"Health care reform â" which is crucial for millions of Americans â" hangs in
the balance. Progressives are desperately in need of leadership; more
specifically, House Democrats need to be told to pass the Senate bill, which
isnât what they wanted but is vastly better than nothing. And what we get
from the great progressive hope, the man who was offering hope and change, is
this:
I would advise that we try to move quickly to coalesce around those
elements of the package that people agree on. We know that we need insurance
reform, that the health insurance companies are taking advantage of people. We
know that we have to have some form of cost containment because if we donât,
then our budgets are going to blow up and we know that small businesses are
going to need help so that they can provide health insurance to their families.
Those are the core, some of the core elements of, to this bill. Now I think
thereâs some things in there that people donât like and legitimately
donât like.
In short, âRun away, run awayâ!
Maybe House Democrats can pull this out, even with a gaping hole in White House
leadership. Barney Frank seems to have thought better of his initial defeatism.
But I have to say, Iâm pretty close to giving up on Mr. Obama, who seems
determined to confirm every doubt I and others ever had about whether he was
ready to fight for what his supporters believed in."
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http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/he-wasnt-the-one-weve-been-waiting-for/
"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything." - -- Malcolm
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