Mistakes were made - by Tom Tomorrow

[kpete]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/11/1254373/-Mistakes-were-made

[adirondacker]

1. This toon IS so Spot On and Hilarious! (Not that healthcare isn't a serious matter) nt

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. Uh uh.....Tom is a bad boy

but I like it anyway because it still made me smile
with the floppy disk joke....plus the Heritage reference.

[Nye Bevan]

4. It was funny but the Onion did it first....

http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-improved-obamacare-program-released-on-35-flop,34294/

[JDPriestly]

7. Did I ever tell you the one about why I eventually installed Windows 7 on my computer?

It's quite a story, but probably too long and depressing to tell here.

[Ichingcarpenter]

10. Did I ever tell you the one about Roswell?

That the intelligence officer for the only nuclear bombing group in the entire world didn't know what a weather balloon was and never lost his job or career for that mistake?

It was because he was using windows 7

[JDPriestly]

17. I believe you, but the program I had before Windows 7 was much worse.

Computers have to be tinkered with. Things don't always function from the get-go or easily.

[mazzarro]

3. When will Dem leadership learn not to cuddle RW ideas?

It is rather frustrating that Dem leadership keep making same mistake and taking it to the teeth whenever they play their game of bi-partisanship or centrism in cuddling to reThuglican howls and cries. reThugs never show gratitude for any concession given them, rather they come back doubly emboldened to exact more vengeance on Dems and their aim is squarely on the most vulnerable sections of the Democratic party - i.e. the politically powerless, poor and needy.

If this whole healthcare thing has been made into single payer right from the beginning, I do believe by now the reThugs would be begging for the Romney-Massachusetts style healthcare law.

[LWolf]

5. When the Dem leadership

is not made up of Reagan "Democrats."

[sulphurdunn]

8. It's not a mistake.

They do it on purpose. The best ground gainer in the Dem playbook is "fake left, go right." It's been pretty much like that since Reagan Democrats took over the party with corporate cash in the 80s.

[BlueEye]

9. Well, Obama is the "Pragmatic Progressive"

We know they wanted single-payer at the beginning, but their political calculus concluded that would never get past Congress. So they went for something that would get signed into law (barely), which in the President's mind is probably better than nothing.

Let's take back the House in 2014, that way pragmatism can give way to true progressivism once more.

[Fumesucker]

12. How many Republican votes did the PPACA get? n/t

Oh, and welcome to DU!

[tblue37]

15. They weren't really trying to wrangle Repub votes. They had to get the stupid

Blue Dog Dems and Lieberdweeb on board to pass anything at all!

[BlueEye]

18. Good point, and thank you to tblue37 for responding for me.

I agree, it is sad our Democratic president had to consent to water down his signature legislative achievement in order to secure Democratic votes for it. But I contend the Affordable Care Act we have now is better than the nothing we had before.

And thank you for the welcome!!

[MisterP]

16. when we stop pretending that we have to defend RW ideas when they do adopt them

[NealK]

6. Managed to make me smile.

[dickthegrouch]

11. That last panel

Should have another comment after it:

Didn't even need a death panel, just a know-nothing in an off-shored call center to deny the coverage.

[bvar22]

13. Tom Tomorrow nails it once again.

Some will hate him for telling these truths:

A byzantine, market based system first championed by the Heritage Foundation
that Preserves the role of the Private Insurers.

[rhett o rick]

19. Tell me why the Democrats in Congress didnt insist on single payer?

Because the Republicans wouldnt like it?

Rhetorical questions.

[libdem4life]

21. All on the Big Insurance payroll, uh, I mean donations. EOS.

[Uncle Joe]

14. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[CFLDem]

20. Nailed it again!