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To Kill or Not to Kill the Bill
The progressive community is at each other's throats over the health care bill: some say kill it and start over, others say pass it now and fix it later. Without a public option, Medicare buy-in, or other cost-controlling measures, and with Stupak and Nelson holding women's rights for ransom, is there anything good left in this bill?
We ask Chris Hayes, Washington editor for The Nation, Lizz Winstead, host and producer of Shoot the Messenger and co-creator of The Daily Show, and Miriam Yeung of Women of Color United for Health Care what's in, what's out, and what the best course of action is now for progressives who want to see real reform.
You can also catch Lizz Winstead on December 31, starring in "What the F*CK Just Happened: a Year in Review" with special guest Ed Schultz at the Parkway Theater in Minneapolis.
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I agree with Winstead about many things but in particular:
1. People who are attempting to silence Jane Hamsher are out of line. The liberal wing of the democratic party has always done their own thinking. That used to be alright before Obama started selling us out. He is not George Bush, and we are not lemming.
2. We need real democrats in democratic seats. By that I mean democrats who honor the party platform. We are a pro choice, pro labor, pro civil rights, pro single payer party. If you look the words democratic platform up in the dictionary your will see Bernie Sanders face in the margin. Rohm Emanuel’s idea that any warm body with a D in front of their name will do is wrong, not to mention dumb and dangerous.
One question I would like to ask is what in hell is the object of limiting women’s access to safe, therapeutic abortion? We have always had abortion on demand in this country. We do it in hospitals now instead of garages. De-legalize it and we go back to the garage. Women will die. Who benefits from this? That is a damn good question for someone in the media to answer. I am not impressed with the, “We do it for Jesus,” argument. From what we have seen for the last several months in Congress, their God is green and the only things they worship are power and the free market.
By theherbangoddess on December 25th, 2009 at 1:51 pm