Drug Industry to Run Ads Favoring White House Plan

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/health/policy/09lobby.html?_r=1

Obama's Deal With Big Pharma

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/141875/obama's_deal_with_big_pharma/

Obama's agreement with Big Pharma may help healthcare reform pass, but it may also mean higher drug prices for you http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/feature/2009/08/10/pharmaBY ROBERT REICH

From AP, March 29, 2010:

"Pharma came out of this better than anyone else," said Ramsey Baghdadi, a Washington health policy analyst who projects a $30 billion, 10-year net gain for the industry. "I don't see how they could have done much better."…

Lobbyists beat back proposals to allow importation of low-cost medicines and to have Medicare negotiate drug prices with companies. They also defeated efforts to require more industry rebates for the 9 million beneficiaries of both Medicare and Medicaid, and to bar brand-name drugmakers' payments to generic companies to delay the marketing of competitor products.

And who killed drug imports?

Washington has its share of murder mysteries, but the one that interests Sen. Byron Dorgan involves the untimely death of his amendment to allow cheaper prescription drug imports from Canada.

There are several sets of fingerprints in the Senate chamber where the legislation died, including some from the White House, says Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat. “They did not support this,” and worked with Democratic Senate leaders to kill it in order to move the larger bill forward, he said in an interview. The amendment failed in the Senate Tuesday evening.

You're making the mistake of confusing what you personally like with what the country as a whole prefers. This is a centrist country, and radicals like yourself just can't bear to admit it. Your comment on health care provides a perfect example:

"The house of representatives dared to do what the American people actually wanted. They passed a healthcare reform bill with a national health service built into it."

No, no, no. The American people to this day are negative on Obamacare. The reason that people are so angry is that they feel their representatives voted that monstrosity into law, in defiance of their wishes. And for these voters, tomorrow is payback time.

And like many liberals, you make elections and issues way too complicated. This is about jobs, and the economy. If Obama had devoted one quarter of the effort he gave to passing his horrible health care bill to fighting joblessness and reducing unemployment, I can assure you he wouldn't be facing the ass-kicking that he is going to receive tomorrow.

 

Well the Teabaggers that I know refer to Obama as "the Kenyan" openly and as "the N____" when only whites are around. One, a Polish fellow from Chicago called him in a fit of anger, "your Shine President". I haven't heard THAT word in forty years. I had almost forgotten it. So, yeah, his skin color is a HUGE part of it. If it was Hillary, it would be her gender and I would be hearing the "C" word. In fact, just mention her name and they start foaming at the mouth.

 

Not dumb? They all listen to Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly and think they are getting the truth. My boss actually spent his vacation to go to the Glen Beck rally in Washington. He was angry with the Park Service for only providing four port-a-potties. And here I thought he was for less government services!  Another thinks the answer to more jobs is less spending. I told him every economics textbook would say this will make the economy worse. His reply was,"It's got to get worse before it can get better. Glen Beck said so."

The party would never recover from that. 

But it can't succeed. If it does, the Party will be badly split on racial lines. The best scenario is if a challenger and Obama deadlock and a compromise candidate (Hillary?) acceptable to both factions takes the nomination.

You still don't get it: this is a center right country. Trust me: Obama is going to get an ass-kicking tomorrow, and it's not because the country regards him as insufficiently liberal. They want a return to Clinton-style pragmatism.

 

Well you could always join the dump Obama campaign over at Firedoglake. 

 

Maybe someone can sit him down and tell him he shouldn't run for a second term though in reality anyone following Obama with a D behind their name is going to have a hard time getting elected.

Dean or Feingold would be good.  Anything that gets Obama out of office in 2012. 

Well, if that ain't refudiation, then my real name ain't the mollusk.