Strange. Coming from her quarters.
*itch*

That’s the position/argument a Rep was making on The Newshour. Cannot recall his name, claiming we need to go home and talk to “our employers”, the voters, you see. Hear what they say about the bill no one has had time to read, hear their concerns. etc etc etc.

Why does it matter if this is passed before recess?

Would hearing from constituents not influence them to pass single payer?

I don’t get the time issue here.

I think it may give the money time to percolate in their districts.

Ya know, this healthcare reform mess is heading the way of banking reform, energy reform, and the stimulus to create JOBS for americans (yeah, I know, what stimulus).

OT-Why Did Bank Reform Fail? Cuz Bought Out Elected Offals Didn’t Get Pressure From Progs?

Bullshit. It failed, and it’s failing because of bought off elected offals who sold out the country. With or WITHOUT our ‘pressure’.

Only bodies in the street will stop the corporate feudalism that makes us more and more insignificant on a daily baisis.

Without genuine old fashioned peaceful MASS PROTESTS we’ll not get banking reform, econ stimulus for jobs, or REAL reform in healthcare.

I don’t seen no bodies in the streets, and I don’t see no prog blogs talking about it.

Are they afraid of the Homeland Security Department?

The NewsHour did a great job of packing their panel with blue dogs and Republicans, leaving it to Sen. Dodd (alone, all alone) to try to make the case for Obama’s plan (or something like it). I fired off a note of outrage to the NewsHour just now about the stacked nature of the panel and the ineffectuality of Ms. Woodruff in challenging their mendacity. But ho, hum, another day in Our Liberal Media.

Has anyone prepared any sort of list of key congresspeople in terms of the money they’ve gotten from Big Pharma/Big Health Ins Cos? It would be very instructive, I’m sure–well, if you see the contest here as: either congress is for the American People, or it’s for its sugar daddies. there’s no middle ground, I think.

Because her staff want to stop taking calls from constituents and others whom her vote will directly affect. Besides, at home on vacation, she can ignore all but the invited constituents to give her their views, with which she already agrees. All the Beltway Villagers have a mini-Bush inside them.

Typical of Jim Lehrer’s team. He confuses the soft, penny loafered-voice of David Brooks and a lack of shouting for gentlemanly conduct and honest debate. Seems pretty strange for an ex-Marine.

Why does it matter if this is passed before recess?

Cuz the longer this drags out, the more the Insurance companies can pull “Harry and Louise” type ads to try to stop it.

The whole push by the Republicans is to slow things down to kill the legislation.

So yeah, it makes some sense to pass it sooner rather than later.

And why can’t they listen to email, phone calls, etc. etc. NOW?!
FunnyWheelieDiva

The longer this takes, the more money they raise from the health care industry. The more watered down the bill will be and they will get to have it both ways. They will give the industry what they want and they will come out in front of the public and claim reform even though it will be garbage.

They’re gonna lie that their constituents don’t want a full bore public option to compete with the insurance industry. And pass the Co Op on the Senate.

Because they are bought off, all of them.

And they’ll ignore and obfuscate the 76% of the polled public info.

So, either FULL PRESSURE in their offices, and from prog orgs, that will THREATED THEIR REELECTIONS, or, massive bodies in the streets.,

Anything else is a FAIL. It’s happened with the stimulus, bank reform, and energy.

They just are NOT responding to the will of the people, only the will of the dollar and their corp lords.

We are SCREWED until we get this, and DO something about it.

Like threaten their reelections, and peacefully by the tens of millions in the streets, work stoppages, and more.

Pups? Your thoughts? Have we continued to be too timid about it all, despite the prog blogs?

Yes, although I don’t know where the linky is, but Pups in here have posted this kind of list(s).

It’s incredible to view . . . but after all, it’s common knowledge now that the lobbyists are spending $1.4 million a DAY from their corp lords of HC and HC Ins. to buy our elected offals.

So, they are bought. And paid for, all of them. Be it healthcare, energy, or banking/Wall St reform.

And no stimulus for jobs . . . not one phreackin cent for jobs . . . not one PEEP from WH or Congress about a FORCEABLE effort to CREATE jobs for the middle class. Not one peep.

Makes it all pretty clear, don’t it?

