We could get a government that responds to the health care crisis by writing a bill based on a deal it cuts with insurance companies and pharmaceutical corporations. Even though these insurance companies add nothing whatsoever to the delivery of health care, and even though they eat up in profit and overhead one out of every three dollars spent for health care, this government could pass legislation forcing forty million Americans to buy their product.
If we don't buck up here, people, we could wind up with a government that refuses to stand up for the public interest and continues to be a shill for Wall Street, corporations and other plutocrats, even foreign ones.
You see what I mean? See how much worse things could be!
Like I said: Phew! That was a close one. I almost made a big mistake this election season.
The president and vice president are correct. There's a lot at stake here. If we progressives -- even those few non-professional lefties among us who just happen to care about their country without even getting paid for it -- don't start getting energized, and soon, we could wind up having a government as awful in every way as the one described above.
Moreover, the president was right when he said that his administration was the "most successful in a generation in moving progressive agendas forward." Of course, he didn't mention that the presidents of the last generation were Reagan, Daddy Bush, Clinton and Baby Bush. Some might complain that such a claim would be like Mao bragging that he had murdered fewer peasants than Stalin, but I say they're splitting hairs. Obama is more progressive than any of those other cats!
"I hear these people saying he's like George Bush," Press Secretary Robert Gibbs recently exclaimed. "Those people ought to be drug tested. I mean, it's crazy."
Yeah, no kidding, bro. The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress acting like a bunch of right-wing Republicans?!?!
Now that's a truly crazy thought.
Not to mention "inexcusable" and "irresponsible," too.
Oh, and don't forget "whiney."(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
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