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cleveramerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 04:14 AM
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I hate to say it but,We folded like an accordion on public option.
I had hoped for more fight,
more willingness from our leaders
to put themselves on the line.
Instead they fell into line
like good robots.

I so hope I am wrong
I am hoping for some.
some last minute slap in the face
to shake them out of their stupor


trying not to turn on them
Rage and Disgust are fighting
for control within me
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 04:22 AM
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1. We're farther along than we've ever been before in this issue and to give up
now is pointless.

Keep pushing.
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joshdawg Donating Member (335 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 04:47 AM
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2. The public option is not dead......
at least yet.
I'm with Dean. There is no health care reform without a public option. Obama said we would get it and I still believe we will.
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cleveramerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 04:48 AM
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3. where are you drawing your optimism from...?
I must drink from this spring.
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joshdawg Donating Member (335 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 04:53 AM
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4. Quite obviously not from the same place you draw your
pessimism. :^)
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elizm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 04:58 AM
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5. Obama didn't come this far just to give up...
If you think that, you weren't paying attention.
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joshdawg Donating Member (335 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 04:59 AM
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6. Yeah,
He's not "pulling a Palin."
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JTFrog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 05:19 AM
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7. Who is this "we" you speak of?
You got a Dick Armey in your pants?

:shrug:
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cleveramerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 05:21 AM
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9. we= democrats
did you follow the news yesterday?
what is there to be happy about?
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JTFrog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 05:23 AM
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11. Apparently you followed the spin.
Good on ya.

The corporate spin masters love you spreading their doom and gloom and the let's get physical solutions for them.
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cleveramerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 05:30 AM
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13. you think its all spin....
nothing unpleasant is real
and you use that excuse over and over
to excuse fumbles in OUR party.
I live in the real world
the good guys don't always win.

there are no corporate spin masters
there is only us.
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JTFrog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 05:39 AM
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17. "I live in the real world", "There are no corporate spin masters"
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 05:19 AM
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8. um, the Progressive Caucus in the House has said clearly and repeatedly
no public option, no bill. We'll see, but that ain't exactly folding.
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cleveramerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 05:22 AM
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10. The white house has given the blue dogs permission to rebel.
I don't see how they will ever get them back.
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CJCRANE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 05:24 AM
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12. Um...why are you still stuck in Sunday's doom and gloom mode?
Step away from your TV (or whatever it is that's getting you down).
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cleveramerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 05:34 AM
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16. Mondays smack down didn't come.
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Jim Sagle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 05:31 AM
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14. No, actually we DIDN'T. But thanks for playing.
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cleveramerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 05:33 AM
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15. Have you heard that from the white house?
of course not.

You just keep clicking your heels together and wishing.
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Jim Sagle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 05:49 AM
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18. I'm just about the LAST person you should address that way, genius.
Edited on Tue Aug-18-09 05:54 AM by Jim Sagle
I am QUITE skeptical of the O Man. But in case you hadn't noticed - and it appears you don't notice much - there are MYRIAD Dems all over America, including the House and Senate, who haven't given up at all.

All in all, you don't seem that clever, or even awake.
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