Except when he did.
Media Matters—via Americablog—documented the promises made about the public option back when Joe Lieberman claimed that a public option hadn’t been mentioned during the 2008 presidential campaign. Lieberman lied when he said the public option didn’t come up during the campaign and Obama is lying now when he claims that he never campaigned on it. Don’t get me wrong: I want the current HCR bill to pass. Liberals and lefties and progressives preferred a HCR bill with the promised and campaigned on public option. But if we’re going to get HCR without a public option, Mr. President, liberals and lefties and progressives would prefer it without any unnecessary insults to our intelligence, thanks.
Dan Savage is a progressive, and prefers not to have any unnecessary insults to his intelligence. Thanks.
Hey, we’re a little less than 24 hours away from the biggest piece of progressive legislation to pass Congress in the last 40 years. Now’s the perfect time to sabotage that victory with semantic squabbling.
Hey, Dan, quick question. Would any of that bullshit have changed the way Nelson or Lieberman would have voted? No? Then kindly fuck off.
facepalm obama
I don’t think the actual law being completely devoid of the promised outcome is ‘semantic squabbling.’
Tell me how this (compromised) ‘change’ is different than any politician ever elected.
Dan Savage never wrote simplistic, sanctimonious, Dr. Phil lite tripe.
Except when he did.
I’m glad Dan Savage hasn’t fallen into the trap of worshiping Obama. He’s doing what he should be doing: Looking at *all* politicians critically. And here, he’s right. That’s a bald-faced lie by Obama. Now go defend him anyway and pretend it never happened, children.
“Promised outcome” says it all. As if all of HCR was tied into the words public option.
Still haven’t told me how you’d sneak that public option past Lieberman and Nelson.
http://www.politico.com/static/PPM136_0912…
Christ on a cracker. It’s on the verge of the most significant piece of legislation to pass congress in 40 years.
Progressives: Quit wanking off on the win. It takes time. This is a major, major step and in the end we get what we want.
Conservatives: Suck it up. Your party unity is dead. You will lose election after election because you think replaying the 1950s is in right now. Your tiny minority likes to talk alot but you’ve alienated every independent thinker known to man. Have fun sucking the mumblespeak tit of Sarah Palin. I look forward to you losing election after election.