“Insurance scam artistry is the enemy of the American people”

“Health care corporate lobbyists are the enemy of real health care reform”

“Recission is the enemy of health care”

“Profit is the enemy of reform”

Lots of enemies.

Well, you know… if 76% of the people are wrong, it’s up to good people like him to keep them from harming themselves.

Let’s not make the perfect the enemy of the good” is one of Dianne Feinstein’s FAVORITE phrases.

I rest my case.

I loathe that woman’s political behavior.

He’s perfectly wrong.

Actually, Cohen is a good dude. Perhaps he was being too honest. He is a first term congressmnn still finding his way. He comes from one of the poorest urban districts in the country and certainly is in tune with the needs of the poor and working class.

Jane, that title made me laugh and snort. *Whew*

He’s in his second term now.

What a crock of rotten fish. I know that district personally.. Denying that particular district health care is as harmful to a large percentage of his constituents as any other district in this country I can think of.

History will find that this Congress is one of the most corrupt ever….just “show me the money”.

Ditto Larue. She in nothing but a Corporatist Shill in a dress. I sure wish we could recall her.
We must have Single Payer and completely put the so called Health Insurance Companies out of business. They only good the do is to line their coffers with the people’s money and provide the least possible of coverage for the money.

Obama should be out every single day making the case for a strong public option. He has the power to make is untenable for Democratic Senators to buck a strong public option. As it stands now, he has handed this off to the Senate giving the Senators the freedom to act as free agents. This is beyond disappointing and not what he vowed to those that worked their tails off to get him elected to do. We need to not only hammer our Senators, but to let the White House know that we demand a lot more from the President. Does he want us on board next time or sitting at home having lost faith in the system? He has embraced and upheld many of Bush’s deceptive and secretive practices and now this. Too many of us, health care trumps everything. It is beyond time for him to take the reigns and give the American people a STRONG AND AFFORDABLE PUBLIC OPTION.

“It’s hard to make a promise, because you never know what might come up….”

And, yet, it wasn’t hard for many of us, from all across the country, to run to your aid, Steve Cohen, when you were ruthlessly attacked by the EMILY’s fund candidate who thought it was wrong for an African-American district to be represented by a Jew. We had your back, then, sir, with money, blog attention, and promises of support. And you won that primary, didn’t you, and went on to win your second term in Congress, right?

So, now, when we come to you and ask you to promise to keep your word, what exactly is hard about that? What could possible come up between now and the vote that might make you change your mind? Could it possibly be the same kind of pressure that enabled you to greatly disappoint us with your last Supplemental Vote?

Why would you let that happen, Congressman Cohen, when we worked so hard for you? And why would you ever expect us to work that hard to defend you again, if you are unable to make and keep a promise about something you claim to believe in so mightily as universal health care for all Americans?

Why?

Some of us were saying this about Democrats in 2000. That’s why we voted for Nader. Democratic-leaning progressives told us that we shouldn’t have let the perfect be the enemy of the good, and then blamed us for the Bush era.

I’m glad to see those progressives finally rejecting their own fallacy.

Also: Do not call people ‘cracker.’ You lose all credibility.

Cracker.

with the Democrats, both ‘perfect’ and ‘good’ are off the table to start with.

Their starting point is ‘least worst’ but after some corporate bribes and collusion with the (R)’s they often can make it much worse.

Incrementalism only works if you’re incrementing toward the perfect.

I haven’t figured out why some people and institutions are utterly incapable of realizing that compromise isn’t always an effective solution at all; let alone a good one. Putting out only half a house fire isn’t going to keep it from burning to the ground, so what’s the point of meeting the blaze halfway?