9 December 2009: Health Care or Wealth Care:
Another Deadline Looms
Having
decided I have nothing more to say, having determined what really needs to be
done, induced evolution, I realized, after reading today's news, that we can
move in that direction by supporting whatever health-care legislation Congress
can pass, for this simple reason:
Obama's was a protest victory rather than a mandate for Progressive action. Moderates, the true majority in this country, joined with liberal Republicans and all Democrats to elect Obama. I think the color of his skin had very little to do with it, though I do rejoice with the Afro-American population for this historic victory.
I have read a summary of the legislative compromise in the Senate announced by Majority Leader Harry Reid, who is, by the way, antichoice.
Here is today's New York Times report-- www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/health/policy/10health.htm -- on as much information as Reid divulged. Details are forthcoming.
Having read also that House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers disagreed with Obama to the point that the president protested and Conyers publicized it, I sent him this note (not all of it is quotedà ‚¬"I left out my views on troop escalation in Afghanistan), adding since I wrote the note that Senator Russ Feingold also objects to the present form of the legislation:
à ‚¬Å"I think it is of CRITICAL AND CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE that we get behind any healthcare legislation we can before Election 2010, or there will be none at all, given O's ratings and the insecurity of the moderates--4 senators representing the majority of this country.
It's now or never, folks. People have a lot to gain from even the Senate compromise. We need to get behind it. Spin those wheels. If Mr. Conyers and Mr. Kucinich withdraw their support at the ultimate decisive moment, then they will be joining their true opponents and really letting the people down.
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