PELOSI: People Be Damned,...

Unbelievable.

What got us here in the first place:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/art...tiy_99605.html

From Robert Creamer, convicted felon, Presidential adviser, bank fraud, embezzlement:

• * “We must create a national consensus that health care is a right, not a commodity; and that government must guarantee that right.”
  

• * “We must create a national consensus that the health care system is in crisis.”
  

• * “Our messaging program over the next two years should focus heavily on reducing the credibility of the health insurance industry and focusing on the failure of private health insurance.”
  

• * “We need to systematically forge relationships with large sectors of the business/employer community.”
  

• * “We need to convince political leaders that they owe their elections, at least in part, to the groundswell of support of [sic] universal health care, and that they face political peril if they fail to deliver on universal health care in 2009.”
  

• * “We need not agree in advance on the components of a plan, but we must foster a process that can ultimately yield consensus.”
  

• * “Over the next two years, we must design and organize a massive national field program.”
  

• * “We must focus especially on the mobilization of the labor movement and the faith community.”
  

• * “We must systematically leverage the connections and resources of a massive array of institutions and organizations of all types.”
  

• * “To be successful, we must put in place commitments for hundreds of millions of dollars to be used to finance paid communications and mobilization once the battle is joined.
  

-From the book (written in prison) Listen to Your Mother: Stand Up Straight! How Progressives Can Win (Seven Locks Press, 2007). The book was endorsed by leading Democrats and their allies, including SEIU boss Andy Stern—the most frequent visitor thus far to the Obama White House—and chief Obama strategist David Axelrod, who noted that Creamer’s tome “provides a blueprint for future victories.” In the book, Creamer draws lessons from decades of experience on the radical left, including the teachings of arch-radical Saul Alinsky, and several episodes from Rep. Schakowsky’s political career. He also lays out a “Progressive Agenda for Structural Change,” which includes a ten-point plan for foisting universal health care on the American people in 2009:

McCain says he will defeat any reform plan comming from the Democratic Party.

In other words there will be nothing done.

Very Believable!

Why don't the insurance industry put their own people up for election?
Oops, my bad, they already own them all.

Not hardly.

garyd, they have enough of them to do what they want. Do you honestly believe that all this was nothing more than a dog and pony show for the people?

No I don't I beieve the Dems thought they were given carte blanche to do things the way they have always done them and have sudenly discovered that politics as usual Democrat style suddenly has gotten the American people more than a little fed up. For my money it has only taken this long because the old boys news networks would have either cover up the back room wheeling and dealing or burried in a small column under the obituaries. They don't get to do that any more and Fox news and the internet whether anyone likes it or not is a large part of the reason.