Jane, are you sure that the lines for GOP and Ind haven’t been interchanged?

I posted this downstairs also: My Bluedog Dem, Boswell has called for a Public Option. Whoo Hoo! I guess calls to his office has paid off.

Its about time that these politicians start to figure out, they work for us not for themselves!

So, when does this translate into his overall approval rating? I’d say fairly soon, if he keeps going where he’s going…

thank you!

fyi – Boswell’s district is PVI D+1 which makes him a prime arm twisting target – and that is just getting under way – y’all are gonna have to keep after him and then after him some more – maybe someone wants to send his office the Act Blue page :D

Overall approval at 47%. Not looking good:

Jim Cooper
FAV UNFAV NO OPINION
ALL 47 41 12
MEN 50 38 12
WOMEN 44 44 12
DEMOCRATS 57 33 10
REPUBLICANS 29 57 14
INDEPENDENTS 45 42 13
18-29 48 39 13
30-44 46 42 12
45-59 48 40 12
60+ 46 43 11

Cooper, if he wants to return to Congress after the next election cycle, must decide whether he wants to support the insurance companies or go back home to his distrist, losing his coveted status as a member of Congress. The pressure is on and the way he votes will reveal who his masters are: his constituents or the corporatists.

Looks like in the public option poll the results for GOP’s and Indys were reversed. Nice to see some of these polls coming out in strong favor of the PO. Baucus is getting quite a bit of pressure from Montana Dems as well. Once these folks return to DC maybe we’ll see a few changes, even though a lot of punditos are still calling the PO dead. I keep calling, emailing, faxing Feinstein, get same response each time, she’s weighing all the options. Going to a Boxer HQ in San Bernardino next week for a show of support for PO.
Don’t let up now, we’re running out of time, keep the pressure on.

Yeah, I went back to an email and they were reversed, which as you note is probably correct, so I sent an email asking for confirmation but changed them in the mean time.

Morning, Jane. Looks as if Blanche Lincoln may get a challenge in the primary. These folks better start listening to the folks back home. And Reid’s in trouble. – YEAH!

How does a guy like Cooper sleep at night or shave in the morning?

Heh, looks like it doesn’t it???

Shows the asshole is more like a Rethug than a D, and everyone in the district knows it. And among ALL it’s two to one disapprove, yet it doesn’t matter. Shows who calls the shots doens’t it?? Constituents mean nothing, corporate puppet masters everything.

Asshole.

EDIT: Oh, I thought you were commenting on the 68 approval by the GOP versus 26 Ind. Didn’t know you were commenting on the public option part. My bad.

Cooper better wake up or he will be gone. Great post, Jane, and magnificent work leading the forces for real change.

I feel hatred for him in my liberal gut.

and apparently, so do many in his district…

Excellent work Jane! We’re going to crush all of these duplicious bastards! Who’s next?

is anyone running ads against cooper in his district? If not, wouldn’t that be a much better use of funds than “thanking” wishy-washy Dems like Donna Edwards?

there is a number that will matter to Cooper – 36% ‘Re Elect’ – that is some weak ass sh*

Wow! Fantastic news. Now if Jim Cooper were to come to the table, that would be progress.

Hey jane, I just posted this downstairs and it is excellant from thom hartmann;

Dear President Obama,
I understand you’re thinking of dumping your “public option” because of all the demagoguery by Sarah Palin and Dick Armey and Newt Gingrich and their crowd on right-wing radio and Fox. Fine. Good idea, in fact.

Instead, let’s make it simple. Please let us buy into Medicare.

It would be so easy. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel with this so-called “public option” that’s a whole new program from the ground up. Medicare already exists. It works. Some people will like it, others won’t – just like the Post Office versus FedEx analogy you’re so comfortable with.

Just pass a simple bill – it could probably be just a few lines, like when Medicare was expanded to include disabled people – that says that any American citizen can buy into the program at a rate to be set by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) which reflects the actual cost for us to buy into it.

So it’s revenue neutral!

I believe the bill that established the canadian healthcare system was 11 pages long. something like that.

amazing how simple this is, simply amazing, how many words did it take to expand disabled into medicare?

A well-funded organization like HCAN could do a media buy large enough to be meaningful in his district. They’re received $45 million for just that purpose. We don’t have that kind of money. If you want to ask why they are not doing so, that’s a fair question.

But Cooper will never be part of a block to keep an insurance industry bailout from happening, which is the goal of our project. And Donna Edwards now has 5000 donors asking what she intends to do on a conference bill.

I think it was an excellent use of resources.

It may be that the larger the change, the simpler the language can be. Alternatively…

Funny that. HR676 is 11 pages long…

:)

Great news!

Jim Cooper is not going to change his mind. He might put his next job in jeopardy. You know, the one working for the health care industry to help actively kill Tennessee citizens.

A well-funded organization like HCAN could do a media buy large enough to be meaningful in his district. They’re received $45 million for just that purpose. We don’t have that kind of money. If you want to ask why they are not doing so, that’s a fair question.
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We know why they aren’t doing it. The sole purpose of HCAN was to keep medicare-for-all/single payer “off the table” (which they succeeded in doing to the point where the “A-List access” bloggers all bought into their multi-million dollar myth-making), one really can’t expect (let alone rely on) them to go after a Jim Cooper.
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Can you explain where these donations go and what they are used for …. and are the linked to policy positions so that the critter who gets them sees them as a support/reward for doing the right thing?

Can we recruit a primary opponent to knock this guy off? Or to force him to shift left, or both?

what value does the Health Insurance industry add to the US economy? They don’t build or design anything, the don’t add to scientific understanding or improve transportation or telecommunication.

what am I missing? What does the Health Insurance industry add to the US economy?

What does the Health Insurance industry add to the US economy?

Several multi-millionaire CEO’s that contribute to politicians.

yeah.. I think that we’ll need to start developing explicit strategies to develop credible primary threats against specific individuals as part of our healthcare initiative.

….either that or develop a reform program that just outright cuts out the southeast and the plains Dead Zone states ;-P. Healthcare for all, ‘cept in Tennessee, Texas and South Carolina, or something like that.

Must read:

4. Cost controls stifle innovation.

False. The United States is home to groundbreaking medical research, but so are other countries with much lower cost structures. Any American who’s had a hip or knee replacement is standing on French innovation. Deep-brain stimulation to treat depression is a Canadian breakthrough. Many of the wonder drugs promoted endlessly on American television, including Viagra, come from British, Swiss or Japanese labs.

Overseas, strict cost controls actually drive innovation. In the United States, an MRI scan of the neck region costs about $1,500. In Japan, the identical scan costs $98. Under the pressure of cost controls, Japanese researchers found ways to perform the same diagnostic technique for one-fifteenth the American price. (And Japanese labs still make a profit.)

another example would be my litle 2 litre ecotech engine, this only exists because of regulations, it’s a tiny 4 cylendar engine that gets more horsepower and torque with more reliability then the super cars of the 60’s and 70’s

$108 (European bank bailout) ain’t even “walking around” money. Was it more like billions, with a “B”? Thanks for the story, though.

I called Cooper’s DC office (202-225-4311) and said that while I am not a constituent, his vote affects me. I told his aide that if Cooper sides with the insurance industry rather than the majority of his constituents who want a single payer system, I will contribute to anyone who challenges him in a primary.

The aide thanked me for my call.