If you think that the Congress in 2009/2010 would have passed Single Payer legislation

[cui bono]

74. I apologize. I didn't see that specific question and I really didn't understand what you were

trying to say in your last post.

He should have educated the public. He should have had meetings (not secret) with single-payer advocates. He should have pushed publicly for medicare for all. All Dems should have done that. Then we might have had a public option as a compromise.

I'll tell you what he should not have done. Have secret meetings with insurance companies that he continually denied until he had to admit it. Talk about losing the public's trust as well as not negotiating on our behalf. Emanuel also told the left to STFU. That doesn't sound like they even wanted a public option, even though Obama claimed that he did.

You can roll your eyes about your senator remark but that's exactly what I'm talking about. They're just counting existing votes rather than trying to change them. That's a huge problem with the Dem Party in general. Settling for what they've decided is all they can get rather than trying and asking for more so they get more than the usually do. Get the people fired up so that they'll bombard their reps with phone calls and emails and force them to support it.

Obama and the Dems should unleash the true left if they really want to get something that is for the people accomplished. Here's a New Rules for you that is of course taking it to the extreme but that's exactly what should happen, but with real goals of course.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Nothing was ventured.