Despair

Posted by: Melinda on Jan 15, 2010 Print PDF

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Well, it seems that the Dems have managed to give Ted Kennedy's senate seat to the Repubs, which means the death of health care reform.  I really better sell that script, or find someone with insurance to marry me.

This bill did not go far enough, was not liberal enough for me, but at least it would have allowed me and 30 million other uninsured people to buy insurance, and kept the insurance drones from dropping me when I became ill.

I'm just sick to my stomach.  If there were an afterlife I'm sure Ted's soul would be spinning.

On a writing note -- I had an interesting conversation with Daniel Abraham, Walter John Williams, Ty Frank and Sage Walker about formula versus style versus voice.  I think I have some useful thoughts about the relevance of all three to writing, but I'm too dis-spirited to write it up right now.

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Don't Give Up Yet
written by S.C. Butler, January 15, 2010
It ain't over till it's over. Fingers remain crossed.
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Trying Not to Give Up
written by Melindas, January 16, 2010
I'm trying to hold out some hope, but in someways the liberals have asked for this. Unlike the right we attack our own like rats in a cage. For months Progressive talkers like Ed Schultz and many others have slammed the health care bill, and argued to "kill it", we'll take it up again next year. Well, there won't be a next year. It will be another generation, and god help people without insurance during those years.

Last night I went to a poker party, and listened to smug liberals talking about how it's a "good thing" if the bill dies. First, it's a body blow to Obama, possibly a fatal blow, it leaves so many of us desperate, and don't they understand that improvements can be made to this bill with _51_ votes.

As with Social Security and Medicare -- you put in a framework and then you make improvements.

It feels like Democratic voters are just spitting on Kennedy's grave. Sorry, I'm very bitter and very depressed. Obama has accomplished a great deal in a very short time. As Connie Willis said, it's as if everyone decided that Churchill hadn't done the job fast enough so I guess I'll vote for Hitler.
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written by S.C. Butler, January 18, 2010
We get the government we deserve, and right now, based on your poker party and MA, we don't deserve much better. For anyone who thinks there's a better alternative than what Congress mananged to come up with over the last six months, I offer a name and number.

Nader 2000.

The polls have only gotten uglier.

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