I get it, now.

[velvetpage]

I finally understand why support is falling for the health care reform as proposed. It's because you guys managed to elect the most cowardly bunch of idiots in the history of politics to do it for you. And it's not your fault - because the party that should have been doing it, not only didn't do it, but probably messed it up so badly that no one else will ever get the chance to do it right.

They should have gone for single-payer from the outset and then SETTLED for a robust public option. Now? Totally, completely fucked.

Comments

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

But taking that line at the beginning, and then compromising on an unwatered-down public option, would have been preferable to starting out with the unwatered-down public option and ending up with the watered-down version.

[kisekileia.livejournal.com]

It would have, except that the level of freak-out from the right might have sunk the bill altogether. It's a difficult political calculation.

[bodhifox.livejournal.com]

This is an accurate assessment, as evidenced by the furor over the speech to students.

[thexphial.livejournal.com]

Except that it wouldn't have ended up with a non-watered-down public option, it would have ended in abandoning the idea AGAIN.