Approaching 60 million people without any kind of insurance. Costs completely out of control to the point that the middle class now cannot tolerate the crunch on their budgets. Presciption costs completely ridiculous (I should know about this, my Enbrel would be $1400 a month if I didn't have Title 19! And that is for FOUR shots!!) and the corporate drug companies are making a literal and figuative killing! (Pun intended!) Vice President and Senator Kerry both had and presented comprehensive Universal Health Care plans, but the American populace preferred this current incompetence. The lies about Iraq and the fearmongering about Terrorism was more important in 2000 and 2004. Perhaps now, perhaps in 2008, we can all hope that the nation finally makes healthcare at least the second most important issue after the Iraq Debacle.

This is the Democratic trump card in my opinion; this is an issue we win hands down against any Republican ticket, and we must capitalize on it, but here is the kicker: Healthcare is such a huge issue that has so many sub-issues, it may be hard to focus on two or three of the most pressing issues under the healthcare umbrella. So what should we Dems and progressives work on?

Universal Healthcare for all? Prescription drug price regulation? Stem Cell research? More focus on Disability issues? Stronger enforcement of laws against Insurance companies? More focus on ideas to further assist Seniors? And these are only a few of the issues that healthcare covers. What say you? What should we focus on?

So now we Democrats have the power in the House and the Senate, and now face a quandry that is the Iraq Debacle and the labe we have been burdened with for far to long now: "The Democrats are weak on defense, blah, blah, blah...." If we Dems try and pull the plug on the funding, the outcry by the right will be the usual mantra of how we Dems don't support the troops and all the other lies that we hear on a neverending basis.  The Repulicans hope that the public will overlook the Iraq conflict and try to beat us over our heads with the "non-support" lies as the 2008 campaign gets into full force. We know the Iraq war is a debacle; a debacle that many of us had warned the public about since our commander in chief decided that he would invade Iraq. We know we must leave. We know we must pull our troops out, but we all know what will happen to Iraq if we leave: All out civil war with Iran and Syria manipulating the situation as much as they can. And for what? Oil. Halliburton. The ...continue reading