On the Tuesday, December 16th broadcast of COUNTDOWN on MSNBC, Keith Olbermann dedicated most of his hour long show to the compromised health care reform bill now before the Senate. In special ten minute commentary to end his show, Olbermann was at his absolute best pointing out that what was once a great idea had been compromised and compromised and compromised yet again and was now a travesty that would be forcing people to buy into a product that was not worth buying into.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/34455431#34455431
If you can see this on the reruns that go throughout the night, you should watch it. Tomorrow, it will be available on the msnbc.com site and I will post a link for you. It was superb.
The people to blame for this tragedy are many. The forty Republicans in the Senate and their counterparts in the House - save a single one - who opposed this simply because it was the only way for them to politically survive are at the top of that list. The President and his employees in the White House who failed to provide strong leadership and a strong vision of what they wanted in this bill and were sucked into the mirage of phony bipartisanship time after time when they should have damn well knew better are also culpable. Then we have the Democratic whores in the Senate who have been bought and sold by the insurance cartel and only serve their rightful masters instead of serving the people. Max Baucus and Joe Lieberman head that list of infamy. And trailing behind those famous faces are the faceless zealots of the Tea Parties, the ideological neanderthals of the libertarian websites bowing to ideologies which exist only in their own 18th century minds as they fear the government which has been elected to serve us, and the just plain fear mongers who scream about death panels and killing grandma before her time.
The time has come for those on the Progressive side of politics to say "enough is enough". No more. Kill this thing now and begin the process of reconciliation. Allow the majority to have their will done and get a true reform bill which this nation badly needs.
Fight for true reform. Pass true reform. Run in 2010 and 2012 for doing so. Do the right thing.