What I expect Obama to say is things along the lines of "look, I'm trying to pass comprehensive health care reform... my party owns the two houses and I'm the president... but democrat x and democrat y are siding with the health care companies so I can't pass it". Then, the people who elected democrat x and democrat y can make a decision as to take them out or keep them in power. We need the politicians to finger out the bad apples.
We need to know. We demand to know.
Democracy is that mind-blowingly easy.
Great post. However, what happened what the exact opposite. Obama/Reid/Pelosi had to get anything, something, no matter how bad it was, slap a 'Health Care " label on it in order to justify ythe year they spent ignoring the economy while UE was still rising and to not look like utter fools.
Instead, they passed one of the worst bills ever, not to mention grossly ill-timed, that is ecxactly the opposite of what they promised.
And it is not as if some of us did not warn you guys all a long the way as to the disgusting deals and crooked back room arrangements that were made. We did! I was shouted down by the "ramn it through" crowd who cared not a lick about the details or funding mechanism of this mess and look where we are. UE still rising, premiuims going up, hospitals closing, states suing left and right since the medicaid unfunded mandates are a killer to the states, etc etc.
