Rahm and the Blue Dogs: Killing Health Care One Concession at a Time

The Blue Dog Democrats have done it again. Apparently not ashamed at the revelation that they have been raising heaps of money from health insurance companies while determining whether or not ordinary Americans deserve access to health care, they have now succeeded in watering down and delaying any potential bill. They have basically removed the employer mandate provision from the bill, ensuring that businesses with profits under $500,000 per year will not be required to provide their employees with insurance.

Unsurprisingly, they've been aided and abetted by serial conservative Rahm Emmanuel, who has proven to be one of those dickhead "pragmatists" who would rather pass a useless and compromised piece of shit than ever take a moral stand on any issue. Anyone really think that it's a mere coincidence that both Democratic White Houses he's worked in made abrupt turns to the right upon taking office?

As Matt Taibbi so brilliantly put it, Congress doesn't exist to protect voters from special interests. It exists to protect special interests from voters. This process in particular and Obama's inept six months in office should make crystal for everyone the fallacy of American democracy. Stop wasting your time with the kabuki dance of voting. It doesn't matter what suits call themselves our political representatives, because they have no itnerest in representing us.