"The Bill I Sign MUST Include the Public Option"

[Bluebear]

Obama Demands: The Bill I Sign Must Include Public Option
By Brian Beutler - July 20, 2009, 10:16AM

While we're talking health care reform: In his weekly radio address on Saturday, President Obama did what he's refused to do all along--he said the public option isn't an option at all.



http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/obama-demands-the-bill-i-sign-must-include-public-option.php

[Orrex]

1. That's good news

It'll help me get treatment for the whiplash I've suffered trying to follow this damn thing.

[Captain Hilts]

3. It's dated July 20th....nt

[Orrex]

13. Doh!

Add an eye exam to my list of things to do.

[Captain Hilts]

14. But your original comment still holds. nt

[dflprincess]

23. The last I heard,

neither the House nor Senate bill requires "coverage" for adult vision or dental.

[Orrex]

26. I see.

Or I don't.


Gosh! I just can't make up my mind!

[SHRED]

2. That was then

[Captain Hilts]

4. And now is now. We've been played. nt

[BrklynLiberal]

6. One could certainly draw that conclusion

x(

[SHRED]

7. Corporatism trumping Populism...nothing new

[SammyWinstonJack]

46. We were played and they were paid...off.

x( :shrug:

[piratefish08]

5. quick! look over there.........

now what were you saying?......

[Name removed]

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[piratefish08]

9. ouch

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/32724437#32724437

[WillyT]

10. That Was Before The Republicans Scared The Shit Out Of The Democrats...

And we the people got left in the lurch...

Sigh...

:shrug:

[Donnachaidh]

43. sorry -- I'm not giving the dems or Obama a pass because they were *skeerd* by Republicans

That's yet more *amateur thespian politics*. Good excuse to fall back to what they always planned, which is a bail out of the insurance industry.

[readmoreoften]

51. Aw. Poor babies are askeered of der pretty bipartisanship.

[SHRED]

11. Depends on what "must" means

[amborin]

27. LOL!

[Bluebear]

30. :nodding:

[Bluebear]

31. :nodding:

[bvar22]

12. !

Check out this video on the "Cadillac Tax":

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x420430



"I am not a crook."

"I did not have sex with THAT woman."

"I did not campaign on a Public Option."

[jody]

15. But there has been lots of HYPE & CHANGE since July 2009. n/t

[Better Today]

16. unrec for link only OP

[Bluebear]

17. I'm crushed. I will unrec you for not knowing the quote, deal?

[jody]

18. No sweat, I canceled out the unrec with a rec.

:hi:

[Bluebear]

21. May stars fall on you!

:)

[flyarm]

57. me too!! a big Rec from me!! eom

[slipslidingaway]

29. I know there were words in the OP! n/t

[bobbolink]

59. Thank you for reminding me to click on rec!

Much appreciated!

:evilgrin:

[gateley]

19. We have to let that go. It ain't gonna happen. Unless it does. We'll see. nt

[DiverDave]

20. Recomended

to counter your unrec.
Yeah, it's a bit lazy not to cut and paste some words, but the info is there, just click the link.
It's more important that it's brought to our attention then not.
Is this what is happening to other posts that are just fine, yet have 0< on them?

[Bluebear]

22. A lot of

Obama asked us to hold his feet to the fire. Congress? Meh, bought and paid for.

[Bluebear]

39. meant to say a lot of unrecs are because they don't want Obama or Congress to "look bad"

[eShirl]

24. "read my lips" n/t

[gkhouston]

25. Right now, sounds like he'll be siging a lot of bull before he signs any such bill. n/t

[slipslidingaway]

28. October 2008 ...

"And we are tired of watching as year after year, candidates offer up detailed health care plans with great fanfare and promise only to see them crushed under the weight of Washington politics and drug and insurance lobbying once the campaign is over.

That is not who we are, that is not who we have to be, enough is enough, it time for us to change."


Oh well, then there was Billy and Karen.

:(

[Marr]

32. Yep, and all the while they were maneuvering behind the scenes to kill it.

When the "chess player" ended up having to put his cards on the table, thanks to a Senate seat lost to his corporate dicking around, his hand was somehow absent one Public Option.

So very surprising.

[xchrom]

33. Recommend

[QC]

34. What ever happened to that guy? n/t

[Barack_America]

35. Maybe we can put his pic on a milk carton as "MISSING"...

Who knows, maybe he'll turn up.

[QC]

41. I wish he would come back. He was pretty cool in many ways.

This other guy, though....

[freddie mertz]

50. Maybe there was a switch with an alternative-dimension doppelganger.

Like on Star Trek.

[QC]

54. Or maybe he's just a bullshit artist. n/t

[leveymg]

36. That was President Obama speaking. Not the man in the WH, today.

[leftstreet]

37. K&R

[jtuck004]

38. Let me think about it....OK, well, maybe I could forget it...until

November 6, 2012.

On second thought, no.

[Agony]

40. "any plan I sign must include...a public option to increase competition..."

"and keep insurance companies honest "

[dem mba]

42. misty water-colored memmmmoriesss

of the way we were...


sniff.

[freddie mertz]

44. I wish that guy had been elected president.

What ever happened to him anyway?

I don't like this new fellow anywhere as much.

[thotzRthingz]

45. k&r (n/t)

[Echo In Light]

47. K&R

[suede1]

48. It would be nice if everyone went to the WH website and reminded him of he promised.

[Bluebear]

52. We have,

We've been ignored.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

49. And here is candidate Obama promoting single payer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpAyan1fXCE

[progressoid]

53. Doesn't matter how many times this is posted.

P.O. is not gonna happen.

He's gonna sign whatever bill comes across his desk at this point.

[kenny blankenship]

55. ...and by that I mean a plan that is entirely directed to the profits of private businesses

and is not optional whatsoever.

[Agony]

56. " No longer will you be without health insurance, even if you lose your job or change jobs"

Obama also said that in the same speech.

[flyarm]

58. What he neglected to say was, he was going to destroy the good policies people had and tax them

assuring that those who have good insurance will be offered shit on a shingle in return..while assuring the health industry CEO's the biggest bail out ever!!

Equal opportunity..now everyone can have equally shitty insurance coverage!! No matter how many concessions you took for entire working lives!! In leiu of pay you took good health insurance..now go fuck yourselves..the joke is on you!!