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“Am I angry that the public option appears to have been dropped? Of course I’m angry about that,” he said. “Was I for the Medicare buy-in? Of course I was…So what do I do? do I take my football and run home and sulk?”
No, you’re going to kick it!
Jello Jay Rockefeller Will Kick that LieberCare Football |
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| By: Michael Whitney Wednesday December 16, 2009 1:32 pm | |
A telling excerpt from Jello Jay Rockefeller’s rant against Howard Dean on MSNBC this afternoon as transcribed by Greg Sargent:
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This moving the ball forward one step at a time was the premise behind settling for the 65 yr old age limit when Medicare was first passed in the sixties. Every years the age limit would be lowered until everybody was covered.
How’d that work for us, Jay & CO?
As for the half a loaf metaphor, its those little spores of botulism you got to watch out for…
Stop the bs and just do it.
Im sure the WH has sent you out to toe the party line, but run, Jay, run. The democratic base isnt buying what the WH is trying like hell to sell. We wont buy it, Jay,not this time, not now, no.
Dont sell out to the Obama WH, Sen Rockefeller. Stay true to your principles. You know this is a very bad bill. And, yes, the bad is the enemy of the good.