I was just listening to Ed Schultz and heard him say that he had spoken to several key people on the Hill yesterday… He said not one single person has been able to explain why Obama wants to wait until 2013 to let Health Reform go into effect. Except one explanation that seemed to ring true: Republicans are hoping that if they get control back of the House and/or Senate, or White House, that they will reverse this bill in a heart beat.
This makes perfect sense.
Basically, Obama is a Clinton-Republican. Not a true Democrat – but a Lieberman Democrat. Someone in the White House who is basically trying their darndest to help the Right Wing get everything they’ve been wanting for the last 100 years.
Clinton basically handed the rightwing their wettest and wildest dreams with NAFTA legislation, de-regulation of the media industry by allowing giant corporations to take over them, and also by allowing the energy, banking and Wall Street boys to become as de-regulated as they were before the great depression.
Bush pushed for it and definitely made it all happen. But it was also Clinton who basically caved to Republicans in the House who were pushing for all of the massive de-regulation.
The left wasn’t pushing back hard enough, and basically fell back on their promises to protect and deliver on Campaign Finance Reform, Global Energy / Green Energy / Kyoto Protocol changes and reforms. Al Gore would’ve helped insure those changes went into place. But instead, as soon as Bush came into office, he dismantled every single progressive and green environmental legislation in place, rolling back more than 50-years of progress. Bush also pushed hard for voting de-regulation with the “Help America Vote Act” – which was basically the “Help Count Less Votes Act” – designed to make sure every single vote that was tallied on a faulty Diebold machine was protected – and any voter with dark skin was called into question, and given fewer working voting machines in their precinct, thus guaranteeing 8-12 hour waits in long lines.
I’m feeling extremely frustrated this morning…
