Looks like invincible ignorance to this old brat.

He didn’t answer your question because it didn’t make any sense. “Can you make the commitment not to vote against any bill that doesn’t have those ingredients?” What in the hell does that mean? Ask questions in standard English and you might get a response. Btw, if you parse out that question you will find that you asked him to commit to vote against a public option. Smart move, Mr. Triple Negative.

Patrick, this is your dad’s fight of his life. C’mon, man up.

The question was a response to the tactics of the health insurance oligopoly. You’re the one who can’t “parse.”

Read more, post less.

“Can you make the commitment not to vote against any bill that doesn’t have those ingredients?”

That’s not a response to the tactics of the health insurance oligopoly. That’s a question with a triple negative that actually asks Kennedy to vote against a public option.

Grammar more, post less.

Does it hurt to comment something that dumb?

The health insurance oligopoly has three ways to fight the public option.

1. Triggers, not available on day one.
2. Co-ops, not available nationwide.
3. Not accountable to Congress

Whip the Public Option

[…] There are 178 Republicans in the House. A House majority is 218. If all of the Republicans agree to vote against something, as they indicate they will on health care, then any 40 Democrats banding together can control the passage of a bill (218 – 178 = 40).

Stated another way: if 40 Democrats in the House say they will not vote for any health care bill that does not have a strong public plan, then they have the same power that a Ben Nelson or an Evan Bayh has had in the Senate to determine the outcome–when every vote was needed to pass something. Every commitment we get in excess of that 40 makes the commitment even more powerful.

We need to get progressive members of Congress to commit that they will not vote for any bill or conference report that does not have a robust public plan that is:

* available nationwide
* available on day one
* and accountable to Congress and the voters

[…]

Tell your boss that s/he has to hire trolls who aren’t quite so limited in terms of reading comprehension. Thanks for driving traffic, please click through the advertising.

I’m calling Kennedy’s office tomorrow to tell him that I am “reserving the right” to contribute to a primary against him.

I’m 100% in favor of a public option. I’m also 100% in favor of you learning how to read. The interviewer asked a question with convoluted grammar. By wording his question so poorly he is actually asking the congressman to vote against a public option. Why is that so hard for you to understand?

Thanks for confirming you’re a troll. If you were 100% “in favor” of a public option, you wouldn’t care about Mike’s grammar, which is fine btw. You’d be focussed on Kennedy, because he’s NOT 100% in favor of a public option. Kennedy knows what Mike’s asking. You’re the only one pretending not to understand.

With so many highly qualified people out of work, how can the health insurance lobby not find a better troll?

We’re against a health insurance oligopoly that provides no value to patients. Physicians, P.A.’s, nurses, (allied health professionals), hospitals, Big Pharma, and medical device providers all provide measurable, tangible benfit to patients. The health insurance oligopoly socializes losses and privatizes profits. They skim the revenue off those least likely to need health care and push everyone else onto the taxpayers via Medicaid and Medicare. That’s not insurance. That’s a scam. They also off-shore a lot of their work.

The administrative costs of the health insurance oligopoly are around 20% Medicare’s administrative costs are around 3%. The health insurance oligopoly has also skewed health care away from preventitive care, which makes it more expensive in the long run. If you take the health insurance oligopoly out of the supply chain, you can foster meaningful competition between the various stakeholders who deliver benefits to patients.

If you weren’t a troll, you would be thanking Mike for the courage and poise to ask tough questions of our elected representatives. Now grab a copy of Strunk and White’s THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE and learn some grammar.

Jane, you write:

What is this uncontrollable impulse to cower in the wake of a GOP that poses absolutely no threat to them in totally safe districts. I simply do not understand it.

Jane, this is not about parties. IMHO, they are side shows. This is about the oligarchs and plutocrats who use their money and power to control Congress and the Executive Branch.

I hate this crappy game. But until we somehow manage to rid ourselves of all this claptrap, it is the big game in DC.

We know. Jane’s been writing about the corpratists for at least that long.