Reply #8: Sentence that resonates for me:

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Meanwhile the Democrats spent the health care debate fleeing from their own base, a move that… well, I don’t know what it means, exactly, but it does make me a little ill.

It means that the Centrist Dems REAL BASE is the warmongering, GMO food altering, elderly, gay and women's rights avoiding Corporate Puppet Masters. And to stay in power with them in charge, they need lots of Kabuki Theater. How else can anyone explain their HC "Reform" bill that is ponly a fraction of what it could have been.

I could understand this piece of legislation except that:

1) When the Centrist Dems achieved their Nov 2008 victory, 62% of all Americans voted Mr Obama in. He had a mandate and a bully pulpit, and he chosse to avoid the bully pulpit while hoping the momentum would go away. (Sixty eight to seventy six percent of all Americans want something similar to MediCare for all, or Universal SP Health Care for all.)

2) But the momentum did not go away. By November 12th 2010, we have Olbermann trumpeting the fact that the legislative votes for Public Option are at hand. He has speakers on his show that trumpet that fact with him.

3) Luckily for the WH, over the next two weeks, they had the energy to make the phone calls to drive away that movement toward a serious Public Option. Without those actions, they would not have been able to keep their pledges to the Corporate Masters.