Can someone please explain to Harry Reid that Americans in overwhelming majorities want health care reform with a national public option, Bush was not re-elected, and the Republicans have become a party of naysayers that want only to prove the Dems can't accomplish any progressive objectives while misleading Americans about the impact of stimulus programs and the cause of the Great Recession in deeply rooted Republican policies favoring military spending, deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy?
Apparently, he hasn't gotten the message, even though the Republican naysayer in chief, Sarah Pallin, has flamed out as she quit her post in government 18 months before her term's end, probably because she was afraid of facing the sterner music now playing in Alaska, couldn't avoid admitting that Alaska is funded primarily by federal tax dollars from other states (for every $1 in federal taxes paid by Alaskans, the state receives more than $1.80 in federal tax monies as aid) and wanted to make lots more money on the lecture circuit.
See Bruce Webb's post on Angry Bear today, "Was it a Gang of Seven?" (also on Salon at this link). Noting that the Republicans have taken a controlling seat at the table that freezes out the representatives of the vast majority of Americans.
Reid, Kent Conrad and Max Baucus need to have their heads (and maybe their hearts, too) examined.
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