Reply #2: This is almost exactly what I said last Thursday

[Tansy_Gold]

except you added a whole lot more -- and very welcome -- data to back it up.

I was flamed in various threads on DU, and I'm sure you will be too.

that, of course, doesn't change the fundamental truth: there will be nothing here that truly benefits the millions of uninsured and underinsured (including those who are insured but will have benefits denied for one cockamamie reason or another) either now or in four years, but the insurance companies -- meaning their stockholders and bloated executives -- will begin raking in the dough immediately.

Obama's place in history is secure. Regardless what he does or doesn't do in office, he's the first African-American president and no one can take that away from him. Unfortunately, it's beginning to look more and more to me like he made a whole lot of promises in order to achieve that, and didn't really care about keeping any of those promises.

We aren't out of Iraq and we're deeper than ever into Afghanistan.

Taxes haven't changed.

DADT and DOMA are still securely in place.

US companies are still shutting their US plants, ditching their US workers, and going merrily on their way to reap higher profits for their stockholders.

Wall Street is still happily rolling in barrels of taxpayer dough. The bankers are still making billions while the people who used to have jobs are watching as their homes and cars and dreams are repossessed.

Pelosi is raising funds from the health care lobbyists, Baucus hasn't stopped taking money from them, the 20% fringe nutcases are dictating the media agenda, and the whole fucking country is going to hell in a hand basket.


Tansy Gold