absolutely love her response to POTUS – calling now

Nancy Pelosi just stated that the Public Option IS still Alive and is an essential part of the reform, or words to that effect! Good news at last after all this doom and gloom about no public option.
Also she said triggers were a sign that the Health Care companies have succeed in their efforts to stop reform…

Watch Jane Kidd, Head of the Democratic Party in Georgia hand 40,000 signatures to Issackson.

just now watched her purse her lips when Reid said “PO. . .or something like it”

priceless

Thanks for your tireless work on this Jane.

Pelosi also said that the big insurance companies should prefer having a public option now, because what they would compete with AFTER a trigger would be more formidable. (Something like that.)

Yes THANK YOU all who are working so hard! You are making history.

Just got off the phone with her DC office.

It looks as though people have watched the circus, the fiasco, the disgrace in many instances on the right, and that has driven them even further to examine how important this public option is to real health care reform.

Yeah we can’t have Dems backing down to screaming thugs! If you have a question fine ask I have several but trying to stop me and other voters from asking our Congresspeople questions is an infringement on my Rights to Free Speech!

Ditto. It may be repetitive to say this, but you and the folks you’re cooperating with seem to be the only force pushing Congress in the right direction.

Finally, onward and upward….free Huey!!!!!

The White House is already twisting the arms of weak-willed members to get them to abandon the commitments they made to vote against any bill that does not have a robust public option (successfully in the case of Sam Farr and Michael Capuano this morning)

Count on Rahm to retreat when we are getting closer to victory. Authoritarians might act like immoral Machiavelli’s but aside from backstabbing or bullying they never seem willing to make a stand on Principles even if the crowd is behind them.
Not when it means standing against Corporate cash. John Dean’s take on Rahm would be interesting. A moral Machiavelli with the people’s interest at heart is what we need has there ever been such an animal?
Maybe Julius Caesar?

We need to be clear that a trigger is simply a delay tactic which is the same as denial. It’s a sham, a con game. The insurers are not going to reform themselves because something called a public option might kick in sometime down the road. They don’t work that way. They are interested in this quarter’s profits. Period. When and if a public option is about to be triggered, they’ll just come up with another scheme, and we can’t allow delay. Health care delayed is health care denied. With delay, the sick get sicker, the sick become more expensive to treat, the sick suffer and die. I’ve worked in health care, so it’s hard for me to support turning down any plan that might help a few more people, even if it further enriches the corporations, but there is more harm to more people with a trigger. Sen. Snowe and friends will be sure that trigger will be jammed anyway. Count on it. Some people may remember that they tried this with Civil Rights – don’t rush into it, it’s too much too soon, take baby steps, the country isn’t ready for it. The response to that was “We’ve waited 100 years!” We’ve already waited too long.

Has anyone considered what would happen if several Gopers in the House voted with the blue dogs to pass a bill without the PO? We’d need more than 40 on our side to fight off such a trick.

Napolean? Not coming up with any positive examples…

thanks Boo

call her Firedogs !

it was obvious from her staff that they aren’t used to getting positive feedback on this fight – please let her know you appreciate her pledge

Count on Rahm to retreat when we are getting closer to victory

and he wont just bail on his current allies, he will feed them to the wolves – a fact all of us out here know, but completely lost on Blue Dogs and other squishy critters

I’m not coming up with much either maybe Peter the Great but he was more direct less Machiavelli from what I’ve read. Can a real Machiavelli type be a Great Progressive Leader? Why can’t we as a society produce an effective Machiavelli Rahm is obvious Karl Rove never got any Bush program to work once passed.
I’m starting to wonder how long it has been since we had a Machiavelli type who could govern effectively?

True Rahm will sell the Blue Dogs out first chance he gets but then again the Blue Dogs would do the same to him. We need leaders willing to stand with a 72% majority for the people not the corporations.

triggers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..r_embedded

just called
told staffer….she had the courage of a Lioness protecting
her cubs

they liked it

Thanks. Great video!

Good for you! I just made a call too – thanks for the inspiration.

Ylarke is someone to watch, I think she’s going places, great lady–truly.

.she had the courage of a Lioness protecting
her cubs

they liked it

Great Sound byte I hope she credits you if she uses it in a Campaign ad. The Dems should be mining us for free talking points we are much better than Rahm or any DC Dem paid consultant…that and we’re free:)

Triggers and co-ops are obvious problems, but so is the fact that even our staunchest allies are flinching from the FDL principle “available to all Americans.” If it’s only available to the currently uninsured, it’s going to fail, and a lot of pledgers glide right over that one, probably because none of the House bills has that in it and they will have to vote to amend on the floor.

