Reply #14: Spare me your condescension. It is misplaced. [View All]

[ClarkUSA]

Leahy's bill had zero support until AHIP's stunt backfired and pissed off the White House and their allies in the Senate
and Congress. That's a fact -- as opposed to reading too much evildoing into White House photo-ops featuring the
disparate players in the HCR debate.

I'm waiting to see the final bill before making all-knowing, all-seeing pronouncements as to the outcome. I could
care less about stock prices and campaign contributions. I didn't falloff the turnip truck yesterday: I don't expect
insurance companies to go out of business or be shut out of the negotiations nor do I waste time railing against
pols who accept monies from big business because I believe red state/blue state regional differences and electoral
considerations weigh more heavily than lobbyist monies when it comes to Democratic Congressional votes for HCR.
Nonetheless, I do believe that President Obama will do his best to hold the Democratic caucus in line in the end.

What I see right now is the best start to healthcare reform in 60 years and I'm 100% behind the process. You can
keep railing against President Obama but the rest of us are working to support him and his Democratic allies in this
endeavor. I'm sure you would have attacked FDR over his initial creation of Social Security and excoriated LBJ over
the compromises he made to secure Medicare. Who knows, since you seem to be so much older than I am,
maybe you actually did. But it's easy to critique from the comfort of a keyboard. It's much harder to actually get
things done in Washington. President Obama deserves my support on this effort while you need to get out of the
way if all you're going to do to enact HCR is whine about process on a discussion forum.

Have a nice day. I'm spending the rest of the afternoon GOTVing for Corzine with my OFA group.