Obama faces healthcare insurrection from left flank :: Howard Dean says he will not support Obama for reelection
Oath Keeper
an insurrection from some of President Barack Obama's liberal backers
who feel he has been too willing to compromise away their priorities
on a healthcare overhaul.
Barack Obama | Healthcare Reform
The frictions reflect the tortured state of negotiations over Obama's
top domestic legislative priority as the White House and Democratic
leadership in the U.S. Congress seek to piece together enough
supporters to approve a healthcare plan that Republicans oppose.
Leading the grousing from the left has been Howard Dean, a former
Democratic National Committee chairman who ran unsuccessfully for his
party's presidential nomination in 2004.
Dean, a medical doctor and former governor of Vermont, in recent days
has said a Senate healthcare bill that Obama supports and which is
lurching toward a possible vote in coming days should be killed.
Dean and others on the left argue that the Senate legislation does not
permit competition with medical insurance companies, would expand
private insurers' grip on healthcare and does not really amount to
reform.
Tim Crowley
Buahahahahahahahahahah.
hint: you lost. you will always loose.
Christopher Helms
Dean didn't say anything about supporting or not supporting Obama in
2012, although Barry IS going to have some fast talking to do come re-
election time. He's going to have a lot of broken and/or ignored
campaign promises to explain away. He's going to have to find a way to
get the left, who he has been continually spitting on since they
helped elect him, to get out and support him anyway. That's not going
to wash. The right hates him already, half because they've been
repeatedly told that he's a Marxist maoist nazi secret muslim
terrorist socialist communist who wants to take away everybody's guns
and put conservatives in FEMA camps. The other half hate him because
he's not white. Obama has managed to anger almost everybody without
pleasing anybody. That's quite a trick. Even Chimpy McFlightsuit was
able to keep America's fringe right whackjob community in his corner
most of the time.
Lamont Cranston
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His approval rating is still almost 50%, so he's pleasing a lot of
people. When the economy comes roaring back mid-2010, he'll be pleasing
many more.
fargo116
wrote:
> "Christopher Helms" <Chrishelms...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
Actually, I think it's pretty funny that Festus is pinning his hopes
on a bunch of LIBERALS.
S. Olson
Bob Eld
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There will be a real insurrection if the present Senate bill becomes law
because it is pure crap that fucks over the American people as a give the
Insurance Industry. It mandates that people have to purchase Health
Insurance or be fined and has NO mechanisms to contain costs nor does it
offer Alternatives to the fucking robber barons where they can charge what
they want. Yes, the Companies would have to offer insurance and couldn't
cancel or use preexisting conditions, but there is zero to keep them from
screwing you over with absurd premiums and costs .This is a give to
corporate greed at it's finest. However, given that, it's funny that
republicans would oppose it. They usually like legislated corporate greed.
Obama for his part has done nothing to steer health care. He just wants it
and seems to care less what kind of crap the corporate shills come up with.
Sad, we did have hope for the guy but he is not delivering. What we are
getting is about what we would have gotten if McCain had been elected. We'd
also have Afghanistan, fancy that. Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. Oh well!
James Of Tucson
> Leading the grousing from the left has been Howard Dean, a former
> Democratic National Committee chairman who ran unsuccessfully for his
> party's presidential nomination in 2004.
Has President Obama even sought Howard Dean's support?