Uh... we should be thanking *Bernie Sanders and Ron Wyden* for single payer in America.

[MADem]

28. I'm talking about the decades of litigation that did not happen AFTER the law was passed.

Isn't that what you're crying about here, direly? You aren't crying about decades of litigation that already happened. Your crying is purely, dare I say, eagerly, anticipatory.

And it will be GROOVY, as you said, because....because...well, you'll have something to cry about IF it happens. IF!!! Obama BAD!!! IF a waiver that was in the law he signed is somehow not approved! And gee...how GROOVY is that?

Yeah, the guy that signed the law that ensured VT had a provision to go their own way is somehow responsible for not allowing single payer in VT....only, that's not accurate. He signed the law that paved the way for them to obtain single payer.

This sounds like a bald-faced, right wing argument to me. That might not have been your intent, but this is the kind of stuff that Limbaugh and Beck tout--any hook to dis the POTUS, even a silly absurd one--like he signed a law that was changed before he signed it to permit VT single payer. Sort of like the GOP voting down ObamaCare four dozen times, and then whining that the website wasn't working well enough to allow people to sign up fast enough.

Here we've got Obama signing a bill into law that allows VT to have single payer, and you and Manny are racing to blame him for signing the law that ALLOWS it, and not signing the first draft that did NOT allow it.

Very curious.

But hey, let's get back on track--anyone reading this thread can read what you wrote. Here--let's preserve your remarks for posterity:

Luminous Animal (19,671 posts)
4. Groovy. If Vermont is denied we can look forward to...

decades of litigation.

Look FORWARD to decades of litigation. That was your point--not past litigation about equality.