Robert Kuttner has a piece in Huffington Post today with which I fully agree. Kuttner writes:
Will somebody please explain to me why Barack Obama is still on his bipartisan kick?
“…the Republican opposition has made it clear that no goodwill gesture, no effort to meet them halfway signals anything other than weakness. They are out to destroy his presidency, pure and simple. Nothing makes this clearer than the battle over health insurance reform.”
Reminds me of the code of prison life. Weakness is perceived by inmates as inviting their dominion and control. The insurance industry coupled with the Republican leadership has deftly used the Congressional August recess to severely weaken, if not kill, health insurance reform as rank and file Democrats had perceived it. The public option is on its deathbed.
It lived in the House and now lies on its deathbed in the Senate. Yes that same Senate in which Democrats hold 60 votes, enough to pass any bill they want—if they wanted.
Mr. President—please—don’t allow yourself to be deceived by the Washington D.C. culture. The Republican leadership is not your friend. Your friends are out here in the wilderness of America—not Washington. We are the ones who worked door to door in our communities to get you elected. We believed in the “hope” you ignited. We are the ones who gave life to your admonition “Yes, we can.”
Stand up, straight and tall, take a deep breath, recover your balance. Do what is right for us rank and file people who sent you to Washington. Stick to your guns. Don’t fail us now. Keep the public option alive, which I hope, is single payer healthcare=Medicare for everybody.
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I don’t know why you are so surprised. I’m not. This is the amde Obama that ran in the primaries. He’s never been anything but this. This is a man whose hero was Ronald Reagan. I asked all my Obama-supporting friends during the election to point me to One Single Issue that was Obama’s signature, take it to the mat, issue. They could never answer me. So, this is what you get when you go for a guy that’s never stood up for anything in his life. On the other hand, we had another option. Someone who’d been through the fire, who had no illusions as to what the right wing noise machine was all about, and would never have been played as Obama has been.
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It is all water under the bridge now.