Last night, Americans who care about real health care reform were treated to an early Christmas gift.
The ten Democratic members of the United States Senate who were tasked by Democratic Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid (D-NV), to kill a public option while he sat in a corner, curled up, shaking and hugging his knees, have in fact scuttled the last vestige of real health care reform.
And the weak, pathetic, immoral, failed Democratic Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, unable to live up to his title of Leader, has embraced the horror.
As we reflect on how quickly the five supposedly liberal senators who participated in the rapid negotiation to kill a public option folded like cheap lawn chairs, let’s not forget to ask ourselves why Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), was not even asked to join this gang of ten.
Senator Sanders has acknowledged that “the overwhelming majority of Americans want to be able to choose between a strong public option and a private insurance plan” and correctly points out that “without that competition, there is very little in this bill that would keep health insurance premiums from escalating rapidly.”
There were five supposedly liberal senators and there were five so-called “moderate” senators, but Sanders was not allowed into the room.
By not allowing Senator Bernie Sanders to participate in this closed-door discussion, Senator Harry Reid slapped the face of every Democrat across the United States who supports real health care reform and who believes that the creation of a public option was a minimum requisite for the reform to be real.
Let no one forget that Senator Harry Reid led the way in killing a public health insurance option.
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And while real reform was being thrown out with the trash, Obama sent out this email last night asking for money to help reform health care:
How shameless.
Obama is asking for money from people who can’t afford to give it, asking them to trust him to help them, asking them to put all their hopes in him, at the very same time that he’s letting them all down.
Reid’s downfall next year will be a huge statement of dissatisfaction with Obama’s failure to lead on health care reform.
I am sooo disapointed! This was our GREAT hope at change! BULLSHIT They all lie
I’d say i’m disappointed, but it’d be an understatement. The anger will come out soon. Right now I’m just speechless.
Dear Senator Sanders,
Please join republicans and stop this from coming to an up-or-down vote.
Don’t do it because they disrespected you by shutting you out of the discussion when they ruined health care reform.
Do it because they slapped us all in the face by shutting you out of the discussion.
Oppose it from coming to an up-or-down vote for us!
Let no one forget that Reid failed to lead. period. Obama failed to lead.
Where are the leaders in the Democratic Party? Why are progressives in congress folding?
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