The Linear Canvas

I guess I should have known that the threats to withhold campaign contributions, and whatever other methods the corporate insurance elite have been using to get the current administration back in line would work eventually. Now there’s talk that President Obama will announce his surrender to them on the health care issues that I think would have the biggest impact, Single Payer and/or the Public Option. I sent an e-mail to the White House this morning and this is what I wrote:

President Obama,

I am a life long Democrat. I supported you through most of your campaign. I have never voted for a non-Democrat for president.

Now that you have decided (?) to surrender to the medical cartel, first on single payer and now on a public health care option, my only thought is that how “they” have won and “you (alone)” have failed. Do you think Fox News will ever let you live this down? Fox and their paymasters have beaten you and they know it. I, for one, am ashamed. I am ashamed that lies and money have finally gotten to you. Maybe I am the one that failed in believing that you were capable or willing to change anything.

This was your Waterloo and you did not win. You just managed to have an orderly surrender.

I only hope that the amendment, put forth by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), in the House of Representatives allowing each state individually to enact a single payer plan survives. But then if any state would try to get single payer passed, I wonder if they can get any support from Washington or the same capitualtion to the moneyed interests that hold our whole country hostage to the insurance companies today. No doubt it would be a losing battle. Without campain finance reform, we are all screwed.