One is that the means we adopt to extract commitments for the PO apply equally to senators as to representatives. In fact ways need to be found to exert pressure on senators who are particularly obstructive, eg. Nelson, Bayh, Landrieu. In this regard publicising whatever conflicts of interest pertain to each is worthwhile, as a means to exert pressure.

The second is that to exert pressure is our only hope of achieving what we want. Getting convulsed by contortions of parlimentary possiblities gets you nowhere. If you are up front and truthful in exposing the interest that people are protecting you do a double service.

They just reported some new numbers of the folks who support the public option on Hardball.

I think those numbers would be under “Obama too soft on health care reform”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/

52 support
46 no

Not sure where they got these numbers

Was so wonderul that Trumka gave well deserved praise during his rip roaring speech at NN09. That man can tell it like it is

What I mean by exclude is ignore … the clause or language remains in the signed piece of legislation but they choose not to enforce it or whatever else is called for.

We should not worry about the motives of those representatives that oppose the passage of the PO, since their motives don’t matter. However they are not free to act in contravention of what we as the majority of the people want, and feel they can do so with impunity.

What is left for us is to act in a way that will accomplish our ends. The representatives from my district simply will not publicly declare their support of the PO. So we need to extract that commitment from them one way or another. Simple phone calls, although great, don’t seem enough to guarantee anything.

An escalation of approach seems warranted, for instance protests at their office or piercing exposes in local papers as to what interests are determining their opposition to the PO with a show of the number of people that want this measure passed.

My point is that the campaign to further our interests needs to esacalte so as to achieve a tangible commitment for the backing of the PO and to make it plain that not publicly doing so will incur real consequences at the next ballot.

OT/quick request:

Could you re-post a link to Katymine’s toll-free DC switchboard numbers? I think Hoyer’s office(s) need a flood of angry calls from The American People. What an effing wanker. Unless the DC offices are closed over recess, too…

FunnyWheelieDiva

This is how Barack Obama and Dems should be talking.

Words like “stranglehold”.

This is the kind of talk that can break the grip of the teabaggers. Wonkery no. Straight talk, yes.