Early Voting Shows Surprising Turnout For Democrats

Woolsey heads the ProgressiveCaucus, & had she & the 79 others who pledged not to vote for a healthcare bill unless it had a PublicOption kept their word, we'd have a healthcare bill containing costs now. Instead, we got a great big corporate giveaway that doesn't provide universal healthcare or reform a broken system.



If Obama really wanted BlueDogs' votes or JoeLieberman's vote on legislation like real healthcare reform, he'd have done to Lieberman & the BlueDogs what he did to DennisKucinich (the last hold-out on the ProgressiveCaucus, all of whom had pledged to vote for a healthcare bill only if it had a public option, and who all caved). Obama flew to Cleveland and rallied Kucinich's constituents against him and he got Kucinich's vote.



Where was that mentality with JoeLieberman, BlancheLincoln, the other BlueDogs and even OlympiaSnowe? If the president of the UnitedStates had used the bully pulpit against them, a lot of progressives would have respected that and said, "You tried your best". But Obama didn't try. He cut a deal, months earlier, cutting the will of the People off at the knees. The public is powerless in backroom deals.



Whichever of us is right (& I can back up my contentions with much evidence of Obama's not being any more ethical than BushCheney, beginning with his assertion that the president has the right to k!II American citizens with absolutely no due process, no oversight), how is his government's ineffectiveness working for you, for us? (I ask rhetorically)
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