Demand PERFECTION!

[zbdent]

A lot of new ("new"??? Many of the "vote them all out!" Republicans are former members!) members of Congress got plenty of traction from the market-tested phrase "Repeal and Replace!"

However, when it comes to reality, how many people really like the concept of tearing something up and waiting for something better to "replace" what was "repealed"?

(I wonder how many Republicans would approve of repeal first and then replace the 2nd Amendment with a "better" worded amendment?)

How many people would be happy with "repealing" their house, only to not have anything to live in until the "replacement" is built?

My point is ... Republicans, before they can "repeal" the health care legislation

(which, by their flawed poll wording and logic, nobody's happy with ... just when you get into the why they aren't happy with, that's when it is apparent that people don't hate as much of it as the generic polls imply) ...

THEY HAVE TO HAVE SOMETHING BETTER IN PLACE!

Now, the Republicans (and some Dems) are really good at conflating something into "the worst thing ever" to tear down whatever is proposed (hmm ... "death panels" anyone?).

Their attacks on the health care legislation are geared toward making sure that the screams about what "concerns" them are extremely loud. (If it wasn't "mandatory" that someone had to purchase health insurance, then they'd have someone lined up to loudly scream, in the "liberally-biased media", that people were getting something "for free" on the backs of "the working class").

So, with all the screaming about point A or point B in the legislation, then anything that they propose MUST BE PERFECT. No, I'm not saying that what they'll propose will be perfect, I'm saying that it has to please EVERYBODY. Nobody in their reasonable mind can complain about any detail of what they propose. If you consider Sarah Palin and her screams about "death panels" "reasonable", then you have a tough road ahead of you to achieve the "perfect" legislation. Far too many times have I heard that a proposal was "deeply flawed" (read: authored by a Dem), while the Republican "alternative" was "not perfect" ... whatever they submit ... IT HAS TO BE PERFECT.

So, demand PERFECTION ... there can be nothing found in their reform of the health care reform which is "bad". They've set the standards.

And don't repeal, until you have PERFECTION already voted in as it's "replacement".

[Andy823]

1. Yep...

We have to hold them all accountable, demand they do something, protest if the don't, and keep front and center what they said during the elections about how they would "change' things for the better! If you have a republican from your state in congress, keep writing or calling them asking them "when will we see new jobs"! Write to you local papers in letters to the editor and ask the same questions, keep in front and center that they made promises, when will they keep them!

[SheilaT]

2. Do unto them.

They deserve it.

I'm sick and tired of the total lack of proactivity (is that a word?) on the part of Democrats in leadership positions. Where were the ads pointing out the Obama tax cuts for the middle class? Where were the ads showing the desperately sick kids who now could no longer be kicked off their parents' health plan? Where were the ads pointing out that all the years Bush was creating the Biggest Deficit Ever (at least I think it was the biggest ever) Republicans like Boehner and McConnell were happily going along?

The Progressive agenda really needs to be pushed and pushed hard. We need a Progressive equivalent of the idiotic Tea Party. Only our movement would be made up of people who actually understand that government does a lot of good for everyone.