Comments on: Senate Democrats cause me to reach for my Pepto Bismol http://www.whereistheoutrage.net/wordpress/2009/12/09/senate-democrats-cause-me-to-reach-for-my-pepto-bismol/ Thoughtful, intelligent, entertaining, progressive discussion about politics, sports and whatever Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tom Degan http://www.whereistheoutrage.net/wordpress/2009/12/09/senate-democrats-cause-me-to-reach-for-my-pepto-bismol/comment-page-1/#comment-62901 Tom Degan Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:12:21 +0000 http://www.whereistheoutrage.net/wordpress/?p=11378#comment-62901 The public option is obviously as dead as a doornail. My advice to the progressives is to take what they can get now. I don't know what kind of health care reform will come out of this session, but I strongly suspect it won't be much. There is, however a silver lining behind this very dark cloud. I am reminded of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Don't be embarrassed if you've never heard of it, there really isn't a hell of a lot to remember about it; a mere pittance, really - a scrap of leftovers tossed out to "American Negros" (in the parlance of the age) in order to appease them. But it made the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - the one we remember - all the more easier seven years later. We'll live to fight another day. http://www.tomdegan.blogspot.com Tom Degan The public option is obviously as dead as a doornail. My advice to the progressives is to take what they can get now.

I don’t know what kind of health care reform will come out of this session, but I strongly suspect it won’t be much. There is, however a silver lining behind this very dark cloud. I am reminded of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Don’t be embarrassed if you’ve never heard of it, there really isn’t a hell of a lot to remember about it; a mere pittance, really – a scrap of leftovers tossed out to “American Negros” (in the parlance of the age) in order to appease them. But it made the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 – the one we remember – all the more easier seven years later.

We’ll live to fight another day.

http://www.tomdegan.blogspot.com

Tom Degan

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