from normablog: patience too can bend and break.

Some people say "don't murder your unborn children" and I say "don't murder mine,

or my grandchildren's grandchildren,

or yours."

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This wasn't important enough to make it to the house floor when the Democrats had a supermajority in both houses. No, it's not that it was voted down, it's not that it didn't make it out of committee: it's that it emerged from committee intact, and Pelosi just didn't think she had time for it. She tucked it away. She perhaps said "oh, maybe later," and perhaps said "never."

What about your grandchildren's grandchildren? What about all the ways we could protect them without incurring choruses of "cap and tax?"

No one could explain to her - maybe no one tried. But someone in that chain of hopefuls for H.R. 3247 failed and instead cut another strand that tied me to hope for help from our damnable federal government, hope for that change we were supposed to believe in, hope for someone saying "no, you don't have to do it on your own."

Well, I guess we do. So suit up, Rest of America: it's time to save your grandkids' grandkids. We aren't without allies, whether they be local governments, nonprofits, or mindblowingly keen-eyed corporate powers like Google. We can do it, with their help. We'll see if the feds want to hop on the bandwagon but if not, it's time to leave them behind.