So, there we have it. All of these members are in strong Democratic districts whose seats could only be threatened by primary challenges from other Democrats.

Vote for the one whose excuse you think just doesn’t cut it, the one who just can’t seem to”walk the talk.”

The Hill reports that President Obama was booed when he brought up the Baucus bill at his health insurance reform rally at the University of Maryland.

Joe Szakos leads the Virginia Organizing Project, an almost fifteen year-old community organization that Health Care for America Now works with in Virginia to organize for health care reform. Szakos’s organization employs dozens of people, and they get their health care through Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield.

Why does Obama hate the Poles?

Any Democrat who thinks that voting for a health care bill with mandates, fines and no public option is a good idea might want to take a look at what happened at the AFL-CIO convention yesterday: “Delegates at the AFL-CIO’s convention in Pittsburgh chanted “bullshit” in response to the plan from the Senate Finance Committee’s chairman.”

I guess that business about “I’ll never say what’s going to happen down the road” is some kind of new personal rule that he’s adopted in the past 2 months. Just as Rep. Ellison and Grijalva are trying to whip the 40 votes necessary among those who are “adamant” that a final bill “must retain a strong and robust health insurance option.”

Ceci Connolly says her Pay2Play pals in the health care industry love Max’s bill.

Ezra Klein’s last assessment of the Baucus proposal, contains some helpful suggestions, about which there is 80 percent agreement among liberals. So what’s the 20 percent?

It sucked to be Rahm Emanuel yesterday. The Veal Pen didn’t hold — the White House had been counting on them for “liberal” cover, and although many of them had compliantly eliminated the public plan from their literature and outreach in recent weeks, the pressure on their credibility was such that many had to issue statements of protest upon the release of the Baucus bill.

Today Baucus released the Chairman’s mark of his health care reform bill along with a CBO report on the legislation. I’ve found 7 interesting and important issues in the report. 1. It looked like Baucus purposely left himself a small possible giveaway to liberals. His bill in fact saves $49 billion, which could be used to increase subsidies by that amount while still keeping it budget neutral.