This is great news…
… for John McCaine!!!!11!!

Neanwhile, please do let us know whenever Eshoo gets around to acknowledging that there’s a problem with her amendment.

*sigh*.

I called Rep Eshoo this morning, and it was useless aside from the staffer promising to pass my comments on.

More info on what I said and what the staffer’s responses were here: http://bdu.livejournal.com/1756118.html

Pretty incredible, Jon. This tells me that all the research and writing Jane has been doing, is 100% on the mark.

I find myself saying quite often, don’t bet against Jane Hamsher, she’s usually about ten steps ahead of the pack.

Unbelievable. Give a big old Republican hand to Anna Eshoo, how does she spin this or does she?

You should crosspost that over to The Seminal, bdu0.

” I guess the only thing truly bipartisan in Washington these days is shilling for powerful industry lobbyists.”

The audacity of hopey-changey @ work.

wondering if Barton will now begin touting it – it’s not like he’s the shy retirin’ type
and even these clowns know they’re gonna need some help promoting it – why, I’m sure all those orgs Anna listed must be chomping at the bit . . .

When I called yesterday I asked to speak to someone regarding health care legislation and Anna’s amendment and got someone. It was enlightening because that person (Ann) knew exactly what to say and how to say it. Try again.

don’t bet against Jane Hamsher

p.s. I’ve said for years that if she played cards, her picture would be posted at the front door of every casino, marked BANNED :D

If the Rs are on board you can bet that loophole is big and wide for the evergreening. Jane has a way of being right.

Does the GOPPER bill actually say, “Die quickly!”

Off topic, i love reading the news from the 23rd about how the T-beggers are acting out at the polls. Apparently the anti-abortion crazies are at the polls instructing folks on where to find Hoffman’s name on the ballot and harrassing people not interested in listening. And, apparently, many are from out of state, not just out of the 23rd. Amazing that the battle zones are in little towns close to where our kids were brought up.

And, I think it can’t be repeated enough…the former GOP in the 23rd opined that “Doug Hoffman lacked the integrity and qualities needed to be elected to anything — let alone Congress.”

Because if there’s one thing we all agree on, it’s that expensive biologic drugs need more protection from competition.

Jane was reporting on Sherrod Brown getting bipartisan support for using Schumer/Waxman biosimilars language in the Senate. Not just the surprising David Vitter, co-president Susan Collins are trying to fix the Eshoo gift to biopharma. Blue Dog Blanche Lincoln was a cosponsor of the original Schumer biosimilars language.

I’ve not had a response from Eshoo’s Senior Field Representative to my email yesterday. 24 hours and counting… Follow up email and phone call tomorrow.

“Republicans thought it was such a great idea that they added it, completely unchanged, to to their alternative bill.”

I can just about hear Boner and Cantor muttering over some flunkie with a word processor, “Hey…use that “copy-paste” deal. I hear it works real good. Them Communist Demos will never catch it…”

More material to line the bird cage

looks like the site has gone rogue – trouble getting in

I am using my RSS Feed/Yahoo

All I can say is shit! Anna is my congresscritter and she has lost my vote by her action. I think she needs to be primaryed out of office. She is a Corporate shill and if her amendment passes many will suffer…

nahant – she used to be mine as well. fyi – this is not her first less than progressive rodeo – I’m of the opinion guys like wmd1961 and thousands like him are still out of work directly due to her, um, assist on HR22 visas and there’s more

A politician that is not a corporate shill is a rare commodity these days, this health care debate really helped to expose our elected officials for what they really are . Bought and paid for by corporate America.

Forget it folks nothing’s gonna change until we do something about the influence big money donors have on our legislative system.

Hey nahant how’s life ?

I haven’t been really happy with her for a while as her history shows she helps big donors(think corporate interests) first and her constituents always second…
It is almost a waste of time calling as
I have never been happy with the answers I get from her staff, which means she is really not listening to us…
As for the Visa crap I am also a victim as I worked IT and we all know how IT has died in the Valley starting in 2001 and it is not any better these days..

Where did you live cbl?… I am in Redwood city

Hey BB life is OK!! How about you??? Any snow yet??

Thank you for your call, and for that report.

Please consider posting it at The Seminal!

I lived in San Mateo County back in the day, interviewed Jackie Speier AND Anna Eshoo in their days running for Board Of Supes for local NPR station I worked for.

Followed them both a bit over the years career wise.

Of the two, Jackie Speier STILL has done more for the comman woman and man than Anna Eshoo has.

Anna Eshoo is a sold out shill for corporate feudalists. I’m glad I never voted for her outside of the Board of Supes race long ago. And now feel bad I DID vote for her then, to kickstart her career.

Sad.

You constituents should really consider banding together to meet with a staffer over Eshoo’s amendment. You’ve got great arguments and backup material, and an in-person visit, even at a district office and not in DeeCee, means A LOT to ‘critters.

I heartily recommend it (and former constituents can sneak in, too, c, because district lines are fluid and you might be her voter again, soon).

I am really disappointed in Anna. I never thought she would turn out like this although she knows a lot of very empowered people.

