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Jul 31 '09

Liberals Stand, Blue Dogs Cave: Health Reform Lives Another Day.

03:57:22 pm, Categories: Had to post it, Obamarama

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Way to go, Progressive Caucus. I guess those endless emails Americans sent you were heeded. In record time no less.
It was your job to stand for the Public Option and you did it well.

All we ask now is that you remain rock solid and continue to oppose the obstructionist Blue Dogshits to the very end. We, of course, will stand with you.
Health care reform without a Public Option is useless.
Please continue to oppose anything less. This fight is by no means over.

Thanx for being the only Democrats with any manner of courage.

It took all of 24 hrs for the Progressive Democrats in Congress to put their collective foot in the Blue Dog/Republican Lite’s collective ass.
Thankfully, the great leader, Dennis Kucinich, is a far better “power broker” than the rookie scumbag, Mike Ross D/R-Arkansas. Mike Ross, firmly in the pocket of the Big Pharmaceutical industry, led the failed attempt to derail Health Reform.

Firedog Lake has some perspective on Ross…

….Thanks, Mike! Your commitment to the financial well-being of our country is admirable.

This is probably just a coincidence.

A pharmacist, Ross founded Ross Pharmacy Inc. He sold the business in 2007, but according to his 2008 financial disclosure form, he and wife Holly still “own 100% of stock” in the company, which pays dividends over $100,000 a year. Holly Ross is also listed as employed by Super D Drug Acquisition Co.

And while Ross rakes it in, nearly 1 in 5 residents of Arkansas are without health insurance.

Guess who’s his biggest sugar daddy?

The health industry was the #1 sector contributing to Ross last year. OpenSecrets.org lists $261,000 in contributions from individuals and PAC’s from health care businesses….

But yesterday, the Progressive Caucus stood up and proclaimed, in no uncertain terms, that any legislation that did not contain a Public Option to insure all Americans the right to health care was going to be defeated.
That’s when the true majority asserted it’s self and the lowly Blue Dogshit turned tail and ran.

From The Associated Press:

WASHINGTON — Democrats on a key House committee said Friday they have patched up their differences on a health care overhaul, and went back to work confident they can advance the complex legislation.

“We have agreed we need to pull together,” said Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif. Liberals, moderates, and conservatives negotiated late into the night Thursday to reach a deal that would restore some subsidies to help low-to-middle income people pay their health insurance premiums, would preserve a strong public insurance option, and would cut drug costs more deeply, Waxman said.

No details of the deal were immediately available, but Waxman said he intends to formally present it to the committee later in the day, and the panel should pass the bill Friday afternoon.

The full committee resumed its deliberations on the sweeping legislation that seeks to hold down costs and provide health care to nearly all the nation’s 50 million uninsured.

The last-minute agreement mollified liberals who were outraged by a deal Waxman struck earlier in the week with conservatives known as the Blue Dog Democrats. Friday, lawmakers from both camps joined him to say they were now in accord.

It didn’t take long for the Democratic Left to shout down the obstructionists and uplift the Aggressive Progressives. We’re not finished either. Not by a damn sight.
We will not allow the likes of Mike Ross and other such greedy pigs to deprive the children of America of their wellness.

Many thanx and mucho respecto to these fine, courageous Americans of the Democratic Progressive Caucus…

Co-Chairs
Hon. Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-07)
Hon. Lynn Woolsey (CA-06)

Vice Chairs
Hon. Diane Watson (CA-33)
Hon. Keith Ellison (MN-05)
Hon. Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18)
Hon. Mazie Hirono (HI-02)
Hon. Dennis Kucinich (OH-10)
Hon. Donna F. Edwards (MD-04)
Hon. Alan Grayson (FL-08)

Senate Members
Hon. Bernie Sanders (VT)
Hon. Tom Udall (NM)

House Members
Hon. Neil Abercrombie (HI-01)
Hon. Tammy Baldwin (WI-02)
Hon. Xavier Becerra (CA-31)
Hon. Earl Blumenauer (OR-03)
Hon. Robert Brady (PA-01)
Hon. Corrine Brown (FL-03)
Hon. Michael Capuano (MA-08)
Hon. André Carson (IN-07)
Hon. Donna Christensen (VI-AL)
Hon. Judy Chu (CA-32)
Hon. Yvette Clarke (NY-11)
Hon. William “Lacy” Clay (MO-01)
Hon. Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05)
Hon. Steve Cohen (TN-09)
Hon. John Conyers (MI-14)
Hon. Elijah Cummings (MD-07)
Hon. Danny Davis (IL-07)
Hon. Peter DeFazio (OR-04)
Hon. Rosa DeLauro (CT-03)
Hon. Sam Farr (CA-17)
Hon. Chaka Fattah (PA-02)
Hon. Bob Filner (CA-51)
Hon. Barney Frank (MA-04)
Hon. Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11)
Hon. Luis Gutierrez (IL-04)
Hon. John Hall (NY-19)
Hon. Phil Hare (IL-17)
Hon. Alcee Hastings (FL-23)
Hon. Maurice Hinchey (NY-22)
Hon. Michael Honda (CA-15)
Hon. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-02)
Hon. Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30)
Hon. Hank Johnson (GA-04)
Hon. Marcy Kaptur (OH-09)
Hon. Carolyn Kilpatrick (MI-13)
Hon. Barbara Lee (CA-09)
Hon. John Lewis (GA-05)
Hon. David Loebsack (IA-02)
Hon. Ben R. Lujan (NM-3)
Hon. Carolyn Maloney (NY-14)
Hon. Ed Markey (MA-07)
Hon. Eric Massa (NY-29)
Hon. Jim McDermott (WA-07)
Hon. James McGovern (MA-03)
Hon. George Miller (CA-07)
Hon. Gwen Moore (WI-04)
Hon. Jim Moran (VA-08)
Hon. Jerrold Nadler (NY-08)
Hon. Eleanor Holmes-Norton (DC-AL)
Hon. John Olver (MA-01)
Hon. Frank Pallone (NJ-06)
Hon. Ed Pastor (AZ-04)
Hon. Donald Payne (NJ-10)
Hon. Chellie Pingree (ME-01)
Hon. Jared Polis (CO-02)
Hon. Charles Rangel (NY-15)
Hon. Laura Richardson (CA-37)
Hon. Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34)
Hon. Bobby Rush (IL-01)
Hon. Linda Sánchez (CA-47)
Hon. Jan Schakowsky (IL-09)
Hon. José Serrano (NY-16)
Hon. Louise Slaughter (NY-28)
Hon. Pete Stark (CA-13)
Hon. Bennie Thompson (MS-02)
Hon. John Tierney (MA-06)
Hon. Nydia Velazquez (NY-12)
Hon. Maxine Waters (CA-35)
Hon. Mel Watt (NC-12)
Hon. Henry Waxman (CA-30)
Hon. Peter Welch (VT-AL)
Hon. Robert Wexler (FL-19)

