The health care reform bill is being burned to the ground just so Obama can say he passed something. Some observers are making a good case for doing nothing at all about health care if all we get is what Lieberman and the other so-called moderate Democrats can stand. I don't see that happening. The Democrats and the White House are desperate to get any bill they can call health care reform passed. And they're willing to mangle the legislation into a monster if that's what it takes.
My sentiments aren't too far from this comment to the post:
If the Democratic Party wants to govern like the GOP, which is clearly what Rahm and Leadership want, they can do it without my support. I'd just as soon get fucked by the enemies I know than by those I support.And a sampling of more progressive sentiment in the wake of the systematic dismemberment of what was hardly a radical bill to begin with pretty much agrees. People are furious.
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I've despised that man for years, for various reasons. He is a bag-man for Big Money.
A president can only have 8 years, but a senator can spend 20+ on Capital Hill? Think how much power a person can amass in 20 years.
Election Reform. I've been saying it over and over and over. We need to change the way we put and keep these guys in office. We need a TRUE cap on election spending and how long campaingns can run and how many times people from the House and Senate can get elected.
Then, and only then, will we see some change, I think.
The sad thing is, Montag, that the same could be said about so many of his colleagues in the Senate. Lieberman just has the distinction of being more despicable than most of them. It would be a nice exercise--and I'm sure somebody out there has already done it--to lay out where the campaign money for these guys come from.
Reas, I'm with you partially. I don't agree with you that term limits are required. What is required is =public= financing of all elections. Politicians run and vote now for nothing but campaign contributions. On any issue, you name it, that's what drives their votes. Term limits would not be required if politicians had to run and vote on the issues. The course of naturual weeding would take hold to insure that only the fittest survived elections.
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