/preachingtochoir

John Culberson’s web site, courtesy of a friend.

For a wee chuckle, go to Texas Republican Rep’s web site, and vote in the poll on the lower left to see results.

Because they don’t HAVE to!!!
We The People are really low on their lists of influences.

Hasn’t that been proven, to date?

Basically:

Badda boom, badda bing.

Short answers to simple questions.

Next?!?!!?

I love the disclaimer below the poll. Wonder what the Congressman thinks of the results? May be rethinking his position.

That’s my favorite part! You saw it, too. As my friend said, “Be careful what you ask for, Congressman!”

Lawrence O’Donnell on Countdown (w/Shuster)
Oh…Just because Baucas has taken over a million $$ from the industry and its employees…can’t automatically say there’s a conflict of interest. He was up for re-election, after all. And, and, and, his integrity has never been questioned on this!

Yeah? Never been questioned by whom? And why not?
Fecking beltway insider bubble-heads.
Spit.

FunnyWDiva

76% of the country wants this done. What the fuck more do they need to hear about?

They’ve heard, but they’ve ignored, that’s pretty obvious.

So, only heavy pressure can combat heavy buy offs.

And we ain’t applying it, that heavy pressure.

It’s still too soft. They can continue to ignore us.

We threaten their re-elections by saying we’ll be running someone against them, and we pressure them all with our bodies in the streets, in peaceful mass demonstrations, and work stoppages.

Hit it all in the pocketbook. Get their attention.

Blue Texan is upstairs!
Chris Matthews Forces Birther Congressman to Admit Obama’s a Citizen

Oh, they can. They want more time to listen to the lobbyists.
‘Cause, you know, business is so much more important to the economy than all their employees/customers/taxpayers. [/s]

Not likely. He’s a wingnut.

What a weird place America is. You’d have thought members of the Progressive Caucus would be, you know, progressive, but I suppose it’s like our Labour Party, none of whom has ever laboured or will ever labour.

[way ot, but i just now saw your comment here. interesting. i bought a t-shirt or ball cap or coffee mug or something from the kinky friedman campaign, and it said specifically that my purchase was not to be counted as a donation to the campaign.]

i have to admit, i don’t think the congress critters have been listening to their constituents on this actually. i for one will be glad of the chance to talk to some of them.

otoh, i’m convinced beyond the shadow of a doubt that yes, all the republicans, and very possibly the blue dogs, are salivating at the chance to maybe use this to derail whatever obama wants.

of course, if the dems were afraid of harry and louise, maybe they could have been working to give the voters what the voters want, instead of working to give the voters what the insurance companies want.

you’re right Larue. But where are the bodies? they’re not in the streets. I volunteer again. With all the brilliant progressive minds, we still need an ACTION plan. The alternative is this Amerika permanently. And that ain’t nothin like the old America.

If progressives are smart, they will not buy into the watered-down bills being produced in the different committees. They should stand for Wyden’s version or single payer. Get the Blue Dogs and centrists to take a stand on one side or the other regarding those options. Opposition should mean they get primaried in 2010 on exactly this issue. If Obama had any leadership qualities, he would have made this clear already and that the dates for his arrival in those districts were already penciled in for a real health care reform candidate. Instead, he and Rahm are settling for the piece of sausage approach, that something (and it doesn’t have to be good) comes out of conference so that they can run in 2012 saying they did the best they could and it’ll get fixed in the future. Crisis, as we all know, brings opportunities. The health care reform we want is not going to happen this session, so let’s make it perfectly clear to the voters who the corporate whores and obstructionists are. If the public re-elects them at that point, we deserve the contempt with which our representatives treat us.

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. . .needs to go home and listen to her voters

She’s my rep. I’ll find out where she’ll be a listening. and I’ll ask her

Because all of the people who take to the streets will miss a day at work so they then miss a insurance payment and then they lose what healthcare they do have. See how that works?

It’s called fear and the corporations use it VERY effectively.

The only solution is public finance of elections. Take the special interest money out of politics and “We The People” take back our government. Then we might have a chance to get healthcare that works, and taxes paid by big business, and (here’s one that will get someone killed) Retake control over monitary policy in America from the Fed.

Until politicians stop having to take checks from big business they ARE owned by those who provide the money for re-election.