Now I feel foolish for having held out hope for this (Reply #8)

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 09:26 PM

8. Now I feel foolish for having held out hope for this

The game is rigged, the table is tilted, we are screwed as usual.

I know we need to keep fighting but today I just feel depressed and very, very cynical.

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52 replies	Author	Time	Post
SB 810 (Single Payer Healthcare) Killed on the California Senate Floor [View all]	yurbud	Jan 2012	OP
how much $$ did the abstain/no voters get from the health rip off insurance industries? lots I bet n	msongs	Jan 2012	#1
That's a good question ...	aggiesal	Jan 2012	#5
Vargas is also a former insurance industry exec, a total shill.	Liberty Belle	Feb 2012	#30
maplight figures...	Sea star	Jan 2012	#6
Therein lies the tale.	Cleita	Jan 2012	#7
This a valuable info , thanks for posting	2banon	Feb 2012	#20
people should go to Sacramento and chant SHAME at them when they report to work.	alp227	Feb 2012	#28
They should do more than that. Organize and get them OUT of office!	Liberal_Stalwart71	Feb 2012	#37
primary challenges...	kenfrequed	Feb 2012	#52
yes there's the answer	Rosa Luxemburg	Feb 2012	#45
I'm in for a little punishment.	Cleita	Jan 2012	#2
Better to Occupy their offices in Sacramento and ....	Sea star	Jan 2012	#9
Well, I can't take off to go to Sacramento in a meaningful way and I think	Cleita	Jan 2012	#11
sounds good. at minimum, we should demand no party $$$ go to them	yurbud	Jan 2012	#12
I'm with ya..and i agree	2banon	Feb 2012	#21
Those ASS HOLES!!!	Plucketeer	Jan 2012	#3
Dah debbil made em do it.	Cleita	Jan 2012	#4
Now I feel foolish for having held out hope for this	CrawlingChaos	Jan 2012	#8
Okay for today, but then tomorrow...	Sea star	Jan 2012	#10
these guys go back to their district every friday	yurbud	Jan 2012	#13
I hope those who live in their districts and voted for them do that. n/t	Cleita	Jan 2012	#14
I'm with you...	Sea star	Jan 2012	#16
we also need to tell the state senate and state party leadership that this is unacceptable	yurbud	Jan 2012	#15
I was thinking that's what has happened and the players....	Sea star	Jan 2012	#17
The state party apparatus is also unacceptable	2banon	Feb 2012	#23
Replace Corporate DINOs with true Democrats	SHRED	Feb 2012	#18
thanks dems!	frylock	Feb 2012	#19
These tools have the blood of dead uninsured Californians on their hands!	SunSeeker	Feb 2012	#22
A poster up above posted about 'hold and release'....	Sea star	Feb 2012	#25
Someone should start a movement to send photos of dead unnsured people to these legisHaters.	Liberty Belle	Feb 2012	#27
I should send them a picture of my brother in Los Angeles...	SunSeeker	Feb 2012	#29
Do it! Please, for everyone who is uninsured.	Liberty Belle	Feb 2012	#31
Rube Goldberg.	CAPHAVOC	Feb 2012	#35
...makes me nuts.	SoapBox	Feb 2012	#24
Socialized Medicine or Every man for himself!	CAPHAVOC	Feb 2012	#33
Vargas may lose the party's endorsement over this.	Liberty Belle	Feb 2012	#26
shit, he was an INSURANCE EXEC? How was he able to run as a Dem in the first place?	yurbud	Feb 2012	#32
We should take them out in the primaries.	Firebrand Gary	Feb 2012	#34
What a shame.	YogiB	Feb 2012	#36
Dems who voted no or who abstained should be ashamed of themselves!	red dog 1	Feb 2012	#38
The fix was in	Chewiedog	Feb 2012	#39
sort of like Obama's limp push for the public option	yurbud	Feb 2012	#40
I can't add anything but my agreement.	senseandsensibility	Feb 2012	#41
Hitting the Nail on the Head	freethinker68	Feb 2012	#42
Government isn't the Mafia. One is legal and the other has always been illegal.	Cleita	Feb 2012	#43
at this point, terms like ''treason'' aren't helpful. We need to talk in terms of how to get from	yurbud	Feb 2012	#47
It's not my method. We have to take over from the inside and	Cleita	Feb 2012	#49
I was so despondent about this I was trying to look for a way to put a bow on the turd	yurbud	Feb 2012	#48
Just wondering, but	Johnson20	Feb 2012	#44
The bill has been all the way through the process twice, and the authors did their homework.	yurbud	Feb 2012	#46
Thank you.	Johnson20	Feb 2012	#50
This is my letter to CA Dem leaders demanding an explanation and how they'll improve	yurbud	Feb 2012	#51

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