Posted on 12/18/2009 3:37:16 PM PST by nutsonthebus
In a stunning reversal of fortune for President Barack Obama, top progressives are attacking the health-reform plan moving through the Senate as “hollow,” “unsupportable” and a sellout to corporate interests.
Republicans, after plotting for months to sink the signature legislation of Obama’s first year, suddenly think that Democrats might wind up doing it for them.
Most dangerously for White House chances of assembling 60 Senate votes, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean launched a third day of attacks on the emerging bill, arguing in a Washington Post op-ed that it meets none of his benchmarks for “real reform
(Excerpt) Read more at daveweinbaum.com ...
“The facts of life are conservative”
The Best Story of the Year, providing many hours of listening pleasure to AIR AMERICA RADIO where all the angst is just too funny.
“I have concerns about some of the language that is being used because I saw — I saw this myself in the late ’70s in San Francisco, this kind of — of rhetoric was very frightening and it gave — it created a climate in which we — violence took place.” —— Pelosi.
Is that obscure outfit still around?
Dean and Olberman, bless their coal black hearts, are actually correct. With a mandate but no public option it would be a huge windfall for insurance companies (draconian limits will not prevail).
Ha! Ha! It’s not nice to try and fool Mother Capitalism.
Listening each evening has become a little bit addictive.
Afterall, where else would one learn things ... like... that Dennis Kucinich is the ONLY real progressive, and only he and Howard Dean can be trusted.
I guess some people like to watch Science Fiction on TV, but currently AIR AMERICA is really really truly "Out There," LOL
It's street theater, LOL
I seriously thought that airhead amerika had folded, but that must have been just in my area, D/FW. I used to listen to it too - for entertainment value. It’s hard to believe some people are really that deranged and “mis”wired.
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