IS MONEY.

I don't have any way to put aside the fact that MONEY should not be controlling this debate.

Now you probably make enough money that no matter what happens, you'll still have your insurance. Through you rich parents, or your government job or whatever.

And it doesn't bother you that MORALLY it is reprehensible as HELL that the lobbyists are pushing so much of this puzzle piece. This puzzle piece BTW controls my life. I spent two of the last five years dealing with the Hellacious Monsters known as the Insurance industry. As far as I am concerned, the CEO's of those corporations should be in a maximum security prison, not giving the Obama administration $ 30,000 a head so they can have a seat at the table for the "reform" discussions.


Also, Obama spent ALL OF LAST YEAR running around this nation promising us that he was Change that you can believe in. Then he gets in office, and his new message - IMMEDIATELY AND NOT EVEN A WEEK AFTER BEING SWORN IN - was that he would be "conciliatory."

Well then somehow "Conciliatory" trumps being the Change that we can believe in.

Broken is his promise to keep lobbyists out of the governing decisions of his Administration

Broken is his promise to see that the legislative bills that are written are small enough, manageable enough to be clear to the public. We have spent a whole summer on this issue, and we have no clear vision of what ultimately will be the bill. Right now we have the Baucus bill plus three or four others. (And Waxman's committee's bill is just as lengthy as the Baucus bill,a nd has a lot if industry give aways.)

You can MONETARILY afford to have another Republican-lite President. I cannot.

It's not just the health care issue - it's many issues. It's Velsick and Taylor as well!
I don't want Monsanto GMO food, as it will prove to lead to famine. I don't want Monsanto FDA rulings. I don't want Geithenr/Bernanke Wall Street giveaways (Totaling two to three trillion to date, while California gets frozen out of our governor's request for some small change to help us avert a calamity!)

Barack Obama's Presidency makes me long for the original;l Republican-lite President, Bill Clinton, because he stood up to the banksters. (Though I can never forgive him for NAFTA.) At this point in time, I cannot believe that I saw Barack Obama as being more progressive than Hillary, and choose him over her a year ago.

But like I say, it all comes down to money. Those of you on DU who can support this new Republican-lite style Administration usually have a lot more money than those of us who are truly progressive, and are of the Teddy Kennedy-style Democratic party and not the rotten to the core Rahm Emmanual style Democratic party now in fashion.