Because he was totally naive by thinking he could help craft a bipartisan health care bill with a party (the Republicans) who had no interest in the matter except to see him fail, President Obama is now desperate to pass anything, even if it is a mutation which should go by the name of "The Healthcare Industry Bill." The insurance companies wrote the bill, paid off the right senators and congressmen and are now dancing in the streets. The people's interests have once again been sold down the river by those who we elected to represent us. The conspiracy, and, of course, that's what it is, has triumphed over all of us as it always does.
Whether the industry's bill passes now or not makes absolutely no difference. Their healthcare dictatorship is ongoing while the President's reputation rightly plummets along with that of the Democratic party.
Someone must have read Obama the "riot act" after he got elected. There's no other way to explain the profound contrast between the inspirational rhetoric of his presidential campaign and the dismal, right-leaning action of his presidency. The choice of his Cabinet should have been a red flag. But no one, no matter how cynical, could have foreseen his stunning lack of leadership on the vital healthcare issue for which he was elected. And we certainly didn't vote him into office to bail out bankers and automobile and insurance companies. That was not the change he promised.
It has become apparent that the two-party system in this country has failed. We, the American people, have become marginalized to the point of irrelevancy. We have become the victims of a government of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations. Short of outright revolution, the only glimmer of hope is in the formation of an independent third party whose only mission will be to fight for everyone of us. Until that day comes, I, for one, will not walk into another voting booth in order to vote for a Democrat or a
Republican. They have no interest in us, and I will return the favor. This is some democracy we're living in. What a disappointment.
12/19/2009
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