President Obama spent last weekend making signals about a move away from a public option in health care reform and toward something he called “health insurance reform.” The predictable outcry from his supporters caused the White House to try to rephrase the changes. He is still not spelling out exactly what he wants to see in the bill that the Senate has still not written, but in seeking a compromise to get health care through the Senate, the President Obama risks alienating his progressive base.
Paul Krugman, in an op-ed piece in the New York Times argues that after the bank bailout debacle, the waffling on torture and indefinite detention, and other disappointing moves by the president, progressives are “feeling punked.” Read the entire article here
Montanans are in a really great position to teach this country that we will no longer tolerate unacceptable garbage being shoved down our throats. Case in point the unillustrious senior senator misfit baucus, let it be made crystal clear that he no longer represents this great state, he is a sleazy politician and has to stay in Washington - take a play out of the coupsters in Honduras play book, every time this soldout champion of sleaze tries to land in Montana he should be met at the airport by as large a crowd as possible and his effigy should be tarred and feathered and he should be told to turn around and go back to Washington he is no longer welcome in Montana as an elected official, because he has abandoned the populace. This type of protest could get great press and it might even catch on in other states