THIS is the bill that President Obama is staking his political career on?!

[Krashkopf]

First of all, as much as I HATE the health care "reform" bill, and hope that it is killed by House progressives, I cannot bring myself to root for a GOP victory in the upcoming special election to fill Ted Kennedy's seat.

On the other hand, by making the decision to come to MA to campaign for Coakley, President Obama HAS made that election a referendum on him, and on his disaster of a "reform" bill.

President Obama had SO MUCH political capital during his first months in office, that if he had kept his incredible campaign machine - and more importantly his CAMPAIGN ADVISORS - in place, and used that machine to strongly advocate for REAL health care reform, staking his career on a plan with a ROBUST PUBLIC OPTION, there would have been no "Blue Dog" democrat brave enough to oppose him.

Instead, that campaign organization was allowed to atrophy - ending up as little more than an e-mail collecting web site; and, he replaced his bold, agressive, progressive, campaign staff, with corporatist DLC advisors like Rahm Emanuel.

Obama is going to end up with EXACTLY the health care bill that he, Rahm, and the Health Insurance industry wanted. Its a piece of crap. And if President Obama goes down in flames next week, because the American people recognize the bill as piece of crap, and a give-away to the Health Insurance industry, then he will have nobody but himself, and Rahm Emanual, to blame.