On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:13:23 -0500, Vic Smith wrote:


Without a "public option" there will be no progress with health care
reform until things really go to hell in a handbasket. In the meantime
the only winners will be the insurance companies and health care
companies.
Obama has a big speech next week.
If he doesn't demand a public option he loses. Be interesting to see if
his guts match the Dem numbers in Congress. That's my opinion.
I don't see much guts in the Dem party. They should be kicking ass and
telling the Reps to go get ****ed, including the town hall whiners
sucking Medicare tit and wanting all that milk just for themselves.
Elections count. Supposed to anyway.

Hear, hear. I agree completely. In many ways, Obama's administration is
riding on the outcome of health care reform. The Democrats have the
numbers. Obama needs to quit playing softball. I'd feel a little more
confident is Reid was a little tougher, because someone has to get the
Democrats playing hard ball.