Why aren’t they pounding the dems everyday, calling them on their bullshit lies and deception hard fast and often? Why?

Because they are them, and we are us.

Which is probably why he has done it. He couldn’t stand the thought that maybe, just maybe, this country, with all its warts and problems, is still better than anything conceived before, and certainly better than he will leave it.

And BTW, when will someone start challenging the liar donks on their “affordable health care” meme? Costing more is “affordable?” If that’s the case, I should have been charging a lot more for the products my company had, just to make them “affordable”.

“If elected, I swear to God above that I WILL NOT govern like a democrat…(like republicans have done for the last ten years)”.

When a private citizen gives favors to a Senator in exchange for his vote, it’s called “bribery.” When a President or a Senate Majority Leader does it, it’s called “artful politics”, “compromise” or “logrolling.”

Political Economics has shown us many years ago that logrolling can lead to a slate of proposals being passed, each portion of which would fail under majority vote. The deals offered to Landrieu, Nelson, and Sanders is not only nefarious, it’s likely a violation of Equal Protection. But when Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution is considered merely a trifle, what other part of the Constitution bears any relevance?

Obama has broken every promise he made with this bill to liberals, conservatives, and the nation: no public option, funding for abortion, not deficit neutral, Medicare cuts, mandates and fines, higher insurance premiums, no universal coverage, etc. etc. ad nauseum. Please assure me so that I may sleep well on Christmas Eve that the electorate will remember all these broken promises next November? If you’re not sure, lie to me please.

Frankly, if Obama had passed a single-payer system it would be less devastating than this scrapbook of political backroom deals and dusty old proposals. We will bear all of the costs of higher premiums, rationed care, insolvent Medicare, disappearance of private insurance, lack of transparency, lack of privacy, higher taxes, higher deficits and get NONE of the benefits of universal health care. It’s the worst of all possible outcomes. It could not destroy our health care system better if it were intended to do so.