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

[loyalsister]

148. Since you have all the answers

and, like every surrogate know exactly what "the American people want," I hope you are holding office serving as a consultant, or something. That condescending phrase telling me and my family friends\neighbors what I want is annoying whether it comes from the right or the left. The opinions of people you identified as worthless, do influence policy because they vote in numbers. A lot of people voted for W.

The numbers on the ground do not support the assertion that there was overwhelming vocal public support for a public option. People may have supported it but there was not a significant number who cared enough to speak out and get active. It is easy to blame the media or politicians, but the truth is the numbers of activists willing to skip work, and show up to yell and scream about a public option at town halls were not there. The koch bros. provided the organized framework for the tea party. No one took the initiative on our side. If the investment were as you say someone would have.

If you are or have been an executive office holder or had to negotiate for votes with people who hated your guts you might have credibility. As it stands, these outside evaluations of how this could have been handled better are simply amateur analyses conducted by people with a grudge.