Comments on: Okay You Influence Peddlers, Listen Up…

By: joanneleon

joanneleon — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:04:05 +0000

Jane,

Links to explain what I was talking about:
http://www.dailykos.com/commen.....462/25#c25
http://www.dailykos.com/tag/Ne.....Healthcare

I have since heard from one of the volunteers who organized Netroots for Health care and as you will see in the first link, they are working to help get more visibility for the various action-oriented blogging activities by the different organizations/groups who are involved in all of this.

By: PaulaT

PaulaT — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:42:15 +0000

The insurance lobby doesn’t have enough jobs for all the Congress-Critters. We just need to keep getting them booted every couple years. Not easy, but at least it helps me to have some hope of making a difference in the face of all that lobbying.

By: klynn

klynn — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:41:33 +0000

We the people can vote in large numbers.

By: darms

darms — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:16:23 +0000

Does $1 from “we the people” speak as loudly & in the same language as $1 from Wellpoint? “We the people” can’t offer jobs to ex-congress critters & their aides…

By: perris

perris — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:08:33 +0000

ya….we’d be considered the largest single contributer but the health sector is acting like a bloc themselves also

By: TomWells

TomWells — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:07:40 +0000

You are great, Jane!!! Slink and Eve also.

All of us who do whatever we can to make the public option happen!

:-) Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: whyknot

whyknot — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:03:40 +0000

Really, the very best thing to come out of all of this I think is the internet has restored democracy and majority rule to the US. Hyperbolic yes, but I truly believe we had very much slipped away over the last 10 years or so. In particular I’m attuned to your ‘we’ll be ready for them next time’ comment. We’d better be – we have to be. If those bastards get another chance to seal themselves and their moneyed interests off from public review and voters, they’ll have learned a few lessons too and everyone else will suffer.

By: lukasiak

lukasiak — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:01:31 +0000

oh, and here’s another graph that shows that the “health” sector has contributed over $20 MILLION so far in this election cycle….

By: Twain

Twain — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:57:30 +0000

It has been a sad lesson for us all. We now know that the congress members do NOT have our best interest at heart, that many, or maybe most, cannot be trusted and that we must not ever again assume anything. We will be ready for them next time.

By: whyknot

whyknot — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:51:57 +0000

That is exactly what I was thinking. It’s a sad sort of victory.