Palo Alto – mid town, a block off Oregon

I’m told I wouldn’t even recognize Redwood City these days

hey Eshoo Constituents and Bay Area firedogs -

Slinkerwink did some diaries asking Kossacks to look in to FEC and other donor related info – in a contest to identify the worst HCR sell out

Here is the first, where she’s, um, nominated skim through the comments with a ‘Eshoo’ Control F and look at the some of that stuff

And this is the follow up diary from the next night yet more shilly goodness

Redwood city, best climate in the US according to Scientific studies (marquee sign downtown in 1999, still there last time I was there in 2006).

I’m in Ben Lomond. Very different from the Silicon Valley side of the mountains.

cbl2, you had the camera on Friday?

I don’t see Eshoo as a cause of my unemployment, more a misplaced “all the wood behind one arrow” upper management had, even as rank and file was saying x86/Linux is a threat and we need to revive Solaris on x86. I was amazed to see full page ads saying the same thing a year later, ads paid for by customers. They finally got it… and made a few other stupid moves.

no. I wish I’d been there (although I’d probably gone to jail I’m so damn pissed)full disclosure and tmi – a big part of why I’m so p.o.’d is I bought in to her progressive schtick, told my Girl Scouts to look up to her blah blah blah

we live in Central Texas now, north of the Republic of Austin

OT (Austin)

Did you get to see the “Run Zombies” road sign in person? Great prank!

damn that’s funny.

Nice to see the GOP can still wake up in time to plagiarize the bits and pieces they like. Twofer: take credit and slime eshoo in the same intellectually dishonest maneuver.

Have you all heard of turnitin.com?

High schools have students turn in their papers electronically to have it compared to stuff already published to guard against plagiarism. I suggested to someone who worked for the company that they ought to start selling it to congress staffers, esp. when GOP claims “no changes” to FISA law and other crap like that.

“the only thing truly bipartisan in Washington these days is shilling for powerful industry lobbyists”

All the hope that Obama and a democratic majority would lead to true change was just a charade. Elephants and donkeys work for the same corporate sponsored team, they just fight over who has the ball and use that (vote for our party) to keep us common folk apart.

We will NEVER have a representational form of government as it currently is. We will NEVER elect enough ‘good people’ to get a majority of common sense Americans who care about the actual country and it’s people as the system currently is.

It has changed a lot in the 30+ years I have been here. Now there is a move afoot to turn the Cargil salt ponds into more housing for 40K people… Shit if anything the land should be allowed to return to it’s natural state of salt marsh…

Uck, Redwood Shores redux.

More brackish marshland would be good for the bay’s ecology, I thought that was the plan in DiFi’s dealing with Cargill a few years back. Now it’s to be developed? More bait and switch to profit developers.

jeebus, apparently none of them lived there October 17, 1989

l-i-q-u-i-f-a-c-t-i-o-n

l-i-q-u-i-f-a-c-t-i-o-n

Yup just like in Sf where all those houses just collapsed… anything built ot there will sink after a while just like foster city which is below sea level these days…. swim baby Swim…

Huh, it’s been so long since I’ve been a regular commenter here, I didn’t even know that a user-diary system existed! Anyhow, posted here now: http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/12721

The wording in this bill is utterly sensible from a scientific standpoint, in fact it sets the bar fairly low for demonstrating comparability. Personally, I’d make it tougher than this, since there are vastly more unknowns than knowns in this area of clinical research. My experience tells me this wording will allow some medical tragedies that would be prevented by a scientifically more conservative approach.

Further, from my reading, the bill basically codifies what already happens in the small molecule drug arena. Given drug development times for small molecules, there is typically about 12 years exclusivity for any given new drug before a generic can come to market. Under the lax comparability standards described in this ammendment, biologics are easy to reverse engineer, and “bio-”similars” could thus be rapidly brought to market on the very expensive coat tails of the pioneer drug. Would this be allowed in any other technological field?

It seems to me that the issue that most offends Jane and Sherrod is the profit being made on a particular drug and the perception/prediction that pricing would keep the drugs out of patients’ hands. I agree that, under the current reimbursement system, this would be the case. However, that presupposition is in direct contradiction with their other assertions and legislative goals regarding health insurance.

If the reimbursement system is properly re-engineered, there’s no reason that pioneer biologics couldn’t be made more widely available. Under the latter conditions, it seems to me that the only remaining objection would be to the profits garnered for bringing breakthrough drugs to market. This is an entirely distinct argumeent and, IMO, intellectual honesty demands that the two be divorced.

The possibility that ROI for a given class of drugs might be dramatically limited, thereby reducing the incentive for innovation is dismissed out of hand here and elsewhere in the liberal blogosphere. But what if that’s true? Why would investors continue to subsidize the development of breakthrough drugs if only to serve as templates for knockoff Chinese or Indian imitators?

I see alot of knee jerk reactions from the left, where anything proposed by Pharma must be bad. To me that’s intellectual laziness and is disingenuous. Hell, even the most ardent left wingers are loath to full-throatedly criticize certain Pentagon expenditures to this extent, lest they be characterized as troop haters. Where is the comparable restraint regarding one of the last bastions of actual American exceptionalism, biomedical research and drug development?