Waivers Address Talk Of Dropping Health Coverage

Total BS, as I have already explained to you in the past, and will do it once again.

Republicans haven't been filibustering anything, only threatening to filibuster. 

HarryReid could've actually forced Republicans & turncoat Democratic senators to filibuster. He didn't (& doesn't).

Senate rule 22 gives the Senate Majority Leader (Harry Reid) the discretion to force Republicans to actually filibuster & not just threaten to do it. Filibustering is very hard on those soft, pampered bodies. Reid forced it once (Jim Bunning & extending unemployment) & Bunning caved.

Democrats can even change the supermajority rule (it does NOT have to be done at the beginning of a new Congress, as some argue). It can be done at any time (see page 6 - http://fpc .state.gov/documents/organization/45448. pdf ].

There's not just one way (or even two) for Democrats to get bills passed without Republican votes.

http://www .huffingto npost.com/ 2010/07/27/ezra-klein-how-to-end-then_661234.html

http://www.senate.gov/CRSReports/crs-publish.cfm?pid='0E%2C*P%2C%3B%3F %22%20%20%20%0A

http://yglesias.thinkprogress. org/2009/08/hertzberg-on-the-constitutionality-of- the-filibuster/


But Obama & the DLC-controlled DemocraticParty aren't doing that. Because it might actually work to get Democratic voters' legislative agenda made into the law of the land & do good for the People. And that's not what Obama&Company are there for. They're there to do the work of the transnational corporations.


A robust bill with a public option, even expanding Medicare, could have been passed through reconciliation with a president beating the drum for it.   Obama could have done to Lieberman and the Blue Dogs what he did to Dennis Kucinich.  What was that?  What did Obama do when Kucinich (the last hold-out on the Progressive Caucus, all of whom had pledged to vote for a healthcare bill only if it had a public option, and who all caved) was opposing him to the left?  Obama flew to Cleveland and held a big rally.  Obama rallied Kucinich's constituents against him and he got Kucinich's vote.  

Where was that mentality with Joe Lieberman, Blanche Lincoln, the other Blue Dogs and even Olympia Snowe?  

If the president of the United States 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 was powerless in the backroom deal.  

It was like many other deals that Obama has cut in the close to 2 years he's been in the White House, and they all look remarkably similar.  They all favor corporations over the American people.  From the $20 billion deal that we now learn is really $3 billion, non-securitized, non-contractual, and predicated on another deal where BP gets to continue risky and dangerous drilling in sensitive deep waters, to the deal he made with Arlen Specter, to throw the weight of the White House behind his election campaign in the primary over real Democrats.
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