Look, if you’re foolish enough to still support this administration, consider this. The President has never presented a vision. He left it up to Congress to design. Anyone surprised that we’re getting a crap sausage? If the President had Real, Honest-to-God, Principles, he would be fighting for what he thinks is right, not what the Insurance Companies and Pharma tells him we can have. He would be looking out for us, not his re-election war chest.

Instead, imagine what could have happened if he had come out at the beginning of the term and said this is what we’re going to do. We are going to give Medicare to everyone. You choose your doctor and they choose your treatments. Premiums are a payroll deduction, just another tax and you don’t get a choice. That’s what universal means; everyone shares the cost.

If you pay taxes (or should pay taxes), you are covered because you will have paid for it. Of course, all children, unemployed, disabled, work at home moms will be covered without premiums or copay. (That means that everyone will be covered including undocumented workers who pay taxes and the children of undocumented workers who go to school with your kids.) Costs to individuals will be comparable to what other industrialized nations pay (like Britain, France and Canada.)

For all of the seniors out there, you should know that we are going to make Medicare into a full, comprehensive insurance plan. There will no longer be a “donut hole.” We will cover long term care, mental health, vision, hearing and dental. You will never again have to buy Gap (Crap) insurance again. And for all of the doctors and hospitals out there, we will establish a professional and independent compensation board to determine fair regional fees. The compensation board will be independent of the Congress and while it will work to control costs, it will make compensation to providers reasonable. We will no longer attempt to pay for Medicare by squeezing it out of providers.

OK, now that the seniors and the doctors were on board, how possible would it have been to get an astro-turf movement going? Any screaming at town halls would have been at anyone against the bill. People who walked the streets during the election would have gladly flooded the streets. The administration could have controlled the debate and the bill. It would have passed by now and he would have had all of the political capital to do whatever he wanted. But that’s not what happened, is it?

The reason it didn’t, is because he never had any intention of doing it that way.

His constituents are Insurance Companies and Big Pharma. We were screwed from the moment we elected him. I bought into it too, big time.

So maybe it wouldn’t have happened exactly that way but you get the general idea. He could have done it. Present a really good idea that benefits everyone except the corporations and come out swinging for the fences. Control the fight. For those of you that insist that it’s better that we accept crap from Congress, well that’s certainly what you’re going to get. Enjoy. Support an administration that’s not fighting for us? Bullshit. It’s either incompetence or evil intent. You decide.

You just told Congress that there are no consequence for not doing the people’s will, for not getting things right. You’re going to keep getting crap from them because you agreed to it … and you earned it. Dean doesn’t want crap when we don’t have to have it that way, and neither do I.

Oh and by the way, if you’re still going on about the “Dean Scream,” you have so totally bought into MSM’s crap. There wasn’t anything wrong with his actions or his yell. It was a simply a passionate attempt to fire up his troops after a loss. The media, however, took it out of context, ridiculed him because his voice went up and used it to “prove” to the American electorate the he was “out of control.” Go on and tell me the media didn’t have an agenda in how they presented it; just news or something more? I wasn’t supporting him at the time, but I barfed when I heard Couric talk about it with that snide, sarcastic voice of hers (Repub shill that she is.)

Media, corporate interests and big money shot Dean down because they were afraid that they wouldn’t be able to control him. He was too dangerous. Unfortunately, they didn’t feel the same way about our current president.

I would have preferred McCain than a loss of Speaker Pelosi. Other than the SCOTUS, there’s not much difference. Both are warmongers, for example.

Over time, the affordability exemption will rise from 8% such that it could be 11% by 2019. It’s an un-freaking-believable screwage of working families.

As an Iowan explained to me at the time, in the Iowa caucuses everyone there knows for whom you “vote” — because you go and stand publicly with others also supporting the same candidate. Iowa state employees attending the caucuses had received the message from on high: Kerry, not Dean.

I’ve always wondered what Kerry promised Vilsack.

Inevitably transcripts and video of tv interviews appeared out of thin air at the end of the Iowa campaign showing him dissing Iowa and he came in third place (which is what led to the ‘Dean Scream’). I don’t believe he has much common sense.

I think that president Obama is the most pragmatic true liberal since FDR. The Social Security plan that FDR signed paled in comparison to the bedrock program we have today.

I’m sticking with Obama through thick or thin…

Of course that also means that Obama wants to deliver it for them.