Stop a bad bill

The latest Senate health care bill has no public option. No expansion of Medicare. And it does too little to guarantee that uninsured Americans will actually be able afford the coverage they’ll be required to purchase.

But it’s not too late to fix the bill. And as Joe Lieberman has shown, just one senator willing to stand in the way can force legislation to be changed dramatically.

Senator Bernie Sanders has already made clear that he’s opposed to the legislation in its current form. I just signed a petition urging him and other progressives to block it until it’s fixed. Will you join me?

http://pol.moveon.org/block/?r_by=18358-376629-ff.Krnx&rc=comment_paste

Thanks!

Joe Lieberman’s behavior is so outrageous that even P-SPAN, the puppet news network, is covering it.

Will Senate progressives sit silently by as the public option dies?

The situation in the Senate is grim. Harry Reid has capitulated to Joe Lieberman and announced a deal to remove anything resembling a public option from the health care bill.

Four Senators — Senators Russ Feingold (D-WI), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Roland Burris (D-IL), and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) — have previously said they’d only support a bill with a strong public option.

I have just signed a petition calling on these four progressive Senators to stand up for what they believe in, not stand aside and stay silent as Joe Lieberman and Harry Reid kill the public option.

I hope you do too. Just click the link below.

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/prog_sens_po/?r_by=7049-821991-Po6qaSx&rc=paste1

Blanche Lincoln–DINO

I’m a Democrat and I’m a Republican–Medicare for All

Hold Max Baucus Accountable

DINO 5 vote against Public Option

Baucus, Conrad, Lincoln, Carper and Nelson just voted against the Jay Rockefeller Public Option amendment in the Senate Finance Committee markup.

The next time somebody argues that this sort of nominal democrat needs our support, point to this vote.  Not one dime for these people.

Where’s Obama and his staff?  On their way to Denmark, acting like a big city mayor trying to land the Olympics, rather than going to the wall for his healthcare proposals.

“Stand With Democrats Now or We’ll Find Someone Who Will”

Robert Reich Explains Public Option

Thanks to Toni S.

RIP Ted Kennedy

I have no idea who will take his place.  I don’t mean as Senator from Mass, hopefully, that will be one of my classmates-Mike Capuano or Ed Markey.  No..I mean who will speak for the poor, the oppressed, the sick, the homeless, the undocumented, the immigrant?

Don’t hold your breath for the Blue Dogs and their ilk.  They are bought and paid for by the highest bidder.  Right now its the healthcare industry.  Next time it will be some other corporate interest.

The Repugs are on another planet-Thank you, Barney Frank.  Maybe Barney would be a good Senator.  He would certainly drive the Blue Dogs and their Repug friends crazy.

Maybe Bernie Sanders or Russ Feingold will pick up the mantle of the “Lion of Liberalism”; but they are marginalized and ignored by the corporate media.

I am saddened by the end of an era in which all things seemed possible.  Teddy’s passing leaves us with Blue Dog turncoats and Repug mad hatters in control of the public debate.

Rest well, Teddy.  We will miss you.