Poll: Majority Of Americans Wants Dems To Suspend Work On Health Care

As warm as the Florida sun. The beach, fun in the sand. Having a nice time this morning with the health care bill. Obama is in command of it.

I keep hearing from people that I should like the Senate bill even though it sucks because incremental change is good (never mind if it's actually headed in the right direction.) So I assume I won't hear objections from such people to doing a smaller increment that also has fewer of the toxic policy and political side effects of the Senate bill. And these poll numbers confirm the political wisdom of that more modest approach.

But the thing is, unlike the more ambitious attempts this smaller bite of the apple had better actually be GOOD. I still think Medicare buyin at younger ages is the best incremental approach. But it won't be easy; the insurers understand the long-term threat from that approach (which is the same reason I like it, of course- salami tactics are the only way we'll eventually be rid of them, though eventually is likely to be quite a long time.)

The Democrats are jealous of the Republicans.

They are jealous of the way Republicans ran their party and the country into the ground. They want some of that too! So they are working hard at achieving the same result.

And succeeding.

Cowardice will prevail. The Republicans have boxed these idiots into a corner because of their snail pace. Heck, let's just cover 10,000 more folks and call it a day.

Let's not try to cross every t and dot every i at this point in time. If we pass this, then we can argue the merits in the fall campaign. Pivot to a jobs bill or banking reform and get the Republicans on record as favoring or opposing more popular changes so we can hammer them in the fall.

Either Democrats have the generally right ideas or we don't. If we don't then we need to accept right now the fall carnage and that Obama will be a one-term president.

If Mass is getting a raw deal, then their brand spanking new Senator can propose a fix. If Nelson has led Nebraska into a public display of greed, then so be it. He needs to be defeated in a primary anyway. We had good chances at adding a Senate seat to the Democratic column and those changes are rapidly decreasing as I type.

55% of poll respondents need to be educated on the fact that republicans *will not support any health care bill*. Period. Or anything else that Democrats want to do, for that matter. They simply don't see anything wrong with the current system.

Republicans DON'T want ANYTHING to pass in terms of healthcare! They are the Party of No. Why don't Americans see this? Their health care reform plan is joke!

they have to do one thing to save the 33 percent.

scrap it.

pass one little thing from it.

make it illegal to exclude preexisting conditions.

period.

alot of people would be estatic.

Some act like this is actually some kind of political move on the part of Democrats to end the suffering of millions of Americans. If a Muslim organization could inflict this kind harm on the American public as is being done by the corporate, profiteering, insurance giants, they would have accomplished their Jihad. What is wrong with conservatives that they actually root for the continued suffering of hard working American citizens. Then the proudly wear their "pro-life" badges. More like Low-life. C'mon really? "F@ck the sick?" Some of you trolls are so against anything Dem or Obama you don't see humanity through the hoards of tea bagging, Beck sucking, ditto heads. The real rage is yet to be seen when rep's return home and try to explain why it's just not politically do-able to take care of American citizens while we spend billions to try to control countries that cannot and will not be controlled.