Last Year was my Last Straight Dem Vote

placton

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Sun Aug-09-09 06:54 PM
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Last Year was my Last Straight Dem Vote

Edited on Sun Aug-09-09 06:58 PM by placton

Since my first vote - cast at age 21 (yeah I am THAT old - for McGovern) I have followed a simple maxim: "Be emphatic, vote straight Democratic!" Never again. And, it looks like, never again for Obama.

Look at his campaign promises:

"First, we'll take on the drug and insurance companies and hold them accountable for the prices they charge and the harm they cause... And then we'll tell the pharmaceutical companies, 'Thanks but no thanks for overpriced drugs'. Drugs that cost twice as much here as they do in Europe and Canada and Mexico. We'll let Medicare negotiate for lower prices. We'll stop drug companies from blocking generic drugs that are just as effective and far less expensive. We'll allow the safe reimportation of low-cost drugs from countries like Canada."

AND.....

"But here's the thing. We're going to do all these negotiations on C-SPAN.

The American people will be able to watch these negotiations so if they start seeing a member of Congress who is carrying the water for the drug companies instead of for their constituents and says, 'Oh, you no. we can't negotiate for the cheapest available price on drugs because the drug companies need these profits to invest in research and development', I'll say, 'OK, let me bring my health care expert in here'. And on TV, we'll ask my health care expert, 'What do you think about what the drug companies are saying?'

And what that drug expert will undoubtedly say is 'Well, drug companies do need some profits to invest in research and development but a lot of what they're calling research and development is actually marketing costs for some of these TV ads you see' ... where everybody is, you have all these people dancing in fields, looking all happy. You don't know what the drug is for. Right? Except for that one drug, you know what that's for. You know what that one is for.

Anyway, you get my point. Open this. Transparency. You will hold me accountable, you will hold Congress accountable. That's how we'll get welfare... uh health care reform passed."

Watch this liar say this and more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/09/flashback-obama-promises_n_254833.html

I am gonna judge Obama by the same standard as Bush now - I will assume he is lying. Because he has - time and again breaking explicit promises that persuaded me to vote for him.

Now ole "Dick" Durin is "open" to shitcanning the public option just like the prez - his buddy from IL.

"One of Barack Obama's chief allies in the United States Senate hinted on Sunday that a public insurance option could go by the wayside as Congress hammers out its health care legislation.

Appearing on CNN's "State of the Union," Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), one of the chamber's foremost progressives, said that while he supported a government-run option for insurance, he was "open" to alternatives.

"Just understand that, after we pass this bill -- and I hope we do -- in the Senate, it will go to conference committee," said Durbin. "We'll have a chance to work out all of our differences."

"So we'll see how this ends, but I don't want the process to be filibustered to failure, which unfortunately, many senators are trying to do," Durbin added. "I want to make sure that we do something positive for the American people."

The comments are similar to the line coming from the White House in recent days, with officials indicating that they would be open to a co-op based insurance model, provided that it had enough leverage to lower costs for consumers. (In this plan, non-profit cooperatives would get a charter from the government to take premiums from members and cover claims, expanding the risk pool for individuals buying insurance). Indeed, for Durbin to make the remarks he did on CNN is a strong indication that the party -- from Obama on down -- sees the public option as a likely victim in an effort to get 60 votes for health care's passage in the Senate."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/09/another-blow-to-public-op_n_254961.html

I will still vote of course - and for some Dems like my senator, Carl Levin. But, in many races, I won't vote at all. And if the Dems lose, well, they chose to lie to me and not represent me for decades. Because they're nothing (for the most part) but a bunch of corporatist, lying sacks of...

I urge others to do other same. And ... spare me the bullshit about how it is only 6 months, and he needs time and all that. Nossir - the auto vote is gone forever. Sigh.