BandsofBlack's Comments (300)

“I agree. And I'm puzzled as to why they can't see this. I guess they're blinded by all the shiny coins the lobbyists give them.”

“I agree with you. And you're right, if they pass this and don't improve it pretty darn quickly the Dems will be ousted from power in the mid-term election, not because the repubs are any better than them (bleh), but because their supporters will be so disheartened and betrayed.”

“I agree with you completely. And I'm sick of voting for the lesser o two evils. I'll still vote, but I'll only vote for truly progressive candidates.”

“And who exactly is going to be around to amend it? By passing this piece-of-you-know-what bill the Dems in Congress are issuing their own pink slips and handing the 2010 elections to the repubs on a platter.

What a bunch of...”

“oops, delete the word "him".”

“I was all for Kucinich him before the media picked Obama and Hillary as the chosen two for us.”

“But, but, but... he never said he'd *fill in the blank*.

Bull.”

“They sure are. And what drives me especially crazy is that so many Dems refuse to see it. Most everyone here used to be on my side, and vice versa, but now I'm vilified on a daily basis for pointing out Obama's duplicitous ways, but I'm getting used to it.”

“Exactly.

"Now" is never the time for some people.”

“Hey, at least Nixon was trying to sabotage the opposition, (and no I don't think that was a good thing), but Obama and the Blue Dogs are sabotaging their own party.”

“And we all lose.”

“Okay. I'm a little slow. I actually thought this commenter was calling me a rethug when, in fact, he/she was just giving me another "but..."

I've been called a rethug so many times, I didn't stop to think about what they actually meant.”

“Okay. I'm a little slow. I actually thought you were calling me a rethug when, in fact, you were just giving me another but...

I've been called a rethug so many times, I didn't stop to think about what you actually meant.”

“This is in response to a comment from you that appears on my list of comments, but not with the article, when I listed the usual excuses given for Obama letting us down you said I left out that I was "just a rethug who never supported Obama anyway".

I've been a registered commenter here since March of 2006. Click on my user name and go look at my comments from this time last year or last summer. You know what you'll see? Someone who threw themselves behind Obama wholeheartedly, who worked hard to get him elected and gave 'til it hurt and kept his signs up in the windows even after our house was vandalized. (We live in a very red state)

Now follow my comments through this last year and you know what you'll see? Hope fading. And then hope dying.”

“This is in response to a comment that appears on my list of comments, but not here, the person (alternate id) said I left out that I was "just a rethug who never supported Obama anyway".

I've been a registered commenter here since March of 2006. Click on my user name and go look at my comments from this time last year or last summer or any time before that. You know what you'll see? Someone who threw themselves behind Obama wholeheartedly. I worked hard to get him elected and gave 'til it hurt and kept his signs up in the windows even after our house was vandalized. (We live in a very red state)

Now follow my comments through this last year and you know what you'll see? Hope fading. And then hope dying.”

“Obama / Rahm, Tomato / Tomahto”

“Let me save some folks some time:

But... it's only been *fill in the blank* # of months. Nothing can be done in that amount of time.

But... he has so much on his plate and he can't possibly deal with ANY of it.

But... he can't do x,y or z because he's saving all his fight for health care reform. (LOL / sob)

But... he's playing chess and we're all going to be amazed when we find out what he's really been up to behind the scenes... (losing to *fill in the blank* at chess).

But... Palin//Huckabee/Romney will be president if you don't vote for Obama. And he's not quite as bad as they'd be. (And it'll be all YOUR fault if that happens. Not Obama's or the Dems in Congress.)

But... If he comes out as a strong leader he'll be a dictator just like Bush... (Apparent exceptions: making back-room deals with the drug companies and taking single payer off the table before the debate even began.)

But, but, but, but, but, bleh...”

“We didn't give up on it.

Obama gave it up on our "behalf".”

“Yeah, I agree.”

“And the saddest thing of all is that, because Obama and the Dems are failing us, people like cjop think they're going to "win" something.

Too bad they don't realize they've lost too.

So I guess the jokes on all of us.

Bleh.”

“Bingo.

And we all lose.”

“Well said and seconded.”

“I hate to break it to you, but progressives are already ignored by the powers that be.

And the only way we won't continue to be ignored is if we stop threatening to take our votes and go home and actually do it.

As to the current bill, I agree with Howard Dean:

"In an interview with Salon late Thursday, however, Dean insisted that he would support a version of the current legislation, with certain changes, and that he had "never said" he would only back a bill that included a public option. "We're not going to get reform," he said, meaning what he regards as true reform, which would have to include a public option or an expansion of Medicare. "The question is, can we get a bill that does some good instead of more harm than good. And in order to do that, the protectionist legislation for the insurance companies that is in there now needs to be stripped out entirely."

What irks him the most in the current bill, he said, is that it permits insurance companies to charge as much as 300 percent more to some customers than others. So even though they must provide coverage to anyone who applies -- known as "guaranteed issue" -- the price differential that can be charged to older or sicker customers virtually erases that promise. "If you have to pay $20,000 a year for insurance, what good does it do if you have guaranteed issue?" he asked rhetorically."”

“We also gave 'til it hurt.

That's how stupid I was.

And I wore that stupid t-shirt everywhere I went. No matter what insults were hurled at me, and hurled they were.

That's how stupid I was.

But you know what, because of where we live our votes don't matter anyway. So you don't have to worry about us. But there's a whole lot of other folks out there who feel the same way we do that you do have to worry about,.”

“In fact, I'd like to tell you exactly how stupid I was.

My spouse and I live in a small town in Utah. We put an Obama sign in our yard and it was stolen. We put out another and would take it in at night, but it was stolen too. We then put it inside the window and had rocks thrown at our window. They broke part of the vinyl and scratched the windows. We still left it there. We then had eggs thrown at our house - our stucco house. A whole lot of them. It took us an entire day to scrub the mess off, but we still kept the sign up.

That's how much I believed in his message of change and hopefor the people of this country. That's how stupid I was.

But I will never be that stupid again.”