Standing strong to keep the choice of a public option in any health care reform that emerges from Congress is a full-time, multi-level job. So, hats off to all of you that have called, written to, blogged about, and asked questions of your US Representatives. And a special ten-gallon hat tip to folks at Blue Jersey, Illinois Progress, Calitics, Ohio Daily, and Buckeye State Blog for their work. We noticed. Roll Call noticed. And, yes, you’re seeing it right, Captain B.J. Honeycutt (Hunnicut? Hunnicutt?) noticed, too:
Well, looks like the debate over that public option thing is over.
“M*A*S*H” actor Mike Farrell — who isn’t a doctor, but played one on TV — weighs in on the health care battle in new television advertisements, arguing that “real health care reform … will not happen without the public option.”
“Now, that’s just a fact,” he says in the ads, produced by progressive groups Brave New Films and Firedoglake. “And it’s only because of the hard work of true grass-roots activists that the public option is still alive.”
Whatever you say, Capt. B.J. Hunnicutt.
The videos will be aired in selected states, with Farrell thanking 11 Democrats who have pledged not to vote for a bill without the public option. . . .
OK, I bet actor and activist Mike Farrell is a wee bit tired of always being tied to a roll he played in the previous millennium, but he was a doctor! On TV! And, most importantly, Mike has been on the front lines of many a progressive fight, the battle for quality affordable health care right up there among them.
Farrell thought it worth his time to thank all of you who are working so hard on behalf of the public option House whip effort—and folks on Capitol Hill took notice. Everybody else can take a little notice, too. Click on through to those state blogs and admire the effort—but just for a moment—then, back to work. . . choppers incoming!
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Sorry to post filth here, but this stuff is making me nauseous.
Faux is attacking the upcoming presidential address to a joint session of Congress on healthcare as propaganda and an abuse of presidential authority.. no surprise there. But I made the mistake of clicking on the comments to their article:
http://www.foxnews.com/politic…../comments/
These blog comments are simply the most putrid, disgusting, insane that I’ve ever seen. This is what we’re debating against.
These blog comments are simply the most putrid, disgusting, insane that I’ve ever seen. This is what who we’re debating against.
“As your attorney, I advise that you begin drinking heavily.”
I made the terrible mistake of turning on Tweety this afternoon. He had some goper from Florida on .. who was saying all the same things you mention. Tweety called him something like an honorable man.
Why I give tweety a chance very few months I will never know.
I second that E motion!!
He totally supports the public option and he screams at birthers and gunners.
btw, I don’t like him either
When I peaked at those comments, I’d say a good 20% of the responders deserved to be hunted down and interrogated by the Secret Service as potential threats to the president. Another 70% were pure sedition. I just looked again and its gotten a little better (some moderates seem to be posting now), but before it was really really sickening. And the frequency of the comments getting posted suggested to me that there were literally tens of thousands of rabid haters following the thread. A comment every second or two. I just don’t understand. Where do they find all of those people? Do they let people in prison surf the internet? ’cause I really really hope that most of these people are safely locked up.
I think it’s pretty clear that only one thing matters to these nuts – he’s AA and that’s it. This is racism in every way. Now the ugly face of it is out in the open and I hope never to hear anyone say again that we’ve solved the problem.
i really thought this was about Blow J*bs and was getting ready to comment – what are the repubs up to now??
who ever said that?
I have read a number of things over the last few years ( sorry don’t remember where) that racism simply wasn’t a problem any more. That AAs had as much opportunity as whites, blah, blah, blah.
whew, well racists like to say that!
Yeah, he’s spastic… one never knows what he’s going to say.
If you think the Faux News comments are bad you need to see the GOP.com blog. They haven’t post any new blog post since the middle of May, but there are like 5 people bantering back and forth in the comments of that May 15th blog post. Sickening!!!
Hell, today’s Athens Banner Herald is just as bad.
WOW.
O/T, but I just finished watching KO tonight (had it “paused” cause I missed the beginning.
My GOD, I haven’t laughed so hard in a long time. That man just showed how fucking way out nuts Glenn Beck really is. And it was K-E-W-L.
Well, it was kewl the way KO showed it. Glenn Beck being totally, out and out far far out of his fucking mind is not kewl. Not kewl at all.
http://www.evolvefish.com/fish…..roLife.gif
He’s a serious ADHD case, i think he might have tourettes syndrome and he’s all over the place, but once in awhile he will play dumb and lead a GOP nut right under an ACME falling bank-safe and thats always enjoyable. I guess thats why they call him tweety.
I hear ya.
Oh boy, Rep. (Anthony??? I think) Weiner might have just shown the progressive’s backbone (or lack thereof) on the RM show.
He said.
Note the last sentence. I don’t think many have been more forceful on single payer and the public option than Weiner. This a sign of the end of the fight?
I just checked, and it is Anthony Weiner, and he is one of the 65 that have pledged to vote no without a “robust” public option. How does pledging to vote no without a public option square with “If he doesn’t then we’ll have to settle for less?”
A chopper is a thingy in Britain. Mike the Cool Person: “Now, guys, brace yourselves, there’s no avoiding this, and I’m not talking about my chopper, we are going to the laundrette!”