Is this how it’s really going to play out? After the campaign to kick off the 2009 health care battle began with a blustery fire and brimstone burst of high-minded rhetoric, we’re going to fold up the tents and retreat from the battlefield claiming victory, waving a white flag at half mast as we dash toward our home districts for the August break ?
And are you really going to try to pin the blame on the Republicans? Yes, I know they are a bunch of obstructionist pricks, and yes, they more often behave like a group of extras from a D.W. Griffith movie than elected officials entrusted with representing ALL their constituents, but you have to admire the way they don’t form a circular firing squad when they pick a fight.
I am so fucking sick of Blue Dog Elephant Democrats, and I am so sick of trying not to get sick until we get a decent health care plan, and now I have come to the conclusion that the only way I’ll be able to obtain health care is to go on Arizona’s public program. My family actually brings home about 50k a year, and that still isn’t enough to afford health insurance.
I don’t know if Barry Crimmins was the first one to say it, but he sure said it eloquently: “Whoever introduced the profit motive to health care is an evil, evil man.” Even in a capitalist system, some things are off limits. Health care is one of them.
