Clinton plans Tuesday meetings with all Hill Democrats

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98. Even so, was there ANYBODY ELSE ANYWHERE who was willing to stick his or her neck out

on this? Regardless the execution. NOBODY wanted to bother with sorting out the health care crisis in this country. Either they expected it not to go anywhere so it was a useless fight to attempt to begin with, OR they were just plain scared of venturing out into the weeds. Because it's just so much easier to sit back on the sidelines and criticize.

She actually stuck her neck out. And whether the WAY she went about it was good or bad really doesn't matter a lot to me in the long run. What matters to me is that she got in there and TRIED. She got in there with both feet and took a crack at it. WHO ELSE around there, around then, was willing to take that risk? When the task is really hard, some people throw in the towel before they reach the starting block - because it's hard. It's too hard. Not gonna get anywhere. Why try? All that effort will go nowhere, won't gain any ground and blah-blah-blah. She forged ahead anyway - because it needed to be done. That she was sniped to death about it, well, I put the blame as much with the fault-finders as I do with whatever mistakes she might have made. They found fault? Easy for them to say! Where were THEIR asses when the work needed to be done? Why didn't THEY get up and off their lazy complacent butts and try to do something?

WHERE WERE THEY????? I know exactly where they were. Off in the peanut gallery with their bags of popcorn and their spit balls, neither rolling up their sleeves and trying to get something constructive accomplished, nor willing to stick their necks out, get their hands dirty, and try to do some actual WORK on the problem - perish the thought. Health care chickenhawks, ALL. If they didn't like the way she tried to do it, WHERE WERE THEY? With THEIR ideas and THEIR approach to solving the problem and THEIR meetings and THEIR fact-finding and THEIR skin in the game? If they thought her efforts were so lousy, then WHERE WERE THEIRS??????