This is a rant pure and simple. We cannot lose our minds everyday between now and when healthcare reform is passed. That's probably still a month or so away. Over the weekend it was "The Administration supports Triggers" today it's "Healthcare is sunk because of Joe Lieberman". My question is wasn't all of this predictable?
We've known that good ol' Joe has been a republocrat for eons. We know in our gut that Ben Nelson, Senator Landrieu, Senator Hagen and Senator Bayh will side with the republicans in a filabuster. This thing has always been heading toward reconciliation either way because Sanders, Burris, Feingold, and Rockerfeller weren't going to vote for a trigger or in other words "no public option".
We also know that The establishment gives us a shiny new object to obsess over and take our focus away from the prize of getting true healthcare reform. They have been proven wrong with their mem "the public option is dead" Pudits and they are pissy about it. They have been nothing but wrong, wrong, and more wrong on just about EVERYTHING. The establishment Cable News, Network News, Print Media, Health Insurance Industry, Big Pharma, and Hospital Associations want to slow our momentum and get us nervous and distracted because they are nervous that real reform is actually going to pass.
Our job is to keep calling, keep e-mailing, keep marching, keep educating our friends and family to keep the pressure on our elected officials including President Obama if necessary. The establishment can get money from lobbyist but ultimately lobbyist can't vote. I think that 300K calls last week scared the devil out of the Dems. They know their futures are riding on a final good bill.
If I listen to all the garbage that is being thrown around day to day I would have given up and moved to Sweden by now. Let's not fall for the bait this time people and not be distracted from the work ahead.