Washington White Out

It looks like amidst blizzard like conditions in DC today, the Senate is finally ready to pass sweeping health coverage/insurance changes. Part of the white out besides two feet of swirling snow in some places is what's finally going to get passed. The House passed their version in November that had the public option still attached, but Lieberman (Droopy Dog) and surprisingly several Democrats kept putting up roadblocks to the public option, extending Medicare and abortion crapola from Nebraska. Now we have this watered down thing that's going to pass by Christmas Eve (maybe - anyone else wanna throw in a last minute monkey wrench?) that will hold insurance companies more accountable (hopefully) and extend coverage to 30 million, but it could have been so much more. Also, yesterday the Copenhagen Climate Summit finished with last minute negotions for a treaty including us and China BUT it was really a compromise with no deadlines or real emmissions cuts...so what's going on here? I voted for Obama and change a year ago and a majority of people wanted these things yet we're not seeing them go through. I partly blame the right of course and assholes like Beck, Limbaugh and Palin for making sure that their less then higher numbers are still heard more because of their loud open breathing mouths, but I also blame Obama and a bunch of Dems that can't even get shit straight among themselves. I read Ron Paul's 'End the Fed' a few months back and I must say, taking the even more independent path is starting to really look like the way to go. I read Obama's book, I bought into the belief of hope and a turnaround from the fucking nightmare that this decade has been, and I know that you can't get everything you want, but is it too hard to ask for health care for everyone? Is it too hard to listen to 99% of scientists and try to start cleaning up the mess our world has become? Is it too hard to NOT listen to a bunch of corporate bitches that are NOT scientists, or that have always had health coverage? Apparently so.