{"id":96,"date":"2009-09-13T22:38:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T08:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peoplesdialectic.com\/?p=96"},"modified":"2009-09-13T22:38:18","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T08:38:18","slug":"strong-well-crafted-words-from-bill-maher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/peoplesdialectic.com\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"Strong, Well-Crafted Words from Bill Maher"},"content":{"rendered":"

I came across an article today that one which I feel the need to comment. Bill Maher, talk show host and progressive guest blogger on HuffingtonPost.com, put to words<\/a> much better than I could, the things I’ve been thinking and feeling at least since the health care debate started heating up this summer, if not since Obama took office.<\/p>\n

Its also been my major complaint with the Democratic Party since they took back control of the U.S. House in 2006; right off the bat, House leadership proclaimed impeachment was ‘off the table.’<\/p>\n

For progressives, such as myself, the Obama Presidency has been a huge disappointment thus far. From discharging Van Jones, to a weak environmental emissions regulation bill, to his most recent concessions on health care reform, Obama has bowed to Republican pressure every time.<\/p>\n

Those who supported Obama from the beginning (of which I am not one), they’re still waiting for the campaign promised ‘change we can believe in.’<\/p>\n

Bill Maher voices, with insight and humor, what I believe many progressives and even some Democrats are thinking. With Democrats controlling BOTH houses of Congress, not to mention the White House, I think its really time for Republicans (and their pundits) to remember what it feels like to be relegated to the minority party.<\/p>\n

He (and Democrats generally) caved without a fight on a Single-Payer solution to our health care woes, only to have a fight about his watered-down-at-best solution which is little more than a bail out, or subsidy, to the health insurance industry. A public option, as described by Obama, is likely to act like a syphon drawing the sick and elderly out of the private insurance system, eventually driving the public insurance system to bankruptcy.<\/p>\n

Referring to a Single-Payer option as the hope of the left, Obama by default invalidates it as a real and valid solution to our health care crisis.<\/p>\n

And now, Obama has begun to look to ‘overhaul the financial regulatory system,’ according to the Washington Post<\/a>. Here’s hoping Obama is far more of an ‘asshole’ in regulating the financial market than he has been in dealing with health care reform…..<\/p>\n

I won’t be holding my breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I came across an article today that one which I feel the need to comment. Bill Maher, talk show host and progressive guest blogger on HuffingtonPost.com, put to words much better than I could, the things I’ve been thinking and feeling at least since the health care debate started heating up this summer, if not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,7,8,9,11,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/peoplesdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/peoplesdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/peoplesdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/peoplesdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/peoplesdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/peoplesdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/peoplesdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/peoplesdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/peoplesdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}