It's Over, Johnny

Like Kos, I get mail from the President... or rather the DNC, because I contributed to Obama's campaign last year.. when I thought he actually meant what he was saying. Markos wasn't thrilled with the DNC asking for more money.

Really? All we have to do is send the DNC $5 and we get ponies? The same DNC that is enabling corporatist Democrats to water down and destroy any hope for health care reform? That DNC?

This is so freakin' obnoxious I can hardly stand it. We are about to get a turd of a "reform" package, potentially worse than the status quo. We have the insurance industry declaring victory, Republicans cackling with glee, and the administration is using that piece of shit to raise money?

Obama spent all year enabling Max Baucus and Olympia Snowe, and he thinks we're supposed to get excited about whatever end result we're about to get, so much so that we're going to fork over money? Well, it might work with some of you guys, but I'm certainly not biting. In fact, this is insulting, betraying a lack of understanding of just how pissed the base is at this so-called reform. The administration may be happy to declare victory with a mandate that enriches insurance companies, yet creates little incentive to control costs or change the very business practices that have screwed so many people. But I'll pass.

Democrats are demoralized, and have little incentive to turn out next year. The teabaggers will turn out. If this is how the Obama camp thinks we can energize the base -- by promising them a health care pony for $5 to the same Democratic Party that is home to the likes of Baucus, Nelson, Lincoln, Lieberman, and the rest of the obstructionist gang -- then we're in for a world of hurt in 2010.

As I've said before, I'm somewhat ambivalent about politics, because I'm a member of the privileged class in the US.. mostly healthy white male with money and a good job. The progressive cause mostly doesn't speak to me, but I've supported it because I simply agree with the policy.

I'm not going to be negatively affected if the Loon Brigade takes over. They can't touch me.. or us. It's just annoying because I'm more motivated by seeing the Loon Brigade destroyed than anything else. Once that evil is no more, rational policy may actually emerge.

However, the downside of a Republican control of Congress, or even a defeat of Obama in 2012, is simply the competitive factor. The Loons like to claim that Americans are "waking up" and are turning on Obama because of his "Socialist" agenda.. and other nonsense along those lines. The truth is.. nobody really likes the freak jobs on the right wing, but if Obama is not going to deliver what he promised, throw him out and throw out the Democrats in Congress. Get rid of all of them and start over again.

I'm not sending any of them anymore money. I'm not going to vote for any of them, and I'm not going to simply go along with their program. They're not representing the interest of the American public. They are doing what politicians have always done..

Nobody really thought that the health insurance companies would come out of this "reform" without an increase in revenue, did they? Think any of the Democrats are not bought and sold? Obama? Fuck him.