ALL THOSE NEW VOTERS, WITH ALL THEIR "ENTHUSIASM" - YEAH THAT WAS A GREAT IDEA
When you see the left wing applauding Dodd's departure(and Dodd may not be a saint, but he's a damn GOOD man, and he knows how to turn the levers of government, not an easy task), it's pretty easy to see where this is headed. Not many Democratic senators are going to be willing to fall on their swords like Dodd did, which means big losses for us, and just f'ing doom for our country.

I'm so upset about Dodd, I'd like to smack someone, but I guess I'll just wipe a few tears and move on.

So, it looks like we're on our way to handing the GOP another majority in Congress. Thanks so much extreme left, brain-washed by MSNBC, HuffPo, DailyKos, etc., for unrealistically, immaturely, throwing out "the good," in pursuant of the impossibly "perfect," and in reality handing us the "worst possible," AGAIN. Good job. Enjoy your pure principles while the republicans repeal health care reform and anything else that could ACTUALLY help people. Thanks, thanks a bunch.

All these people, SO unhappy with Obama and the Dems, who frankly, didn't pay ANY attention during the election, or they just don't have the vaguest clue how goverment works, are not only cutting off their noses to spite THEIR faces, they're going to lop off all our noses.

It's nice to have new blood and new enthusiasm in the party, ain't it? Particularly, when that new blood self-destructs out of their own ignorance and blows us all up. Were they paying ANY attention AT ALL during the election to what Obama was proposing in terms of health care reform? Cause we're getting MORE than he even proposed, but no we can't be satisfied with people actually delivering what they promised - we're democrats, masters of self-defeat.

Obama DID NOT promote the public option during the election, and I've posted this video and the dozens just like it a 100 times. How can people not know this?


And even if there are some differences, did you think there wouldn't be? Really? Did you think one of the most difficult reforms in our country's history would be so simply and perfectly achieved? Besides, IF we keep "the trigger," in the final bill, THERE IS YOUR PUBLIC OPTION REALIZED!

And before you people start, yes Obama did MENTION the public option at least once. I've seen that grainy video too, that looks like cell phone video, from some union event or something, and it was more of a philosophical discussion if you ask me. He DID not promise it in his platform or anywhere else that was significant, NEITHER did Hillary Clinton. And from the moment she started talking about allowing us access to "the same insurance Congress has," I recognized that as code for - this is the way to universal, government run health care. We've already discovered (again recently as well), that you can't ram the kind of universal care we all want through the front door, but rather, you have to sneak it in the back.

I'll be signing up for that non-profit Congressional coverage the second it's available, IF the GOP doesn't take over Congress and repeal it by then, and before you say, that is not government run, I KNOW, just like Medicaid and Medicare are ADMINISTERED here in Alabama by BCBS, but BCBS doesn't set the rules, or profit from that administration other than a flat rate they are paid. This is very common in other states as well, and it is the only thing insurance companies are good for IMO.

I've studied both bills as they came out of the houses of Congress, and I suspect the final bill will mirror the Senate bill, but they will hide some more good stuff in there first that they can count on the blue dogs, etc. to vote for in order to hold that shaky 60 votes. It may not be the kind of outright, blow-the-doors-off reform we would all like, ideally, but it IS a damn great start, the first step, and something that the American people will end up liking very much and wanting refined and expanded. THAT is the critical point.

Also, I'm just really amazed that the Dems in the Senate get NO credit for working like mad men and woman all the way up to Christmas Eve, trying to force this baby to be born. Nothing, nada, not a shred of credit for the valiant fight they put up. Well, actually, that's not true. MOST democrats get it, understand what they were up against and what they did, but there are enough of the MSNBC heads to F up the entire thing.

So, in closing, if you think Pres. Obama's not keeping his promises, here's a fact check on that:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/browse/

Frankly, I'm astonished at how many of those promises he's kept or are on the way to being kept, in less than a year, but then I'm not some political novice who believes in magic or super heros.