The HCR uproar and a forgotten primary warning about reaching out to the Ins. Companies

[saracat]

Remember "not seating the insurance companies and the pharmaceutical companies at the table because they would eat ALL the food". Guess what? That turned out to be prescient. They are trying to "eat all the food" and so are the GOP. And it is beginning to look like we are too "polite" to stop them.

[rurallib]

1. I heard John Edwards say many times

"Those in power will not give it up willingly. Power will have to be taken from them."
And that is why i supported Edwards over Obama.

[SammyWinstonJack]

2. Me too.

And that is why I supported Edwards over Obama. :thumbsup:

[saracat]

3. I had forgotten that. Another precient remark

[jeffbr]

5. Amen. That's how FDR did it.

You don't compromise with Wall Street or the pharma/insurance terrorists.

[progressoid]

7. +1

[redqueen]

8. "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."

Frederick Douglass

[laughingliberal]

9. I was an Edwards supporter both in 2004 and 2008

I really did feel he would stand up for the little people. We'll never know. Sad to see him come to ruin this past year.

[cornermouse]

4. kick sadly.

[waiting for hope]

6. Here's another that will fit in quite nicely:

There's a wall around Washington and we need to take it down. The American people are on the outside. And on the other side, on the inside, are the powerful, the well-connected and the very wealthy. That wall didn't build itself or appear overnight. For decades, politicians without convictions and powerful interests gathered their bricks and their stones and their mortar, and they went to work. They went to work to protect their interests, to block the voice of the American people, and to stop our country's progress. They went to work to protect, defend, and maintain the status quo.

"That wall around Washington, it protects a system that's rigged and guess who struggles as a result? Every single day, working men and women see that wall when they have to split their bills into two piles pay-now and pay-later; when they watch the factory door shut for the last time; when they see the disappointment on their son or daughter's face when there's no money to pay for college. Every single day they see that wall when they have to use the emergency room as a doctor's office for their son because they can't afford to pay for health care. This is not okay. That wall has to come down.

How big is that wall now that the insurance companies have an inside track into the White House?

[scarletwoman]

10. k&r (nt)

[Horse with no Name]

11. Nice to see you Saracat

:hug:
They will eat all the food and the rest of us will starve.

[saracat]

12. Good to see you too Horse. I hope you are doing well!