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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Health / Politics Is the Public Option Back?

Posted by Dan Savage on Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:14 PM

MoveOn.org says that she is...

John Cole at Balloon Juice says that she's not...

At some point, people are going to accept that there were never 51 and most certainly were never 60 votes for the public option. I can say this quite confidently, because had there been that level of support for it, it would have passed! Just like the actual Senate HCR bill passed with 60 votes! Instead, it was repeatedly stripped from the bill and quietly killed. And not by Republicans. Now what people need to do is figure out why, if they are so sure the public option will pass, only 20 some Senators have signed on to it, and even some of them privately want it to go away. Here is a hint—a lot of Senators ARE LYING TO YOU.

And Daily Kos walks you through what you can do to help her out.

 

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She is losing in the last shot there.
Posted by NIG GER on February 24, 2010 at 4:50 PM · Report
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Why even fucking bother? These people are never going to give us what we need... We gave them the White House and a majority in both houses of Congress (a filibuster proof majority in the Senate, no less)... a Progressive mandate, right? Apparently not, as they turned around and sold us out regardless. I'm with Greenwald on this one: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_gr…
It's time to abandon these professional losers. I don't care if it does guarantee us a generation of right wing free market Hell. We were going to get that anyway. I'm voting Green from here on out...
Posted by Tommy on February 25, 2010 at 12:05 AM · Report
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Does this mean Heather Graham will take care of me when I'm sick?
Posted by Andy Mesa on February 26, 2010 at 2:53 PM · Report

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