Reply #6: You know what, Windy?

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There is a big difference in believing we should have gone for single-payer and believing it would pass.

The FACTS for believing the first are crystal clear and have been reiterated many times on this board and other places.

Most supporters of single payer do not believe it had a chance after it was summarily dismissed early in the game - after it was not even given a place at the table . . .

It is impossible to say, at this point, if it would have had a chance, had it been given a fair hearing and support. If you would like to prove that it would never have had a chance, please do so - but please give some FACTS to support your conclusion.

It is becoming very, very easy for some DUer's to try and deflect blame for the watered-down health insurance 'reform' currently wending it's way through Congress on someone or something else. The Republicans, the Blue Dogs, the Lobbyists . . . even DUers who recognized early on that the most effective, cost-controlling, and equitable solution was going to be held up as some pie-in-the-sky fantasy rather than a real solution to a real problem.

You don't know me. You don't know most of the people on DU, I suspect. You have NO IDEA what I do in terms of contacting Congress any more than you have any idea what most people do. I don't believe we're required to report in after every email or phone call.

I don't know you, but I do know one thing about you - you are another who wants to find someone to blame, so you're pointing your finger at people who disagreed from the start with the model of reform that was supported by the White House.

Get over yourself. Stop telling other people how to feel and what to do.