens to be taking these days).  

We're in the Post-Fairness Era, comrades. The first question is political power, not proper policy.

by dlaw on Tue Mar 30, 2010 at 11:57:03 AM PST

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