tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512362.post935282198443978860..comments2024-03-10T13:59:19.230-04:00Comments on xpostfactoid: Chait's crucial warning to DemocratsAndrew Sprunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17601269968798865106noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512362.post-5260315132975841212010-01-20T07:56:53.032-05:002010-01-20T07:56:53.032-05:00Spot on Daveb.
The House wants a better bill. Th...Spot on Daveb.<br /><br />The House wants a better bill. There are Senators that want a better bill. I think there's enough of them for 51 votes.<br /><br />Dave is right. They need to stop talking about spin and start taking steps to make that bill better and then pass it.Sebastianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08688256778151544515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512362.post-32760921999829613492010-01-20T01:35:48.837-05:002010-01-20T01:35:48.837-05:00Spin spin spin...Fact is, people know this Democra...Spin spin spin...Fact is, people know this Democratic version of HCR is a terrible idea. Progressives are tone deaf and incapable of real reform. Progressive lust for massive regulation, out of control mandates, high taxes, and contemp for free markets have doomed real reform that could make American health care the envy of the entire world.<br /><br /> I hope Obama is intelligent enough to realize this, as was Bill Clinton in 1995. What we got from that is welfare reform and a zero-sum budget process.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03683379339902504691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512362.post-86197090209197910102010-01-20T00:22:49.363-05:002010-01-20T00:22:49.363-05:00If the perception was that Obama was fighting hard...If the perception was that Obama was fighting hard to get our money back from Wall Street, was less interested in appeasing Snowe and especially Lieberman (getting his vote was politically emasculating), then a Brown victory would be less painful. <br /><br />His pitifully weak flank is the Senate, where he's either too polite, misinformed or too weak to force Harry Reid to take bills to reconciliation. I thought Rahm was an "attack dog"? <br /><br />The problems we face are too big for the watered down solutions that 60 votes gets you.Sebastianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08688256778151544515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512362.post-18660554541266757432010-01-19T15:07:51.495-05:002010-01-19T15:07:51.495-05:00Amen for sanity--and thanks for the reminder that ...Amen for sanity--and thanks for the reminder that so many Democratic presidential/electoral woes were due solely to civil rights legislation, a fact the Republicans desperately want to avoid. (I would add, parenthetically, that inept campaigning or being outmatched in the media played a major role in the Dems' two biggest losses: 1972 and 1984. 1972 had an improperly vetted, then withdrawn VP candidate.)Gregnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512362.post-17492271078618022502010-01-19T13:28:46.279-05:002010-01-19T13:28:46.279-05:00Thank you for some sanity. Excellent post.Thank you for some sanity. Excellent post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com