The President is off staycationing with the rich, playing golf with corrupt bankers who give him enormous bribes. Any chance that he's having a come-to-Jesus on healthcare?

I doubt it.

Reich is grasping at moonbeams.

We're screwed.

Obama has treated average citizens as an afterthought, a given, chumps.

Kennedy's death could not have come at a worse time, but not for the reasons the boomer elitists in the media have been pounding into our earholes. The whole funeral week--death for both the Senator and healthcare--has been a riot of elitist Democrats trumpeting their own goodness and the rightness of noblesse oblige. It's completely wrong in attitude and message. Look at Obama vacationing off in the enclave of the wealthy liberals, playing golf with entitled criminals.

The real message of Kennedy for our present hour is that the elites feel they can trade us, abuse us, even kill us, without penalty. If they give us a token piece of the health care that is our right, they will claim that tokenism as an "accomplishment" to be listed prominently in their obituaries. And lo, we average citizens must bow down to them.

What would it take to make meaningful reform? Obama would actually have to believe, in his heart, that healthcare matters to America and accept that America is more than just his rich cronies. Not just offer a "reform" approved by the wealthy who are bribing him with enormous campaign contributions and sotte vocce promises of Clintonesque post-Presidency payoffs. Not just so Obama can boast a Ted Kennedyesque resume of studious redemption.

But because by God it's the right thing to do and he'll make comprehensive, affordable healthcare happen come hell or highwater.

As the elites gathered today, jovially slapping each other on the back on the live feed, it was hard not to think about how much they've gotten away with, how little they've done for America these past many years, and how much they've enriched themselves and their families at our expense.

Will Obama turn his back on this tradition of greed, and dive in to rescue the public option from certain death? Will he risk his own chance at a hundreds of millions of dollars in post Presidency payoffs?

We should have been arguing about which single payer option.

Barring that, which public option option.

Instead, we argue for belts and suspenders.

Obama has so cleverly weighted the debate in favor of the corporate elites, that none of the devilish details even enter the discussion.

Today, Obama could have turned his back on the corrupt elites. He could have buried Ceasar while praising him (them). He chose instead to walk back to the party at the beach house, call his advisors and lawyers, and go for a swim, while the trapped public option gasped for air and succumbed.

Ms Walsh channels her optimism from a past that never really was, and dreams of a present that never really is.

Gag me.

Senator Kennedy was the least. Not us.

I know it's wrong, but WaPo has become my favorite paper. The front page anti-Muslim editorials are the bomb. Everyday they fire me up to argue for an America free of ethnic and religious hatred.

Keep it up, WaPo bigots.

And not coincidentally, a man who used his inherited privilege to kill a non-elite woman without paying any meaningful legal consequence?

Can't the boomers come up with any better hero than this evil loser?

Can't the second-wavers at least TRY to suggest a substitute?

Oh yeah, let's all shut up, let health care availibility circle the drain, buy some popcorn and enjoy the Woodstock movies.

Peace, baby.

Liars.

I declare freedom from the Kennedys, the Clintons, the Bushes.

I declare freedom from the tyranny of the cramped, selfish boomer's dream.

I declare freedom from Obama's betrayal.

I declare freedom from Republicans and Democrats.

I declare freedom for all the post-boomers who are bearing the nation's burden of wars and misgovernment.

I declare freedom to remake democracy.

I claim our birthright.