“This bill WAS NOT the best we can do.”
The bill was a shit sandwich, but the last one we’ll have a chance of passing.
The next healthcare bill we be single payer and it will pass both houses, to be signed by this president.
Oh B. S.
Good grief folks, you’ve gone to the dark side.
Please, wake up!
I have no doubt that we’re are going to get some version of a public option. At least with this version, PP would have been gone. You think we are ever getting rid of PP now? Thats why even though I hate Pelosi, the democrats stick together and get stuff done, even if flawed. They knew Obamacare was crap but they passed it anyway, knowing the a public option would replace it. But what does the FC do? Deny our president an important, momentum building victory and now look where we are? Fighting amongst each other and looking like idiots! I’m with you Mariner, the repubs screwed up big time!
A Mariner will understand this story.
Imagine then a fleet or a ship in which there is a captain who is taller and stronger than any of the crew, but he is a little deaf and has a similar infirmity in sight, and his knowledge of navigation is not much better. The sailors are quarreling with one another about the steering––every one is of the opinion that he has a right to steer, though he has never learned the art of navigation and cannot tell who taught him or when he learned, and will further assert that it cannot be taught, and they are ready to cut in pieces any one who says the contrary. They throng about the captain, begging and praying him to commit the helm to them; and if at any time they do not prevail, but others are preferred to them, they kill the others or throw them overboard, and having first chained up the noble captain’s senses with drink or some narcotic drug, they mutiny and take possession of the ship and make free with the stores; thus, eating and drinking, they proceed on their voyage in such a manner as might be expected of them....
Ship of fools is an allegory, originating from Book VI of Plato’s Republic, about a ship with a dysfunctional crew:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_fools