Tom, what happened to you...you used to be a contender

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/health/policy/21poll.html?bl&ex=1245729600&en=d44716a77315c19c&ei=5087%0A

I worry that changes in the health care system are going to be stymied in the Congress aided by evil republicans and spineless dems. I was happy to hear that despite the hysterical pounding Obama is getting from Republicans aided by the press, that according to this poll, a public health care option is still has a great deal of support. I was sickened yesterday when I heard that Tom Daschle had withdrawn his support for the public option. Of course he had teamed with these luminaries - Bob Dole and James Baker. When you have two corrupt and compromised individuals what do you expect? Who can forget James Baker with a straight face during the 2000 recount droning, "They were counted once, they were counted twice..." His lies helped install that nincompoop George Bush. Bob Dole had the gall to suggest during the 2004 election that maybe there was something to the Swiftboaters charges, after all why would there be a question if there was no truth to what they were saying? All I can say is that Tom Daschle has spent way too much time in DC if he thinks these two have any wisdom to share. I guess if you spend all your time in the Beltway, they seem like reasonable human beings with reasonable ideas.I was initially very disappointed when Daschle had to withdraw his cabinet nomination. No more. I have hear Seibelius on the tube discussing health care, and quite accurately snuffed out the argument about not having choice if you don't have private health care. She answered, "You don't have choice if you do." I wish she had pointed out that even with supposedly great health care, most families are one serious illness away from bankruptcy. Hopefully her experience outside of the miasma of the Beltway will stiffen her spine.