"Barack Obama put his presidency on the line for an accomplishment of historic proportions"

[impik]

NYT Editorial:


The process was wrenching, and tainted to the 11th hour by narrow political obstructionism, but the year-long struggle over health care reform came to an end on Sunday night with a triumph for countless Americans who have been victimized or neglected by their dysfunctional health care system. Barack Obama put his presidency on the line for an accomplishment of historic proportions...


....Just as Social Security grew from a modest start in 1935 to become a bedrock of the nation’s retirement system, this is a start on health care reform, not the end. A lot will depend on whether future presidents and Congresses stick to the savings and deficit targets set in this legislation; on how aggressively states administer the new exchanges; on how health care professionals and institutions respond to the challenge of changing their ways; and on how the public responds to the mandate that everyone obtain insurance or pay a penalty.

Our hope and belief is that this reform will in the end accomplish its great objectives. Right now, the good news for all Americans is that despite all the politics and the obstructionism, the process has finally begun.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/opinion/22mon5.html?pagewanted=2&hp

[Number23]

1. So full of pride right now. I am so proud of this President

[FrenchieCat]

2. We certainly are.

The man passed a bill that few on any side liked,
and they dogged him on everyside,
and yet he kept his eye on the prize,
and ended up with something that we can all live with,
and which will be phased in over time and can be improved on in the meantime,
even after implementation without turning the entire system
upside down. In otherwords, we'll witness the only kind of progress
that this country, these days, could accept without going out
of their minds, although they almost went batshit crazy trying to stop it....
many on both sides.

[opihimoimoi]

3. He said it best:::" Its the right thing to do for the People"

[Oregone]

4. Colorful hyperbole bound to bring cataclysmic destruction to America and baby Jesus

[saltpoint]

5. Recommended.

[quaker bill]

6. the error of small government is over

and elections do have consequences.

[Clio the Leo]

7. "On a warm summer evening, on a train bound for nowhere, I met up with a gambler..."

"... we were both too tired to sleep."

:)