Reply #22: You have GOT to be kidding... [View All]

"This comes from the same group who uses the “44,000 people die in the US because they don’t have access to health care argument”? How does that work exactly? We die till we don’t? It’s important, those uninsured dying people till the ideal is more important?

Moreover, I’m trying very hard here to figure out how, with 2010 midterm elections looming large, waiting means somehow snatching a bigger success from a failure. Can anyone familiar with history point to any time where a bill has made it this far, been pulled back by proponents, and lived as a stronger version of itself? I can’t. I couldn’t find one single time where that was the case.

No, we can’t afford to wait. There are too many people hanging by a thread right now."

...from http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=62152&mesg_id=62152

If you're willing to sacrifice 44,000 people a year to get a perfect bill, fine. Stand on your principles. But your principles, quite frankly, SUCK if that's the case.