Reply #235: I completely agree

[DeschutesRiver]

I was more positive a few days ago about health care reform than I am now. I've watched the events of the last 48 hours and had a seismic change in my attitude. It isn't about Obama, who I still greatly admire and who I think is making the best of really bad situtations facing our country.

It is the damned Congress. Smug bastards living on nearly 200k a year, who refuse to give SS peeps a COLA raise, but won't be denied their own annual pay raise. Who've enjoyed better healthcare than the rest of us for decades and who are seeking to deny healthcare to the citizens who pay the bill for them and their families.

This was the first election ever that I donated tons of money to, and I am almost 52 years old. I will bide my time and hope for the best in how this health care dilemma resolves itself, but mark my words - I am an Independant who voted in every Democrat I could in order to get some relief from the crazy Republicans of the last 8 years. I was elated to see that Dems finally had a majority, only to discover that many of those elected Dems are behaving in a very undemocratic way - this has also disgusted me more than anything I've ever seen, even as you said, more so than the loss to Bush. I've never been this angry over the actions of the party I chose to help promote to power.

Both Democratic house and senate folk are making me sick to my stomach. If the majority of Democrats can't get me and my family, and everyone else's family decent health care, I will either not vote or vote straight Republican to see how many democrats can sit at home in 2010. I won't be fooled again, nor will I continue to enable those I vote into office to screw me on an issue like health care, as they sit back frigging smug as all get out demanding that I pay for theirs. No frigging way.

Health care reform, with a the majority dems enjoy, should be a cakewalk - it isn't that hard or complicated. However, there is simply more dems than I previously understood who do not want it to happen and are actively trying to take this away from me, my family and your family.

I can't believe I could say it, but I'd rather seeing frigging Sarah Palin in the WH than to let democrats who let me down on the health care issue enjoy their frigging perks for one more term. I hope the democratic majority does the right thing, even if on health care it is only a foot in the door - but let them continue balking and whining and taking money from the HC and pharma industry instead of tending to my needs, and I will do what I have to do in the voting booth.

If I even bother going to vote. And I will never donate another dime if this is the result with a democratic majority, it simply wasn't worth the money and time I put into it. I need to look after myself, not pad their pockets. Let them get donations from their insurance/pharma/oil/war buddies. I am just a bit red hot angry at recent events, and hope I cool down before 2010.