re: #807 iceweasel

Jim DeMint. Picked up now by Newt Gingrich too.

The people who voted for Obama did so overwhelmingly because of the promise of health care reform. This really is make-or-break for Obama. The GOP has to do whatever they can to stop it.

Also, the GOP is being helped out by numerous Blue Dogs.

Personally, I’m sceptical that any health care reform will pass. If it does I think it’s likely to be a completely bastardised version. Also, I think in general the Washington establishment— and I mean Democrats as well as Republicans— are interested in serving the needs of the economic elite. The health care industries don’t want this to go through, and they have a lot of friends on both sides. (Jim DeMint received almost 3 million dollars in contributions from health care lobbyists since 2004).

So I don’t expect anything to pass— or if something does limp through, I think it’s likely to suck.

Vis a vis the emboldened text, I would go further and say that they need to present a strong alternative to the package. If somehow an alternative reform package went in through the R’s and Blue Dogs and actually got passed and signed, that would be a win too.