Dean: ‘What’s the point of having a 60 vote majority’ if you can’t pass health reform.

[kpete]

Run time: 03:38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n8WtNT1lgo   Posted on YouTube: July 28, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: July 28, 2009 By DU Member: kpete Views on DU: 849

 
You know, this is going to be a hell of an issue in 2010 cause honestly, what’s the point of having a 60 vote majority in the United States Senate, if you can’t produce…health care reform.You can get health insurance reform. This bill is going to cost us a lot of money and it isn’t going to do anything, if this so-called compromise is true. This compromise does nothing, except it will reform insurance. That’s a good thing to do, but they ought to strip the money out of it cause we reformed insurance like this in Vermont 15 years ago. It’s a fine thing to do, but it doesn’t insure more people.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/28/dean-60-vote-majority/

[Democrats_win]

1. Dear Americans: All your congress votes are belong to us. Sincerely, Fascist Corporate America

Dear Americans,

All your congress votes are belong to us.

Sincerely,

Fascist Corporate America

[kenny blankenship]

2. It shows our form of government has hit the wall and has descended into its terminal phase

in which it is, at one and the same time, tyrannical yet impotent.
It cannot stop doing things that it should not do, eg: war, torture, spying, rewarding trillion dollar fraudsters. And it cannot bring itself to do things that it should do, that it is supposed to do, and that any sane person can see that it is in the national interest to do --not to mention in the interest of a govt concerned with maintaining the appearance of its own legitimacy.

[MisterP]

3. logic? that's treason talk! the military-industrial complex would not have painted this man as a

crazy OBL lover if it werent true!!!111
:sarcasm:

[Sebastian Doyle]

4. Dr. Dean, speaking the truth as always.

Just think where this country could be right now if he had been elected President in November 2004.

Fuck the DLC. :grr:

[wisteria]

5. Good point! n/t

[tomm2thumbs]

6. 'it's not health care reform and nobody should pretend that it is...'

I am assuming 'nobody should pretend' goes to the top. Hopefully he's listening.

My scenario is. Play along with the Blue Dogs on this idea they have. Get their votes. Then fix it in committee and screw 'em on any promises that were made to them. They are not Democrats if they cannot stick together on the ONE issue that has been dogging this country for decades.

[Deep13]

7. What's the point of supporting the Democratic Party if...

...they won't act even with a 60-vote majority?

Seems like a bad investment to me

[grahamhgreen]

8. I blame Obama for not pushing Single Payer. He needs to. He is acting stupidly.

[madfloridian]

9. Full transcript up at Daily Kos.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/28/758865/-Dean-on-the-Baucus-Plan

[democracy1st]

12. thanks mad

[donheld]

10. k & R

[democracy1st]

11. kick