Lloyd Doggett takes the pledge to vote against any bill that does not have a strong public option that is available nationwide, with no triggers, and answerable to Congress and the voters.

By using words like “available from day one,” Snowe is trying to co-opt populist language and employ it in the service of something that means just the opposite. She means “day one” — once the triggers kick in.

She’s embarrassed about her opinion, and is trying to pretend that it’s something it isn’t. Well, she should be.

We’re in the process of updating the Whip Count list with all the videos we’ve put up.

I read this article in The Hill, a congressional newspaper, and a question kept coming back to me. Did Senator Conrad purposefully seek to delay the passage of health care reform with his leading questions of the CBO director, Elemendorf, during the congressional hearing on health care reform? It seems that he did. Here are the [...]

Harman: “I did make that commitment. In writing, in a press release — to vote against a bill that did not have a strong public option in it.”

Here’s Michael Steele, lying about how the public option will allegedly cost Americans so much more than what we have now. Here’s Michele Bachmann, undercutting Steele with what to her and her insurance-company buddies is a scaaaary idea: That the public option will be much cheaper that what we have now — so much so that it, in finest Law of the Marketplace fashion, drives the inferior private insurers out of business. Geezo peezo, Republicans! Can’t you keep your health care lies straight?

Crazy right-winger Michele Bachmann from Minnesota, in her floor speech, issued a litany of talking points against the public option, and said that the public option would be far cheaper than private insurance. And that’s a bad thing? Apparently it’s a bad thing for Michele Bachmann and her legion of crazy fans.  "Approximately 114 million Americans [...]

Patrick Kennedy is in a D+16 district. He’s got bigger problems if he DOESN’T take the pledge.

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.

So, why is the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus ready to go on vacation and allow this bill to be held hostage by the Blue Dogs? Please call her office at 202-225-516, and report back with answers if you can.

Let them know if you can come.  And I want pictures.