White House Believes 'Liberal Angst' Over Healthcare Will Go Away
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Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
White House Believes 'Liberal Angst' Over Healthcare Will Go Away
by Donna Smith
In an NPR story this week, White House aides and Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer summed it up: (
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12... )
White House aides believe a lot of the liberal angst about health care will go away once the president actually signs a bill. And to the extent that the Democrats have a problem motivating their core voters, they've got time to fix it.
"We're not overly concerned about these things, first and foremost because there isn't an election tomorrow, not an election the next day," says Dan Pfeiffer, White House communications director.Our angst will not go away anytime soon.
When we see our paystubs and our tax returns reflect the collection of our hard-earned money for the huge bail-out of the for-profit, private insurance industry instead of for the guaranteed right to healthcare, we will feel angst. When we are forced to purchase the defective financial product sold to us as health insurance or face penalties or even criminal charges, we will feel angst.
When we continue to have trouble affording truly comprehensive health coverage that provides a single standard of high quality care for all, we will feel angst.
When we cannot see a doctor without paying a big co-pay or deductible, when we bury a child whose treatment was denied by the insurance company, when we avoid seeking care because we cannot afford our medicines, when our employers cut our benefits to avoid paying the excise tax, when the insurance company CEOs continue to earn mega-salaries, obscene bonuses and retire with huge golden parachutes funded by our tax subsidies, when thousands of our neighbors and friends still go bankrupt because their coverage just wasn't good enough to protect them - oh, we will feel angst.
I am sorry, Dan, this is an angst that is loaded down with intense human suffering. It isn't just political or ethical or intellectual bantering angst. It is very real human angst caused by those with prideful, haughty attitudes who cared little about promises made and the human right to healthcare so boldly proclaimed.
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Another reason this WH really is no different than GWB.
This is no different than GWB in 2005 when he tried amnesty and though the base would come back.
Good luck Obama - you truly are a POFS!
