It's never going to happen with Obama in the White House. That was the deal that he made with the insurance and pharmaceutical industries, hospitals and the AMA.
It almost happened right at the end, but Obama nixxed it.
About Health
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The only reason that we don't have a strong healthcare bill is Obama. And we won't have any kind of real healthcare reform until he's out of office.
The week before & the week after the healthcare bill (or, more accurately, 'The Insurance & Pharmaceutical Industries Windfall Act') passed in the Senate was the one & only time a public option had any chance of happening until another generation passes.
A group of senators had mobilized behind it since the bill had to be passed through reconciliation anyway, & there was no way that Democrats weren't going to get enough of its members to vote against it just because it had a PublicOption in it.
Obama nixxed it.
The excuse was that if the Senate did that, the bill would have to go back to the House for a vote & "There's no time!"
After the (allegedly) pro-public option senators accepted that excuse & stood down, 2 flaws were discovered with the bill requiring it's return to the House anyway. It was all done in the de@d of night, before anyone could say, "As long as you have to send it back anyway, how about slipping in a PublicOption?"
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Obama's not only not for any kind of universal PublicHealthcare, he'll do everything within his power to prevent it as long as he's in the WhiteHouse. Because that was the deal that he made.
About Health
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More Dems back tax breaks for the rich
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About 2010 Elections
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That line doesn't work on a whole range of levels.
Bush, with Cheney allegedly pressuring him, didn't attack Iran, and McCain has a long history of saying one thing and doing another.
Obama has surrounded himself with pro-Irania
If & when the Establishment Elites decide to go to war in Iran, we'll go to war, no matter who is in the Oval Office. As Obama himself has admitted, he's not anti-war, even when to go to war means the destruction of the US.
About Iraq
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Despite the 56,000 service personnel remaining, The New York Times reported this morning that a "remarkable civilian effort" would be required to fill the void left by the withdrawal, and suggested THE NUMBER OF PRIVATE SECURITY GUARDS (MERCENARIES) COULD DOUBLE (if they admit that, it's more accurate to say given past experience, 'quadruple' at least) over the next 18 months. http://www
Why?
Because as Iraqi Lieutenant General Babakir Zebari said, "If I were asked about the withdrawal, I would say to politicians: the US army must stay until the Iraqi army is fully ready. In 2020."
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Obama's problem, our nation's problem, what has led to our downfall as a great nation and people, is this inability to be honest and straightforward.
We never went to Iraq for WMD, or to bring freedom and democracy to Iraqis, or even to remove Saddam Hussein (though that might be the deluded rationale for a white-knuckled drunk of a former US president's son).
Obama's presidency is already failed. And that's the real story here.
About Iraq
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US taxpayer-paid private contracted troops are now directly handling combat, and will until the 56,000 US combat-trained and ready troops remaining in Iraq are needed.
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And, not that they were worth much, but along with the official announcement that "combat has ended in Iraq", so goes the little media that's [embedded] there reporting the events on the ground.
So Americans are really going to be in the dark about what's being done "in our names [and with our money]".
About Iraq
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