Don’t flinch from that question, and start pressing folks when they pledge.

you mighty welcome

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..38;index=0

I think that standing Tall on HealthCare and Ending the Wars will be the way the new House and Senate Leadership proves themselves. Going along to get along when the public is to the Left of the Politicians and the Main Stream Media won’t work anymore compromise should be based on the REAL strength of both parties not some GOP fantasy that they are equal in numbers and power and can force us to compromise.

yup,whata team…….g

Wouldn’t it be awful if health care failed because progressives had to have a public option. After muting republicans.

WHOA WHOA WHOA. im checking act blue, to see who needs another money shot,(yeah i know) and JESUS KEE RIST, has anyone seen how much chellie pingree, Me. and Donna edwards Md. have raised pingree over 3/4 of a million, edwards over 1/2 a million:

http://www.actblue.com/page/healthcareheroes

does that seem weird to anyone else? when grijalva is in the 30 – 40 range and barney frank is in the 40 -50 range????? isnt edwards one of the ones who backslid a week or two ago? and pingree is of course, in snowes’ distric, and Me is a center of insurance industry lobbying….whats up?

wouldnt it be worse if american middle and working class people had to pay for an insurance industry bailout, out of their own after tax money, cause blue dogs and the WH had to have lobbyist kickbacks? wouldnt that really suck a whole lot worse?

jrb is one of the frightened…there is no reasoning with the chickenshits trying to hide amidst the robes of the powerful…

theres nothing to be frightened of. what did the WH house say? wasnt it “thats democracy for ya”…we have nothing to lose unless we dont engage the system for everything its worth, not doing whats right, and as much of it as we can squeeze into a day, that the only thing to be frightened of.

and thats probably plan c. we can bet that republicans are really into the bacus plan and that their insurance cartel handlers are pushing them to do it…thats what snowe is, a repub who can do the job and take the heat..except you’ll notice that NOT ONE SINGLE FUCKING REPUBLICAN, HAS OPENED THEIR GAPING CAKE HOLE TO SAY ANYTHING AGAINST SNOWE, RIGHT? becuase they are in on it.

Not to be alarmist but, for a little alarmism im going to repost this. someone reassure me that im paranoid please.

WHOA WHOA WHOA. im checking act blue, to see who needs another money shot,(yeah i know) and JESUS KEE RIST, has anyone seen how much chellie pingree, Me. and Donna edwards Md. have raised pingree over 3/4 of a million, edwards over 1/2 a million:

http://www.actblue.com/page/healthcareheroes

does that seem weird to anyone else? when grijalva is in the 30 – 40 range and barney frank is in the 40 -50 range????? isnt edwards one of the ones who backslid a week or two ago? and pingree is of course, in snowes’ distric, and Me is a center of insurance industry lobbying….whats up?

1993 health care failed because moderate democrats said they wouldn’t vote for it. Now you have progressive democrats saying the same thing. You tough guys are going to lose it and have nothing.

then at least we wont be any worse off than we are now, which wouldnt be the case if we have to eat baucus’ shit sandwich. BTW i remember 93 too, as i recall we only had the house, not the senate, clinton started off with gays in the service and a gun ban, and the “vast right wing conspiracy” was still basically a big secret. come home from 93, or at least if your going to live in the past pick something inspiring, like nov8 1960, or woodstock 1969, or the passage of Social security or sumthin!

wrong 1993 senate dem. 57 rep.43. I don’t think you give a shit

woops i got it backwards.

“I don’t think you give a shit”

and why didnt you respond to the rest of my comment, the part you cant nit pick? clinton fucked up royally, tactically, and was a supply sider anyway. it can be argued (and has been) that clinton lost becuase he was merely a weak republican. only you – rahm – and lawrence odonnell belive 93 has anything to do with 09

I really don’t think the loss of Congress in 94 had much to do with health care at all.

It was all about the raising taxes thing (even though look what good that did throughout the 90’s).

Americans (even “liberals”) aren’t too bright about the word taxes. Just look at the most progressive state in the country, California.

It’s not a bad idea to forward the video to your friends… especially if you live in Brooklyn, and have them give her a call!
That’s what I’m going to do.
Thanks for the post Ms. Hamsher.