cynthia, I did not even know about this gathering and I live on long island, I would have surely been in attendance

Follow up, giving people real action to take is key to progress.

912? What would they write about? Cut spending? Yea right, like they have any ideas for spending cuts beyond don’t help people that aren’t like me.

Wonderful Cynthia, thank you… and it looks like everyone could spell “health” correctly.

Thank you for this.
Remember, we outnumber them 3 to 1.

But where are the teeVee cameras?

oh yeah, right, this isn’t an astroturf rally

What happened to Looseheadprop?

Thanks Cynthia. Nice story.

I’m still smarting after learning that Obama is diminishing the public option. WTH? How do we keep the insurance companies “honest” now? What happened during the time between his speech and now?

It’s really disappointing. I’m feeling…what’s the word…hope-less.

It is unfortunate that the MSM does not cover a rally such as this. Perhaps there are more of the same throughout the country but unless we discover them through blogs such as this, how would we know. Pity.

She’s busy with regular non-blog life, but she’s fine. I admit I miss her.

Obama will kill the public option at his own peril. If he cannot lead his own party with a vast majority, he is not worth electing again.

You need to have a lot of spirit to keep fighting for democracy. It seems we are losing ground day by day and forced to have this corporate sh8t shoved done our thoughts constantly with no respite.

The political system does not respond to the people but to capital – special interests time and time and time again. There is criminal behavior and no accountability time and time again. There is corruption and scandal and it takes no one down, it only emboldens them.

This is a sick and depressing country. When looks at the racists, illiterate nut cases all around, it makes one want to just leave.

So, let’s see. The TEA baggers, feel “taxed enough already”. Is that their slogan? And they are just so indignant about the TARP bill especially, which they don’t have a monopoly on, that concern, they have very distressed people on the left, in the blue state seats, too, watching unhappily.

But up until Obama was given the reins, they thought this government was in trustworthy hands? And they think we have “trouble in Riverside” suddenly?????? They can’t be that profoundly imbecilic, can they? They stop at Obama and the Dem Congress with their OUTRAGE? Talk about short-term-blame memory. Let’s see. T-E-A. TRUTH-EVADING-AMNESIA Parties? Could we spread that around?

These righteous faux patriots are protesting and going to the faux astro-turfed mattresses against the Dems and Obama administration as if Obama and his administration and his Congress drove this country off the cliff in terms of corruption and corporately exploitive warfare?

Now did these supposed patriots protest the horrifying gutting of our constitution and tax dollar treasuries by the Bush administration? Because if they did, they have my respect. But “I don’t recall,” in the immortal words of Alberto. If they didn’t I wonder how they can congregate in public with their indignation. We should be indignant at them for handing Bushco two terms of corruption. We should levy a “stupidity and horrifying degree of damage” tax on them, speaking of taxed enough already. A stupidity tax. Hypocrisy tax? (Their support gave Bush elections close enough to be stolen, more accurately.)

I wonder how they can actually look themselves in the mirror in the mornings for being the ENABLERS who have damaged our country by allowing the vandals to run the government thanks to their blind and jingoist, lazy, religion-seduced cronyism.

They seem the Sons and Daughters of Hypocrisy not worthy to emulate the original Sons and Daughters of Liberty. WHERE IS OUR APOLOGY FROM THEM???????

Just as Kerry was the true war hero, they have their swift faux boats and take on the shadow identity of what they so aren’t.

from the organizers website:

Yes We Can! Long Island – Healthcare Committee Mission Statement:

The mission of the Yes We Can! Long Island Healthcare Committee is to promote the general welfare of all. The committee believes that:

1. Access to affordable, quality healthcare is a right
2. Single Payer Plan, is the optimal solution for achieving this goal in the most cost effective manner.

emphases mine.

Thanks for helping to promote the authentic Single Payer viewpoint, both on LI and at FDL.

Pay a visit to letsgetitdone’s diary at:

http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/8317

and say hi to the rest of the SP contingent.

Soccer moms were only important during the Bush years.

trouble in Riverside

should read

“Trouble in River City”

Cynthia, I meant to “celebrate” the real patriots above before venting on the “patriot-image” kidnappers, the tea baggers. Sorry. Thanks for this. Libby

Thanks for this wonderful report and the truths you tell about those who attended. Hope this event generates some real grassroots after-action as well.

