21 October 2009

Democrats ready to throw their majority away and accomplish nothing

So I was watching the news channels yesterday and much hoopla was made over a Washington Post poll that showed 1) the Republican party is on the endangered species list thanks largely to the religious zealots who have take it over 2) America believes in it's President and 3) the Democratic Congress isn't faring much better than Republicans. Now while the 1st two points were discussed ad nauseum the 3rd point didn't get much air time at all. I suspect the reason for this is that a jaded American electorate is waiting to see if the Democrats, who have run the Congress the last 3 odd years and rode to a majority on President Obama's coattails, will finally deliver real change we can all believe in on health care and such. Well America, the answer seems to be leaning towards no. While the Republicans are in disarray, the Democrats in Congress are playing the same old politics, frittering away their majority to just please campaign donors. Afraid to lose their campaign money donated by the insurance companies and certain health care "professionals", the Dems are willing to let the American public hang from the neck until dead on key, critical issues such as the Public Option despite their clear majority and their mandate from the People. It's enough to make a cynic like myself bitter(er) and left to speculate whether all this talk about bipartasanship from the Democrats wasn't just a smokescreen for their spineless, wishy washy governing. The Dems were never going to pass anything with real reform like a Single Payer system or a Public Option; it was all bullshit to cover their own asses. That way their financial contributors stay happy and they could publically blame Republicans for such weak health care reform. Seemed like a cinch after August and those rowdy town hall meetings across the land because (thanks in large part to the Republican news channel Fix... I mean Fox news) nobody really believed the American public wanted it. Now the Dems have their cover blown as poll after poll shows that >gasp!<>really do want free health care! Oh you should see some Democrats backpeddaling and trying to find cover like Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. I thought I liked Reid until yesterday but with his tlak about discussions about maybe talking about discussing the Public Option made me realize he's just another politician who doesn't give 2 squirts of piss about my kids, any of you or myself even while he himself enjoys the benefit of free health care that all members of Congress enjoy at our expense. Worse, half the Dems in office are exactly the same way! What the hell man?!? Ugh! Well they better get their act together or they will have very good reason to worry about their re-election bids. We Americans replace elected officials who don't do the job we elected them to do in the 1st place. The only problem is that until America develops more than a 2 party system, those replacement will be Republicans whether I like it or not (and I don't). But what else can we Americans do? The fix is in. And the Dems are going with the status quo to keep it that way.

1 comment:

  1. I share your frustration but I am still hopeful as i see some movement in congress toward a real public option.

    love, john + http://www.abundancetrek.com + “You do not need to do anything; you do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You do not even need to listen; just wait. You do not even need to wait; just become still, quiet and solitary and the world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet." -- Franz Kafka

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