What Part of NOW do the Dems Not Understand? 
Two weeks ago at the health care summit, President Obama had one of his finest, if not "the" finest moment, of his presidency. He stood up for the people in this country who want health care reform (and contrary to what the Republicans keep saying, that’s the "majority" of Americans), and he stood firm. He gave us the transparency he promised on the campaign trail. He let the Republicans have their say. And when it was all over, there was no question as to the goal of the hypocrite, obstructionists on the right side of the aisle, to do anything and everything in their power to stop, kill and obliterate health care reform, the American people be damned.
Two weeks later, there has been some progress, but although Obama has set March 18 as the day by which he wants a vote, Speaker of the House Pelosi has said only that it is "an interesting date." Harry Reid stated that no "arbitrary deadlines" would be set.
What part of "NOW" do they not understand?
It’s time for President Obama to press the issue, rather than defer to his own spineless party, or attempt to reach out to the Republicans yet again, as he did only a few days after the summit.
It’s time Obama stopped helping "them," for whatever reason, and started doing in earnest what needs to be done for the people who elected him, the people on Main Street who need his support and help now more than ever. It’s time for Obama to acknowledge that a war is being waged by the Republicans on the middle class, and has been since the day the deity of the GOP, Ronald Reagan, wrested the presidency away from a vulnerable Jimmy Carter; a war taken to end-game status during the despotic regime of Dick Cheney and his puppet king, George W. Bush.
It’s time for the carnage and suffering to stop. It’s time Obama recognized the urgency with which a health care bill must be passed, even the watered down version currently being debated in congress.
Obama and the Dems have compromised and procrastinated enough. "Single payer" was never even brought to the table; extending the parameters of Medicare quickly went away; and now, the public option seems to have gone the way of the wild goose. At least for now. Which in and of itself points up the seemingly inherent weakness of Pelosi, Reid and Co., while demonstrating the strength and power of Big Pharma and the insurance companies, and the hold they have on every member of the GOP, all of whom dance on the end of their strings to whatever tune their corporate masters play.
I submit that Howdy Doody had more brains and freedom than anyone in the Republican Party.
The question is, when are the empty-headed GOP voters, who apparently unconsciously support a fascist takeover of the government, going to wake up and realize how dangerous the path upon which the Boehners, Bachmanns, McConnels and McCains have put them actually is?
When are the Tea Baggers and disciples of Sarah, Glenn and Rush going to understand that they’re slitting their own throats, not to mention those of their own children and grandchildren?
And finally, when are they going to learn that the George W. Bush and Dick Cheneys of the world are NOT going to "put money" in "their" pockets (as those aspiring to wealth believe) unless they already belong to the top 1% of Americans? Or that their "pro-life" rhetoric is nothing more than just that: Rhetoric.
Clearly, there is a moral imperative here to which President Obama must adhere. Because this abomination of corporations deciding who lives and who dies has gone on too long; that there are more than thirty million Americans without health care and as close as a pink slip away from total ruination, directly due to neocon corruption here, in the greatest country in the world, is an atrocity that has gone on too long; the iniquity of someone being denied health insurance and care because of a preexisting condition has gone on too long.
And that is why, if President Obama is ever going to truly stand up, once and for all, for health care reform, the time is now. Today. Not tomorrow. Not next week or next month or next year.
Speaker Pelosi, are you listening?
Now.
Harry Reid?
Now.
Watered down as it is, bad as it is, pass the bill. For the sake of those thirty million and all of those with a preexisting condition, pass the bill. That’s more than thirty million reasons right there to get it done and get it on President Obama’s desk, ASAP.
Now.
Lest America be damned.
KEYWORDS: Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Ronald Reagan, health care
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What Part of NOW do the Dems Not Understand?