Lovely pictures, beautiful Americans, wholesome caring thoughts.

Please send her a hello. I know a number of us have been wondering how LHP is doing.

She was on my mind as I read through Christy’s last post.

The tea baggers (TBs) are bent out of shape by a bunch of things, some real, but mostly imaginary. One thing they now are upset about, but didn’t care about when Bush was doing it, is spending more money than comes in from taxes, i.e., deficit spending. (Remember that GWB put two wars and a tax cut on the US’s credit card.) Their “solution” to the deficit is to reduce spending, not increase taxes. As one of Reagan’s economics people pointed out the other day, they would have to eliminate ALL discretionary spending to reduce the deficit. That means no federal money spent for anything except interest on the debt, SS, Medicare and Medicaid. I wonder if the TB’s understand what they would lose if that happened.

The Congress is back in session and doing the dirty work for the Medical Industrial Complex.

mcconnell $3.3M, hatch $2.9M, baucus $2.8M, grassley $2.7M,
lieberman $2.6M, burr $2.4M, ensign $2.4M, cornyn $2.2M, kyl $2.1M,
conrad $2.1M, cantor $1.8M boehner $1.7M, coburn $1.2M, j wilson 800K
were paid by the Medical Industrial Complex to kill Health Care Reform.
(Source: OpenSecrets.org)

Researchers from Harvard Medical School say the lack of coverage can be tied to about 45,000 deaths a year in the United States. 12 Million Americans were denied health care coverage by the Medical Industrial Complex because they had a pre-existing medical condition. 12K Americans are denied insurance coverage everyday by a for-profit Insurance bureaucrat. (Source: WaPo Article 05′ by Harvard Prof. E. Warren)

Medical malpractice lawsuits are a hot topic but, are they? Tort Reform is such a “red herring” and is easily disproved. A 2004 report by the Congressional Budget Office said medical malpractice makes up only 2 percent of U.S. health spending. Even “significant reductions” would do little to curb health-care expenses, it concluded.

Citizens for Tax Justice pointed this out. The tax legislation enacted under President George W. Bush from 2001 through 2006 will cost $2.48 trillion over the 2001-2010 period. This includes the revenue loss of $2.11 trillion that results directly from the cheney/bush tax cuts as well as the $379 billion in additional interest payments on the national debt that we must make since the tax cuts were deficit-financed. Over the upcoming decade (2010-2019), the costs of the health care proposals approved by three committees in the U.S. House of Representatives are projected to be around $1 trillion and deficit neutral(that means they’re paid for). In 2010, when all the cheney/bush tax cuts are finally phased in, a staggering 52.5 percent of the benefits will go to the richest 5 percent of taxpayers. The cheney/bush tax cuts were deficit-financed, which increased the national debt and resulted in greater interest payments on that debt. cheney/bush administration never even tried to pay for their tax-cuts. So, for the price of cheney/bush’s tax-cuts for the wealthiest 5%, we could have had Health Care for every American. Instead Americans got bupkus and cheney/bush’s republican campaign contributors/golf buddies got filthy rich off of the Blood Money from No-Bid, Cost-Plus Federal Contracts.

Follow the Money: Link

Call Congress and demand, Single-Payer Health Care for All!

(Toll Free # House and Senate)
1-866-338-1015_______________1-866-220-0044
1-800-473-6711_______________1-866-311-3405

Sign Single-Payer Petition: Link

Don’t let the Medical Industrial Complex steal your Health Care from you and your family by donating huge sums of money to Crooked Politicians in order to maintain the Status Quo. Keep up the good fight.

SEMPER FI!

It’s very hard for imaginary people to do a lot of things!

The NCDC and the SCDC were contacted and asked to speak, endorse, support, and publicize the event. A press release was went out and a press conference was held, but only Newsday came and they did not report the event. So it was blacked out by the press and both Long Island Democratic parties That is a good reason why you were not notified. I suggest that you go to http://www.yeswecanli.org
and sign up for updates. Another event is in the planning stages