Comments on: Blanche Lincoln Is Trigger Happy

By: bmull

bmull — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:34:52 +0000

All I care about is that Blanche Lincoln votes for cloture. I mean, Pryor has said he’ll vote for cloture, and Mike Ross is proposing Medicare for all, for crying out loud. Now it’s true none of them is married to a wealthy obstetrician like Lincoln is, but would that make her pull a kamikaze move like filibustering her own party? I don’t think so.

By: debcoop

debcoop — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:16:02 +0000

It may seem counterintuitive, but this actually makes me feel better.

It’s a sign she’s movin’ on down the road….before it was never, now it’s a delayed maybe..but the word public option is in there.

It means she is feeling some pressure. and there may be other things she could comtemplate…like opt in or opt out.

It could mean she would not obstruct enough and would at least vote for cloture.

It’s better than it seems

By: fuckno

fuckno — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:18:11 +0000

Blanche and the rest of the DLC’rs have been given permission by virtue of, what can only be described as, Obama’s silence on the issue.

By: jwill5587

jwill5587 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:58:34 +0000

This doesn’t have anything to do with the article, I just wanted to say how much I love this website. They don’t censor the comments unlike Huffington Post. I only go to HP because they have some good articles but I think AH is more interested in name dropping and rubbing shoulders than taking action. Jane is a true revolutionary like Amy Goodman. Just wanted to get that off my chest. Thoughts?

By: LKN2

LKN2 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:52:41 +0000

That’s like giving a rapist 3 or 4 more years to change his behavior before taking action.

Perhaps the people of this country need the same amount of time to see if they purchase health insurance on their own before we subject everyone to a mandate.

By: tbsa

tbsa — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:50:14 +0000

We all know what “trigger” means and so do they. It’s another word for “kill”. It is a whole exercise in futility.

By: Blub

Blub — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:45:56 +0000

yep. I completely support a trigger. So long as it’s already been triggered ;-)

By: Beerfart Liberal

Beerfart Liberal — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:42:13 +0000

The conditions of a trigger currently exist.

Ah… but we’re making changes, you see? So we gotta give them a chance to work to see if maybe they won’t start to stop those conditions from existing. Somewhat. And if not, maybe then we might want to possibly examine a public option.

By: xargaw

xargaw — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:41:33 +0000

Arkansas is the first state that is going to get one of the Olbermann/Free Clinic health fairs in November. It is really important to get this well publicized and tie the lack of health care access to Lincoln’s taking lobby money and shafting her constituents.

By: Blub

Blub — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:40:07 +0000

“40,000 die under the current system, – a 9/11 every 3 weeks?”

Now it doesn’t look like private pharmas are able to deliver anywhere near the promised inventories of the critical H1N1 vaccine either – the stuff that American pharmas are selling to the government at 4x the price per dose as the European and Chinese versions now getting rolled out to millions in their respective regions. Their superexpensive stuff is stuck in production bottlenecks. Gotta love this country’s healthcare system – fails even for pandemic public health emergencies. The whole rethug argument is predicated on their religious belief that it takes a free and unregulated market to produce and deliver quality care and drugs to everybody – controls on prices will constrain supply and harm people. And yet we can’t get our corrupt medical supply chain to supply vital drugs, even at 4 times the world price. Frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the US pharmas are intentionally withholding stock to create demand. We should just buy the stuff from the Brits. Bah-humbug.