Steve Cohen took the pledge. Right on, Steve-o.

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Comment from: victorg423 [Member]

I happened to come across this on the 'net:

Right now, we're watching six U.S. senators (from some of the most sparsely populated states) and seven Commerce Committee Blue Dog Democrats hijack the health care debate. Together, these 13 tyrants represent just 13 million people - or 4 percent of the total population. And they are obstructing a health care bill for the other 300 million of us.
First, the Congressional Black Caucus is right - it's not a coincidence that the people holding up health care are not only themselves all white, but represent disproportionately undiverse districts. In all, these districts have about half the African-American and Latino populations as the country at large. Put another way, the districts and states whose representatives are obstructing health care disproportionately under-represent two major communities with a particularly vested interest in health care reform.

On the other hand, these districts and states are also disproportionately poor. The average poverty rate of the states/districts of the 13 tyrants are higher and the per capita income lower than the national average. That should give these folks a particular interest in health care reform, considering that reform will disproportionately help constituents who can't afford health care.

Except, that gets us to campaign contributions.....the mix of legalized bribery and a tyrannical system that lets the very few legislate for the very many can easily make legislators vote against their own districts' interests.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/31/EDLK191IT3.DTL

Permalink 08/01/09 @ 19:24

Comment from: captainkona [Member]

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That's right, vic.

Blue Dogshits are tremendously corrupt and more often than not, represent rural, sparsely populated districts.

I'm thankful that the Progressives in the house shoved a sock in their mouths. Hopefully they choke on it before they kill any more Americans by opposing reform.

Permalink 08/01/09 @ 19:34

Comment from: victorg423 [Member]

The 'Democratic Underground' has reported that the republicans have their own proposal for health care:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6192701

Permalink 08/02/09 @ 18:51

Comment from: captainkona [Member]

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"Single Prayer"

LOL

Aside from the fact that it's good to pray for the well being of others, that particular bit of satire very closely reflects the delusional, self-absorbed mentality of the Right.

This asshat just murdered his own daughter by having some losers "pray" over her instead of taking her to the hospital.
Again, it's good to pray. It's not good to play God which is what was done here.
Fake Christian snake-handler scum like that do not have, or even understand "faith". They have only arrogance and sheer stupidity thinking they have some special magical power connection to God.

I'll bet you any amount of money that if that pig votes he votes Republican.

Permalink 08/03/09 @ 12:39

Comment from: Tim [Visitor]

I want health reform, now and I'm not in the let's give ground to our opponents camp, I like to take ground. I believe the operative word here is "Courage". This fight is going to take a spine, guts, courage and a never say die attitude. We are in the fight of our lives and if we are going to win this fight we have to bite, claw, kick and fight to the death and never give up. Too much is at stake and like one person I heard say, some of us may not be alive the next time, it's all the chips in the pot and don't take any prisoners. I personally want our leaders to ram this reform straight down the republican's neck so they have to choke on this for a long time to come. As a matter of fact nothing would give me greater pleasure than to rub their collective faces in it. "When it looks like you're not going to make it you have to get plum maddog mean, because if you don't, you neither live nor win". Clint Eastwood, The Outlaw Josey Whales. Get plum maddog mean people and lets ram this thing down hard because let's face it, the only good republican is a republican with government healthcare with a single payer option. I think I've made my position clear. SupermanHotMale on Twitter

Permalink 08/08/09 @ 00:18

Comment from: captainkona [Member]

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Tim

Every word, true.

And to offer up an appropriate quote to sum up our shared outlook...

"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. "
— H.L. Mencken

The enemies of the people love Mencken. So they should understand where we're coming from just fine.
We will have National Health Care. And there's nothing they can do about it. Nothing.

Permalink 08/08/09 @ 11:24

Comment from: Tim [Visitor]

Thanks Captainkona, I like the way you think.

Tim