>>Sen Reid, pull out all stops to make Democrats stand together against GOP filibuster of the public option. If some Dems need money for their campaign coffers, instead of groveling for cash from health and drug companies, tell them to ASK US, their constituents. We are willing to compete with the commercial health industry to keep our Senators honest. We are the ‘real’ public option!

Growing up in Searchlight, my mother always had on our wall a small pillow case — royal blue with gold fringe, with the words, we can, we will, we must. And the name on the bottom in large gold letters — Franklin Delano Roosevelt. President Roosevelt was the closest we had to a worshipful figure as I grew up.
For my economically challenged parents, even though a man of great wealth and privilege, Roosevelt represented them. He fought for the workers of America. President Roosevelt is the basis of my political direction. Social security is the most successful social program in the history of the world. A government program that helps the old, the handicapped, widows and orphans.
The Works Progress Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps programs that put hundreds of thousands of unemployed people to work. Not handouts, but jobs.
Roosevelt tackled our greatest economic crisis with the 3 R’s: relief, recovery and reform. And let’s not forget — he was commander-in-chief of the greatest military ever assembled at a time of great crisis in the world.”

Harry Reid In His own Words…Street Prophets.(A Daily Kos Community)

This article really should be read in its entirety-LOTS of info I didn’t know before about Reid…but this much I do know-Mr.Reid,you are no Franklin Roosevelt

According to the Times, in order to appeal to Maine Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe “as well as to centrist Democrats like Senators Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Mary L. Landrieu of Louisiana,” Reid’s effort to reconcile competing health care reform proposals “would not include a proposal for a government-run insurance plan, or public option, despite the clamoring of liberals who support it, senior Democratic Senate aides said.” (emphasis added)