26 February 2010

i'd put howard dean on suicide watch....

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“The president will take into account what he heard yesterday” and make an announcement next week on the “way forward," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said.

As if to underscore the urgency of passing health reform quickly, Obama dispatched three of his top aides – chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, senior adviser David Axelrod and legislative affairs director Phil Schiliro – to meet with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Friday evening. The three emerged from the meeting but didn’t speak to reporters about why they were there.
Though I did not mention him while dead-blogging the healthcare summit last night, he was never far from my thoughts while enduring it. Rahm and Hillary slit his throat in 2004 so that she could run in 2008 and while it must have been sweet for a moment when she lost the nomination, NOTHING, but NOTHING, in Dean's vision, which did more to get Obama elected even than the Goldman Sachs cash, has improved because of it.

Really hateful space lizards are in control.

...OR he's tipping heavily to denial... and I can't blame him for it... yet....
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I should add that there IS some basis for part of a dram of optimism at this point, but only the minutest part. The thing is: Democrats are horrifically unpopular right now and it may be that the ONLY thing they have to keep their majority is to deliver some substantive goodies on healthcare. I'm pretty sure they will opt for the APPEARANCE of substance over actual substance, so... no shit... don't succumb to your desperation for relief. Steady now.
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Average amount spent on congressional lobbying, per day, by U.S. health-care companies in 2009 : $1,500,000
—January 2010 Harper's Index
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