In Case You Missed This... Confirmation On What Many Of Us Believed Re: The Publc Option Fight

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45. Of course FDR had 377 House seats and 73 Senate seats. Obama goes for wins he knows

may even stand a chance instead of fighting battles that are lost causes. This way when election season rolls around he can point to the numerous legislative victories he's accomplished in order to counter all of the BS from the RW about him "not doing anything". If he was handed a public option bill and our voices spoke up and demanded I can definitely see him signing it. Incremental change and progress IS progress nonetheless and with an actual bill to be able to attach a future public option to it makes it that much easier, Obama has laid the groundwork for a public option to even become a reality one day.

Which means, the existing bill can be improved upon. FDRs Social Security bill had built-in exclusions that exempted nearly half of the working population from benefits, namely two-thirds of African Americans and about half of women. Furthermore, FDR’s New Deal employment programs discriminated against blacks and he was too scared of political backlash to support either an anti-lynching bill or a bill to abolish the poll tax, despite urging from First Lady Eleanor. So in terms of Civil Rights, Obama beats FDR in a landslide.

Edit: That bill too was obviously improved upon as well.