Who will you be most angry with if health care reform fails?

[kentuck]

Poll question: Who will you be most angry with if health care reform fails?

Or perhaps, better phrased, who will piss you off the most?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

1. The Blue Dogs and the Republicans.

It's obvious why I say the Blue Dogs. But I think we constantly leave out the Republicans. Maybe because we expect shitty behavior from them.

[Warpy]

4. They should be irrelevant

because there are 60 Democrats in the Senate. In addition, there is always the nuclear option, something that should be done in a case as important as this one. They have the numbers to do the right thing without considering the opposition, at all.

If this fails, it will be the Democrats in Congress who are at fault, period.

Expect a repeat of the bloodbath of 1994 if they screw this up again. It's the only thing that can put the Republicans back into power, and it will.

[kentuck]

5. You may be right.

I hope they remember.

[bvar22]

14. I EXPECT Republicans to act like Republicans.

That is why I support the Democratic Party.

I am outraged when Democrats act like Republicans.
I expect more from them.

I can't blame a dog for being a dog.
I can blame a Human Being who acts like a dog.

[WI_DEM]

2. It's not going to fail. We will get it and with a public option.

[bvar22]

15. We will get something the "Centrists" call a "Public Option".

However, according to HR 3200, the "Public Option" isn't going to be available to "The Public".

[kentuck]

3. Thanks for the unrecommend..

whoever? and for whatever reason?

[xultar]

7. Maybe people don't like polls on the greatest page. I know I don't.

[AndyTiedye]

6. The Media

[cynatnite]

8. the media, the repukes, weak dems...

It'd be a lot and I couldn't single out just one.

[tigereye]

9. actually Waxman did a fair job explaining some of this

(granted it was on The Daily Show)


Has anyone read parts of the proposed bill? I'm not sure I know enough about the provisions to vote here.

[swishyfeet]

12. That Daily Show was odd

I don't recall Waxman being such a charismatic black hole. I'm not sure he does well speaking to Jon and Stephen.

[swishyfeet]

10. Obama - for not supporting single payer?

What does that have to do with it failing? If he was pushing single payer it would only fail with more certainty. A public "option" is reasonable, easily defended, and won't immediately kill the insurance companies. Imagine the fight from those parasites if he proposed single payer!

I wan't SOME reform, so I support his pragmatism.

[texasleo]

11. Obama

[Umbral]

13. The Blue Dogs and I don't care how damned red their district is, it's worth losing re-election over

[slipslidingaway]

16. Obama and the Democratic politicians n/t