I was just thinking: It took a woman and a man of color to finally pass HCR in America

[MrScorpio]

And a bunch of pasty, old white guys couldn't stop them.



Change is more than a slogan.

[stray cat]

1. With help behind the scenes from the Clintons it appears

[DemoTex]

25. That credit must be given ..

The operative anagram from HCR (Health Care Reform) is, as it damn well should be, HRC (Hillary Rodham Clinton).

[joe black]

2. It's not health care.

It's insurance reform.

[madrchsod]

3. true but just think if we got medicare /public option....

they would be blowing up stuff and shooting the democrats...





oh wait a minute they are already doing that...

[merh]

7. it isn't even insurance reform

the insurance corps are still exempt from the anti-trust laws and will still conspire to screw the citizens every chance they get.

[salguine]

17. It's barely even that!

[WCGreen]

4. True Dat...

A lilly white boy who is embracing the Black Lifestyle...

LOL!!!!

Don't you hate it when yuppies say shit like that...

He, Snoppy Trevor, pull up your pants...

[Berry Cool]

5. Finally, something in Washington got changed

other than David Vitter's diaper.

[Edweird]

6. They passed the pasty old white guy's plan for them.

[Oregone]

8. Yeah, screw that pasty, old white Kennedy guy for stopping it in the 70s when it was Nixon's reform

[inna]

9. Hardly Health Care.

More like, Insurance Care.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

10. Lots of change going right into ins co's pockets.

[The Traveler]

11. As a pale assed Irishman

I have to say I concur with your observation. Things happen at the right time in history ... when the right human seizes the right moment and does the deed. In this particular case, the right humans were a bi-racial male and a white female.

And I for one am proud of 'em. People like that make ya proud to be part of the human race. Our species ain't all crap ... not by any means. We have climbed and clawed and scraped our way up out of savagery ... and while the savage is never far from us we have nonetheless come so far. Shall we not continue this journey initiated by our ancestors, Mr Scorpio? Perhaps you could spin us a tune or three to ease our way ...


Trav

[UTUSN]

12. "a woman & a man of color" thus fulfilling this other woman's efforts:

By Pete Souza, The White House
President Obama gets a hug from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton a day after the House passed the health care bill

[Catherine Vincent]

29. I love that picture!

:)

[Joe the Revelator]

13. What's wrong with being pasty or white?

[Skip Intro]

18. I've been asking that myself for a while

I guess racism is cool if you're racist against whites?

[Joe the Revelator]

19. Yeah, I think its a pretty lame double standard among progressives

[cherokeeprogressive]

30. White people suck. I thought everyone knew that.

Name one problem they're not responsible for.

[Skittles]

14. just remember that with each passing year there was more support for reform

just saying

[Cleita]

15. I always thought Congress should be divided equally by gender and

proportionately by ethnicity, and that way everyone would have representation.

[salguine]

16. Will you people stop saying we got "health care"? We got nothing of the kind. We got

some tinkering around the edges of insurance. Insurance is NOT ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE!

How thick do you have to be before you don't grasp this!? Am I insane, here?

[kath]

34. +100

Thanks - these people are seeing pink unicorns. Or way, way fucking stupid.
Or something...

[LAGC]

20. Change for the worse, you mean.

I wouldn't call an entrenched corporate monopoly on health care access progress is any sense of the word.

[DemoTex]

21. Why isn't this recced? Mine was #1.

K&R

:kick:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

22. I just gave it #5!

:hi: my dear DemoTex!

[FrenchieCat]

23. Because folks are bitter,

and are on automatic pilot when it comes to the favorite thing to do
in discussing politics; whine a lot about everything and anything,
cause the world just suck, and it always will. :sarcasm:

[scheming daemons]

24. Hmm... credit for woman (Pelosi) and black man (Obama)... but none for Reid?

I guess since he's a "pasty, white guy" his contribution doesn't count.

[DemoTex]

26. Here ya go .. for Senator Reid:

[bleever]

27. Hey!

:fistbump:

:toast:

Great observation, sir.


ed: Please note that the House GOP leader is not white, but some orangey tobaccoey shade of despondency.

[Catherine Vincent]

28. You really shouldn't have called them pasty

That's not nice.

[Codeine]

31. It took a Democratic majority, actually,

composed mostly of those pasty white men you denigrate.

I'm a pasty white dude. I'm pretty fucking awesome.

[MellowDem]

32. It took everyone we had to pass health care...

many old, pasty white guys included.

Change is more than color and your post smells of bigotry.

[DoBotherMe]

33. I agree Mr Scorpio!

The other side is filled with "pastey white" bigots our side is colorful and kind. Dana ; )