Comments on: Jim Cooper, Avowed Supporter of Public Option, to Move to Stall Progress Toward Healthcare Reform

By: MarkH

MarkH — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:07:22 +0000

I think the politics (polling) on this will bring them back on track. Besides, what other ideas do they have which is as good as some kind of public option? If you don’t have a better alternative, then what right do you have to stall?

I say the public option should NOT be a government-run plan, but subsidies to enable more people to get insured via the Exchange.

By: hackworth1

hackworth1 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:17:18 +0000

Daschle and his trophy wife have made a fortune as lobbyists for the Airline Industry. Now Dash is working hard to protect the Insurance Industry. Say what you want about Daschle, but he is no fool when it comes to lining his own pockets.

He would be doing us all a tremendous favor if he would just go away and STFU. Daschle’s posturing – representing the common citizen as a supposed Blue Collar Democratic type – in a coalition with that Republican asshole Bob Dole – serve to clandestinely undermine any plan that might benefit the public.

By: foothillsmike

foothillsmike — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:59:46 +0000

To bad that our health care system has not yet reached the point where they can perform spinal transplants.

By: Petrocelli

Petrocelli — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:54:02 +0000

I’d like to step away from my usually positive persona to say what a f*ckin’ douchebag Tom Daschle is !

Not that I’m surprised, more like he just does not understand the error of his ways …

By: Sufilizard2

Sufilizard2 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:52:53 +0000

His name should be displayed prominently in a website to show all the whores in Congress and in this administration.

Is is, see www.congress.gov

By: bilejones

bilejones — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:50:56 +0000

http://www.opensecrets.org/pol.....038;type=I

By: jimbo

jimbo — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:44:11 +0000

Cooper is a whore. His name should be displayed prominently in a website to show all the whores in Congress and in this administration.

By: selise

selise — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:42:08 +0000

it’s worse than that. from 2006:

david sirota: News Flash - America Wants a Single-Payer Health Care System

Kevin Drum at the Washington Monthly takes the DLC to task for - shocker - not supporting the concept of a single-payer, government-sponsored health care system in America. Drum argues that Democrats have lacked the courage to stand up for such a proposal. He’s probably right - they fear the wrath of the health insurance companies. But make no mistake about it - the public would be with Democrats if they had the guts to push single-payer. As an ABC News/Washington Post poll showed in 2003, the majority of Americans support a single-payer, government-sponsored health care system, even when they hear the right-wing’s alarmist arguments.

my bolds

By: foothillsmike

foothillsmike — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:40:25 +0000

Polls indicate that 76% want a public option. I wonder how these clowns reconcile their ravings about democracy and then oppose a public option.

By: Votus

Votus — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:35:30 +0000

Nevermind–I found it under totals by industry at open secrets.