Six Smart Progressive Complaints About House Health Bill
Submitted by Chip on Tue, 2009-11-10 19:02.
Six Smart Progressive Complaints About House Health Bill
By John Nichols | The Nation
...Here are six smart progressive complaints about the House bill:
1. FROM CONGRESSMAN ERIC MASSA: "This Bill Will Enshrine in Law the Monopolistic Powers of the Private Health Insurance Industry"
2. FROM THE CALIFORNIA NURSES ASSOCIATION: This Bill Fails to Control Costs
3. FROM THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN: "This Bill Obliterates Women's Fundamental Right to Choose"
4. FROM PLANNED PARENTHOOD'S CECILE RICHARDS: This Bill Embraces Religious-Right Extremes
5. FROM CONGRESSMAN DENNIS KUCINICH: This Bill Worries About the Health of Wall Street, Not America
6. FROM "SICKO'S" DONNA SMITH: The Bill Does Not Cure What Ails Us Read more.
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Prog Dogs exhibit Corporate Behaviors
It may be hard for us to get our heads around the votes of Conyers, Grijalva, and other Prog Dogs Saturday who voted for a bill they rightly threatened not to, but if you see their behavior as "classically corporate," it all makes sense in a perverted way.
What is corporate behavior?
In the corporate world, there are the powerful and those that do the bidding of the powerful.
There are those who read what's in the suggestion box (if they bother read any at all) and those who stuff the box with ideas.
There are those who use power and others on which power is used.
You get the idea.
Well, the Prog Dogs stuffed the suggestion box all spring and summer with notes calling for what the majority of American people have wanted for decades. But when it was time to "call the question," Conyers, Grijalva, et. al. did the corporate thing - bowing to power and voting YES.
On the other hand, the (corporate) Blue Dogs called their bosses names in public all summer, demanded that their bosses toe the line on the public option, and in the end refused to do their bosses bidding by voting NO. Hardly corporate.
It is time for a drastic change in thinking AND BEHAVING on the Left. We are getting savaged by the current political calculus. Actually, it's been going on for decades. We soldier on, but to what end?
Our votes are meaningless. A vote for Conyers is a vote for Pelosi, apparently. Our allegiance is taken for granted certainly.
Corporate behaving "radicals." Really hard to comprehend, right?
Former Democrat Senate staffer and political insider Lawrence O'Donnell said in an interview, "The Left? Frankly, we never considered them. After all, where are they going to go?"
Good question.