1000th post--my letter to Obama:

[lib_wit_it]

Dear Mr. President,

We elected you with that faith that you would follow through on your promises, but in LGBT issues, you insulted and failed us (I am straight, btw.) In transparency and ending Bush policies which subverted the constitution, again, you have insulted and failed those of us who believed you when you claimed to agree with our vision of the US as a nation of laws, and that no one is above those laws.

Trillions of dollars were given, with virtually no strings attached, to the same unfathomably wealthy fat-cats who wrecked Main Street via Wall Street greed and irresponsibility, yet union members' contracts were trashed and those men and women were forced to compromise and sacrifice yet again.

Now, rather than start high and bargain down reluctantly, you have given away our chance to achieve real health reform in this country for the sake of appeasing the obstructionist Republican party?. No bargaining on drug prices? Eighty lousy million dollars in promises from the Health Scare Industry to perhaps exercise some restraint in jacking up future costs?

You should have used you political capital to sell the Medicare for all concept with clear, consistent, unrelenting speeches all across the country. Town Hall bullies should have been. made to act respectfully or have been ejected. And this tiny minority's opinion should not have had the disproportionate influence it has had on the proposals under consideration.

We elected you. We Democrats are in;what may be the best bargaining position we'll have in years, and yet we are seeing little happen to get this country back on track, as you had promised us. And now you want to bail on the public option and support a bill that could give the insurance companies even more money and power, rather than one which would provide what you know to be what we need--single payer, or, in the very least offer a robust, immediately (ASAP) available public option.

Invoke the right wing's beloved hero, Reagan, and move toward the tax rates of his time for the very few at the top. Work it out so that only those making over two million see any increase, Let those who have benefited extravagantly from the opportunities made possible by this society--which each of us has a part in--contribute financial resources significant enough pay for instituting universal, single payer health care for Americans. Expand Medicare, create new programs--whatever. Just recognize and meet the challenge of broadly recognized moral imperative.

You claim to know that many of us out here struggling in many cases fighting for our very lives, yet you apparently don't actually care. You are in a position to usher in the sort of progressive tidal wave not seen since FDR's New Deal. Don't allow corporate influence or that of right wind extremists to derail you from your destiny. It's not too late. Do the right thing.
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I have edited and proofread it repeatedly, and I can't stand to think about it any longer, and so will submit it as is to the whitehouse.gov contact page. I know many DUers disagree with my criticism of the president. So be it.



edited to correct 100th to 1000th post--d'oh!

[Old Codger]

1. That is it

He sold what political capitol he had waaaay too cheap, it has been whittled away slowly over the last month or so by wheedling crying RW idiots and the dems just sat back with heads up their collective asses and let it happen with barely a whimper.

Ia am not from Texas but I have heard a saying that supposedly comes from there "all hat and no cattle" pretty much fits a goodly portion of our congresscritters.

[lib_wit_it]

2. At this point, I'd be happy with some more "hat" from the Dems. As usual, they seem to be employing

"ignore them and they'll go away" tactic too often. It doesn't work with RW lies. They need to be refuted vociferously, repeatedly, and unanimously by all Dems.

With more hat, we could maybe get away with the apparent shortage of cattle.