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Single payer, universal health care.  Medicare for all.  That is what's needed and that is what Obama shouldn't have unilaterally, on his own, taken off the table.  And at the same time, he was telling Americans that "I'm staying out of it; it's Congress's job to write the legislation", while he was huddling with Big PhRma and Insurance lobbyists, writing ACA.

Let's not forget that it was Obama and the Democrats who extended Bush's tax cuts.  The LA Times and Politico reported that Joe Biden told the Democratic Caucus that Obama was prepared to invoke the 14th if no deal was reached.  

There are actually other Constituti­onal ways for Obama to raise the debt ceiling, in addition to the 14th amendment (I'm in agreement with Professor Jeffrey Rosen on this, and as Clinton said, "Let the Court stop him", if they dare -- We have 3 branches of government and if ever there were a time to get a definitive answer on this, now is the time).

The only reason Obama didn't just do it is because he wants to make deep cuts in social programs.  Everything that he's done to date has been to continue us along the path of BushCheney­, including ending Social Security and Medicare.  It was Obama who put SocialSecu­rity on the table.  The payroll tax holiday is another one of many examples; it's death by cuts.

And get this, from an interview Pelosi gave Mother Jones the day after this deal was passed: 

Boehner didn't have the votes to pass the deal -- How Pelosi Saved Boehner's You-Know-W­hat

Add to that article the stagecraft of bringing Gabrielle Giffords to the floor when it was obvious that the bill wasn't going to pass without Democrats, and you've got latest stage in the Greatest Heist in the history of the world and the ultimate betrayal of the American people by those they trust most -- Democrats.
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