i've followed the race in Massachusetts, from both sides. What I can't understand is how an important state, a commonwealth so integral to the nation's inception, could let down the thirty million, I repeat THIRTY MILLION, Americans who need health care (you have yours, others do not have theirs), let down our chance to reduce the Federal Deficit, let down our chance to extend Medicare, let down our chance to regulate the big banks who by their bonus funds are thumbing their noses at America after it bailed them (and us) out from collapse, to vote for Scott Brown. Why? What did America do to you to deserve such a horrible consequence? Follow me after the break.
Scott Brown has a good face. I grant you that. Not good, but he photographs ok. He drives a truck. Good. That must matter a lot, but I can't think why at the moment.
But there are thirty million people who are going to be left one illness away from being bankrupt if healthcare reform does not pass for this nation. OK, Mass, you've got yours. You have health insurance. So do I. I am one of the nation's fortunate who have Medicare. But Medicare is going to run out in eight years likely because of your vote tomorrow. The national debt will not be something the President can control unless he can get control of healthcare costs. The rest of his agenda to regulate banks so that they can't bring the nation's economy to a collapse is at risk.
Why? Why do you want to inflict this much damage on this nation? If someone could explain to me in a satisfactory manner, I'd understand. But don't pull teabag on me. And don't pull racism on me. I am a white person perfectly willing to allow our nation to evolve into whatever color demographics dictate. Also don't talk Kennedy. He worked his rear-end off for ordinary people for over four decades, EVEN IF HE WAS A KENNEDY. He was not a perfect man. But he was a marvelous senator for the ordinary people of this country.
This President, Massachusetts, has had only one year. And in that year he has had enough genuinely Democratic votes to support him for only a few months of that time. Ted Kennedy was often too ill. Robert Byrd is very old, and was hospitalized. The senator from Minnesota, Franken was not able to be seated for a long time. Obama has blue dogs and Republicans that masquerade as Democrats while voting Republican. The President is fighting a block of Republicans who do nothing but sit on their fannies, collect big salaries, with plenty of health care we pay for, get massive support from the insurance industry and the
financial institutions--all the while voting "NO" and filibustering the slightest thing that is done. The President came into office with a financial system in a state of collapse, and he has been given only one year to make up the TERRIBLE ABUSES TO OUR FINANCIAL SYSTEM OF THE PREVIOUS EIGHT YEARS.
Why do you very good people not think of America's needs so that you would fail to vote for a bad campaigner who seems to be on the good side of democracy for a man who promises to vote along with the Republican Senate "Just Vote NO on everything" group?
We are a nation. We are not blue America or red America--at least at our best. We are the United States of America. But we need change for our survival, and you hold some of the keys to this next step towards either progress or a big, fat step backwards.