Thanks Jon

I wrote to Menendez that I will work for anyone challenging him in the primaries.

You are welcome.

“Democratic senators Baucus, Menendez, and Carper voted against the amendment. All Republican senators also voted against the amendment.”

One word: Fuckers.

you from NJ? I used to live there. He generally votes the right way. But he’s a hack. Don’t like him.

Wait. Bill “Lost In Space” Nelson did something? And something good ? Well, he sure has my vote next time. Speaking of my senators, Martinez just left and he’s a lobbyist already. Not surprising, I guess.

Hello all. Hey even if you dont like what I have to say, look into
S 1681 and HR 3596 the bill in the house and senate, sponsored by J.Conyors in the house and P. Leahy in the seante, to remove the insurance monopolies’ exemption from anti-trust laws. It would be a GI-NORMOUS reform if passed, in fact if we could only get one reform bill passed, thats probably the one it should be.

Baucus is no surprise, but Menendez & Carper are supposed to be liberals. If Joe Biden had wanted Nelson’s amendment, wouldn’t Carper have voted for it? Since the proposal was supposed to save money, what was the problem with it? It sounds like an amendment even Chuck Grassley & Jon Kyl could love.

The Constant Weader at http://www.RealityChex.com

Don’t get all excited. Ya gotta watch Bamboo Bill like a hawk. One can only hope that the flood of calls and emails scared the staff enough into pushing BB into the right position.

Me likee what you have to say. *g*

Just shows to go one more time. Who owns what senators and congresspersons. You can always tell by the way they vote. It ain’t just the rethugs, corruption is an equal opportunity employer.
Now, please tell me why anyone is surprised at this.
And this is why in the end health care reform will actually enrich the HI industry and make the people spend more out of pocket.

Wouldn’t getting double-paid for a single prescription qualify as fraud?

Wouldn’t that make them ineligible for government contracts under the “Defund ACORN” bill?

Just sayin’…

LOL thanks.im looking for a link…….lookin….ok
here: http://ga3.org/campaign/hcr_an…..cantitrust

EEEEK.
Let me know if that works

Good point! I’ve already written to Kerry and my other Congresscritter, John Olver.

The two industries exempt from federal antitrust laws are, so far as I know, insurance and baseball. As if healthcare is a game.

Drat. This is a reply to solerso @ 7.

It’s bemused me to hear Obama say that we need some competition in health insurance without mentioning why we have next to none.

Not too much competition, though.

Well, that clearly separates the Dems from the DINO’s.

Amendment failed.

I want to scream whenever I hear a “pundit” say, “but the Democrats control the Senate.” “Control,” my a__!

Blue Texan’s regularly scheduled post is up a little late, but better than never, as they say: “Rich Lowry Suddenly in Favor of Criticizing American Presidents on Foreign Soil”

It workee.

Yeah i once said on here rahm and the repubs arent enemies they are rivals and the response was ? huh? wha? does that mean? it meeans that they both serve the same cause, milking the capitalist, coporate cash cow. They all, dems and repubs, are two different teams in the same league

So all Republicans and a few Democrats voted to continue socking seniors with high prescription drug prices?

Shit, all the pundits are saying the Dems will now have 60 in the Senate. No, morons, Short Ride is not a Dem and won’t vote with the Dems on health care.

An “honest politician” is one who stays bought. And my how conservatives admire honesty.

am willing to bet he knew the vote count going in, just like all those HR676 roaches that scattered when Weiner turned the light on

Another sad day for New Jersey in their junior Senator Robert Menendez.

This Liberal Dem from Delaware despises Tom “Blue Dog” Carper. He’s so deep in the pocket of Big Pharma all he can see is lint. And in the understatement of the year: Ton Carper just don’t get it. Negotiating drug prices is job #1 to save money and every other country do’s it and rightly so.

We might have 60 votes but that doesn’t mean we can do whatever we want, clearly.

I like how the media trumped this up constantly especially MSNBC which made it seem like hollow ground, while a few print media types tried to keep the rhetoric grounded in reality.

Its hopeless, we’ll get watered down reform and be on the hook for the cost. We aren’t marching in the streets because its hard to get excited about a compromise position such as the “Public Option”, “Robust” or “Weak”.

I get tired of hearing -

“Fixing Health Care is complex because its 1/6th of the US Economy”

John Berwick – Political Correspondent from DW-TV stated that the EU is coming to the G20 summit with both barrels loaded, but seems UK is reluctant to do anything (Sound familiar?). He continued to say that “When the Financial Sector is 40% of the US Economy, who wants to be the one that clips the wings of the Goose that lays the Golden Eggs??”

I’ve try to understand it, I can’t anymore, it just flat makes no sense at all.

Baucus, Menendez and Carper – the A-holes voting against closing the D-hole.

My guess is they may have been joined by Lincoln and Conrad, who initially “passed”, if the vote looked like it were closer.

Europe and BRIC will begin a distancing of their economies from the US if the US does not take steps to insulate the global economy from the risks of the financial casino, and that will end with the dollar losing its role as dominant global exchange and reserve currency. Then, the financial sector will be stranded, perhaps remaining at 40% of the economy if for no other reason than financialization sucked the capital away from the productive economy while outsourcing the rest. We’ll need to begin making quality products that people want instead of feeding off of economic fantasy and paying everyday low prices for cheap crap.

The best government money can buy!

Our govt & media often criticize & look down upon other countries’ “corruption”, as if it is a failing of that country’s people. We have corruption for which we use euphemisms – donations, campaign finance, corporations’ constitutional rights as “persons”, gifts, lobbying, influence.

The doughnut hole is a serious issue for millions of Americans. I remember my late father’s worrying about it when he entered the doughnut hole & going over the numbers with him. After Part D passed, the pharma companies significantly raised the prices of the drugs he was taking. I would love to see any administration force the pharma companies to sacrifice some profit, or even to get them to stop advertising on tv. But I won’t hold my breath.

Welcome to a failed state.

Yes it was obvious that Kent Conrad (the guy who wants to know what everything costs) and Blanche Lincoln (up for re-election) would have voted to keep the PhRMA deal if their votes were needed.

It was as sick a display of public corruption as I’ve seen in a long time.

I live in NJ and will call Menendez to ask him if he could give me the total amount of money he’s received from PhRMA. I’ll also let him know that I’m going to pass this information to Jane Hamsher so that she can mention it on Rachel Maddow’s show the next time she’s on. I’ll also call every newspaper in NJ and tell them too!

I actually know Bill Nelson and he is a pretty good guy. He is not a real left wing liberal but more of a centrist, that is how he got elected.

At this point it appears to me that the Democrats have learned well from the Republicans how to form a circular firing squad. Both parties have serious credibility problems with the American people. The only thing that they both focus their full attention upon is getting re-elected.

What are you saying(?), that we’re all Hondurans now? Heh. Sigh.