Rick Scott, the one who’s leading the conservative fight against health care reform, just crowed in an e-mail to his supporters that:

Keep Up the Fight – Victory is in Sight!

Thanks to a collective effort by a loose knit coalition of free market health care advocates, conservative grassroots groups, and some reasonable-minded elected officials, I am very confident, after meetings on the Hill this week, that if Congress does not pass a health care bill with the public option before Labor Day, the public option is dead. While Victory is near, we must not rest. 

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Earlier today, Senate Majority Harry Reid acknowledged that there would be no health care vote in the Senate until the fall. Still, liberal, pro-government health care advocates are intensifying their campaigns and increasing the decibel level of their rhetoric to demonize elected officials who are rightly opposed to the public option and a government take-over of health care. We must meet them head on and continue with ads, news events (particularly in the grassroots), media appearances, etc, to finish off the public option, which is no option at all as it would be devastating to patients, our economy and our health care system.

If you want to read the rest of Rick Scott’s disgusting screed, please read it in full at the link here.  I stopped reading after three paragraphs because it was so reprehensible.  If you want to know more about Rick Scott, he’s known as having perpetuated the biggest $1.7 billion health insurance industry fraud upon Americans. Rick Scott’s organization, Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, is a very well-funded organization, and they’re happy right now about what Senator Reid has said today about delaying the passage of health care reform. 

We need you to keep on fighting back today against the likes of Rick Scott and his cohorts. Will you please help join with the petition telling Congress not to delay the passage of health care reform by going on recess? We now have over 30,000 signatures, and will be delivering the petition later today. Please ask your friends and family to join in as well in this fight!