f you don’t want progressives to buckle under pressure from the White House apologists and get railroaded into passing the Senate bill, you better act right now. Because the administration and all the children of Cass Sunstein have way, way more ability to put pressure on them than we do, and unless everyone takes action, they’re gonna jam this shitty bill on all of us.

Call progressive members of Congress and tell them to vote against the Senate bill now.

Well this is just a remarkably stupid move from Senate Democrats. After ruining health care reform and costing themselves a seat, they refuse to promise to start working on a reconciliation sidecar measure that might just make their bill passable in the House. From Politico: Part of the negotiations center on whether Reid can provide [...]

Have you see the new Domino’s Pizza ads? The ones where the Domino’s Pizza chiefs read extremely critical letters and watch brutal focus groups? People say the pizza is awful and tastes like cardboard. The Domino’s Pizza chiefs apologizing and admitting the critics are right, but they conclude with the Domino’s team saying that they [...]

It appears Earl Blumenauer thinks he can make a pledge about something people really care about (a public option), break it, and then scold people into showing up for him because the alternative is worse. But he’s probably not unique.

Call members of Congress and ask them if they intend to stand by their pledge to vote against the Senate bill. Let them know that you don’t think they’re “monsters” for keeping their promises. Let’s see how deep this “Bluemnauer problem” is. Because if they don’t keep that promise, the Senate bill could pass (and despite reports to the contrary, don’t think they’re not thinking about it).

Public option resurrected from near death–thanks to reconciliation. A look at the role health care reform played in the Massachusetts special election. Jane says everyone is Dennis Kucinich now. 13 improvements that can be made to fix the health care bill using reconciliation provide Democrats with four solid benefits.

Today’s reports continue to point to the reconciliation sidecar strategy as the preferred option on Capitol Hill for moving forward with health care reform. The strategy requires the House to pass the Senate bill “as is” only after the Senate has passed  measures with several fixes to the Senate bill that can then pass the [...]

The results in Massachusetts, Arkansas, New York, Ohio and Indiana show that Democrats are probably a lot closer to Dennis Kucinich than they are to the so-called “centrists” like Joe Lieberman whose corporatism has dictated the terms of the Senate health care bill.  Raw Story spoke to Kucinich: The 13-year congressman lamented the lack of [...]

With the loss of their 60th vote in the Senate, Democrats are going to need to find a new way to pass health care reform. The most popular idea is for the House to pass the Senate bill as is with many important “fixes” passed just before or at effectively the exact same moment using [...]

Simple political math. Public option is popular. Individual mandate is not popular. A health care bill without a public option and with an individual mandate is also unpopular. Lanny Davis says the problem is that the bill is not corporatist enough. Official FDL statement on health care reform. Jane begins whipping for the public option [...]

Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) today stated that he is open to the reconciliation sidecar strategy for passing health care reform. This plan would have the House pass the Senate bill as is, with a reconciliation measure to fix the Senate bill effectively being passed at the same time. Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) made clear his [...]