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In reply to the discussion: Incredible: Single Payer way more popular than ObamaRomneyCare. [View all]bvar22
(39,909 posts)[font size=5]Obama's Army, Jan. 21, 2009[/font]
*Send THAT crowd to Connecticut to "convince" Old Joe.
OR
*Obama himself could have gone to Connecticut and called out Lieberman in public venues like he did to Kucinich
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*use White House pressure to threaten funding for projects in Connecticut , and make sure Connecticut understood WHY
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*call together the Blue Dogs in a meeting and shame & insult them like he did to the CBC a few months ago.
(The put on your marching boots and get with MY program session)
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*use White House pressure to ensure that assholes like Bacchus don't get to CHAIR the Senate committees on Health care.
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*any one of a hundred other ways that Presidents and leaders of the Democratic Party can get something done!
Instead, The White House and Democratic Party leadership was MIA during TeaBagger Summer.
You must be really new at this to NOT know how powerful the President really is,
especially when the Poll Numbers are heavily on his side.
Can you point out a single occasion where the Democratic party Leadership or the White House publicly called out the Blue Dogs for their treachery?
NO.
Instead, the White House put all its weight behind Blue Dog Blanche Lincoln in the Arkansas Democratic Primary 2010
in a failed attempt to rescue her Primary campaign against a Democrat who supported HCR.
Blanche Lincoln actually crowed about derailing Obamacare during that campaign,
and the White House had HER back the whole time.
They even sent Bill Clinton back to Arkansas to try to save her failing campaign.
...so, ONE thing Obama CAN do is
STOP HELPING the Blue Dogs,
unless, of course, they are actually helping your real agenda.
You are also factually wrong with THIS statement:
You said:
[font color=firebrick size=3]"I'm simply pointing out that you needed every blue dog"[/font]
And I'm simply pointing out that your statement is untrue.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the final bill passed under reconciliation?
There were other ways to get around the 60 vote excuse too.
Expanding Medicare eligibility to 55 could have been passed through reconciliation too,
and THAT would have paved the road to Medicare for ALL,
and NOT the puny proposed state run single payer systems that will be so small and diluted that even the best run won't be able to show much cost savings.
...but I do agree with you that the problem is NOT the Republican Party.
The real problem is INSIDE The Democratic Party,
and until we fix THAT problem,
we aren't going to see much "change".
The White House could have brought Lieberman to his knees anytime it wanted to.
Lieberman was simply playing out his assigned part in the Kabuki Theater,
for which he was well rewarded by the Centrist party leadership.
You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.
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