Democrats use Osama-Saddam bait & switch on health care

[yurbud]

I have often complained that the Democrats have failed to learn the right lessons from the GOP's superior mastery of propaganda and PR. In the health care reform debate, they have misapplied the GOP methods again, using bait and switch, with hope and platitudes about health care replacing the GOP fear of terrorist bogeymen.

The GOP used an Osama-Saddam bait and switch. They got everybody mad at Osama, associate him with Saddam, then dropped Osama out of the equation.

With health care reform, Democrats got everybody excited about a public option, associate it with mandated private insurance, then drop the public option, which will be kept in a freezer in a cave with Osama until needed again.

The big difference is people bought the Osaddama lie for long enough to get the war started, and people didn't see that Bush was serving corporate oil and other interests not our national security until it was too late. By contrast, no one seems to be fooled by substituting slavery to private insurance companies for the kind of public insurance system every other industrialized country has that is less costly and more effective than ours (except at lining the pockets of the already wealthy).

But the Democrats don't seem to care that they haven't fooled anyone and are going ahead with legislation written by and for the criminals who have killed and bankrupted so many Americans with their epic greed.

Good luck in that fall election, Democrats.

You'll need it.

[cliffordu]

1. HUH????

????

[zipplewrath]

2. He's saying it was bait and switch all along

Propose a public option to get the left all excited about passing the bill, then you drop the public option and try to maintain the excitement for passing the bill.

I'm dubious about the original intent of the strategy, but none the less he has a bunch of center left folks running around advocating the passage of 15 year of GOP ideas of Bob Dole and Howard Baker. Don't think he could have even gotten the democrats interested in even trying that if he had started there.

[yurbud]

3. thank you. I tried to figure out the difference with Romneycare, but didn't have a strong enough

microscope.