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Reid’s Gang of Ten Strikes Deal to ‘Satisfy Everybody’ But Where is Public Option?

December 9, 2009

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4 Responses to “Reid’s Gang of Ten Strikes Deal to ‘Satisfy Everybody’ But Where is Public Option?”

  1. Tom Degan on December 9th, 2009 10:53 am

    Isn’t Harry Reid wonderful? It’s people like he and Joe Liebermann that made me leave the Democratic party over a decade ago.

    The public option is obviously as dead as a doornail. My advice to the progressives is to take what they can get now.

    I don’t know what kind of health care reform will come out of this session, but I strongly suspect it won’t be much. There is, however a silver lining behind this very dark cloud. I am reminded of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Don’t be embarrassed if you’ve never heard of it, there really isn’t a hell of a lot to remember about it; a mere pittance, really – a scrap of leftovers tossed out to “American Negros” (in the parlance of the age) in order to appease them. But it made the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 – the one we remember – all-the-more easier seven years later.

    We’ll live to fight another day.

    http://www.tomdegan.blogspot.com

    Tom Degan

  2. Old Man Dotes on December 9th, 2009 12:52 pm

    Wealthy old White men don’t need a “public option.” That’s for those poor people who don’t donate $millions to election campaigns, so what good are they to the Senate?

    I am reminded of Mel Brooks’ “History of the World, Part 1″ in which the Roman Senate chorused, “SCREW the people!”

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