(Community Matters) There’s sometimes a fine line between leading by polls and being responsive to voters. I am pleased to see Republicans beating a hasty retreat in their opposition to financial regulatory reform in response to voters’ overwhelming disgust with irresponsible and unaccountable practices by money center & investment banks.
In anticipation of the question about HCR and polls, there are times when our leaders must put doing the right thing ahead of popular sentiments. In the 1960’s this was civil rights legislation. Most recently, health care reform. Why? 1) we were headed to a national, financial train wreck if we did not do anything, 2) insurance companies & healthcare concerns spent over a billion dollars misleading the public on the realities of HCR and in their Congressional influence peddling, 3) a society as wealthy as ours owes some basic, sustainable level of healthcare to all its citizens – a chevy or buick level of care, not cadillac.
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