Comments on: Reid’s Gang of Ten Strikes Deal to ‘Satisfy Everybody’ But Where is Public Option? http://chattahbox.com/us/2009/12/09/reids-gang-of-ten-strikes-deal-to-satisfy-everybody-but-where-is-public-option/ When There's News, Get Ready For Lots Of Chattah! Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:26:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Teabaggers to ‘Storm Senate’ and Drop Dead for Liberty | ChattahBox News Blog http://chattahbox.com/us/2009/12/09/reids-gang-of-ten-strikes-deal-to-satisfy-everybody-but-where-is-public-option/comment-page-1/#comment-37639 Teabaggers to ‘Storm Senate’ and Drop Dead for Liberty | ChattahBox News Blog Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:24:28 +0000 http://chattahbox.com/?p=11150#comment-37639 [...] deluded teabaggers must be protesting government run Medicare. Perhaps they haven’t heard: the public option is [...] [...] deluded teabaggers must be protesting government run Medicare. Perhaps they haven’t heard: the public option is [...]

]]> By: 5 reasons why, if it’s as advertised, the Senate healthcare compromise might be a good thing : The Reid Report http://chattahbox.com/us/2009/12/09/reids-gang-of-ten-strikes-deal-to-satisfy-everybody-but-where-is-public-option/comment-page-1/#comment-37580 5 reasons why, if it’s as advertised, the Senate healthcare compromise might be a good thing : The Reid Report Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:26:54 +0000 http://chattahbox.com/?p=11150#comment-37580 [...] the “public option” is a plan to give the uninsured access to non-profit health plans administered by the Office of Personnel management, the same federal agency that oversees the health plans of federal employees and members of [...] [...] the “public option” is a plan to give the uninsured access to non-profit health plans administered by the Office of Personnel management, the same federal agency that oversees the health plans of federal employees and members of [...]

]]> By: Old Man Dotes http://chattahbox.com/us/2009/12/09/reids-gang-of-ten-strikes-deal-to-satisfy-everybody-but-where-is-public-option/comment-page-1/#comment-37576 Old Man Dotes Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:52:28 +0000 http://chattahbox.com/?p=11150#comment-37576 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!" 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!”

]]> By: Tom Degan http://chattahbox.com/us/2009/12/09/reids-gang-of-ten-strikes-deal-to-satisfy-everybody-but-where-is-public-option/comment-page-1/#comment-37572 Tom Degan Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:53:09 +0000 http://chattahbox.com/?p=11150#comment-37572 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 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

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