Comments on: Boccieri Won’t Say What He Thinks About Bailing Out Insurance Companies

By: Jane Hamsher

Jane Hamsher — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:47:14 +0000

Yeah, pictures!

By: booyah

booyah — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:25:25 +0000

I was so busy leading the rally… I didn’t even think to take pictures… but asked our moveon participants to send me photos… got only one good one… and there was a photo in the paper (back pages…. grrrr).

I’ll try to dig up more… it was tres exciting.

By: Elliott

Elliott — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:52:42 +0000

By: Jane Hamsher

Jane Hamsher — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:51:36 +0000

Thank you. I think you’re right, we need a “healthcare” tag or something that people can access — not sure how to do it.

TriCommittee — three committees marking up the bill. Education & Labor, Ways & Means, Transportation & Commerce. We think it will start on Wednesday but don’t know how long it will go for, could be two weeks.

Got any pictures of the MoveOn rally? You should totally post those on The Seminal and send me a link.

By: Jane Hamsher

Jane Hamsher — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:49:25 +0000

Thanks, I love this project too. Very excited about it and really appreciate your support.

By: booyah

booyah — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:29:06 +0000

Hi Jane… I have a suggestion… your site is the “go-to” place for healthcare updates for me… I also check kos as well and just helped out with filling out the Tricommittee Spreadsheet…

Could you have permanent place for the healthcare posts? One place where all the healthcare updates are kept?

That would really be great. Thanks if you can do that.

Also, could you explain a little bit about the Tricommittee… what they will be doing? I’m inferring that three committees will be marking up the House healthcare legislation. What’s the schedule? How will it work?

And, finally, I’m wondering how the House version and the two Senate versions (assuming they actually COME UP with a version) will be combined… how does that work?

Thanks so much for being the boots on the ground for this movement… I held a moveon rally (about 70 people attended! lots of signs, honking horns, etc) at Sen Bingaman’s office in Santa Fe last week… he says he supports the public option but I have seen no firm details from him. He seems to dance around the issue. But it felt good to call him to task publically with lots o’ other folks.

By: sporkovat

sporkovat — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:25:02 +0000

yes, and those “constituents”, the private insurance companies. are capable of withdrawing support and working for his opponent, and they fork over lots of cash.

the progressive netroots, on the other hand, does not have that much cash, and can be taken for granted as never supporting a party other than the Democrats!!

so, what is a self-interested, devoid of principle Democratic politician to do, hmmmm?

By: ratfood

ratfood — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:12:22 +0000

Boccieri says there’s “a little fear” among his constituents of a government-run plan.

More than a little fear if as I suspect he counts private insurance companies as his “constituents.”

By: fatster

fatster — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:05:08 +0000

Neat interview synopsis with Howard Dean, including (of course) info on the public option, etc.

http://tinyurl.com/mtlv37

By: dakine01

dakine01 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:38:26 +0000

It allows them to pretend to do something so they won’t be tagged as a “do-nothing” Congress.

Then they can take their camapaign contributions and go home.