Reply #92: Et tu, Brutus? [View All]

Markos 9/08/09 in thehill.com article:
"If Democrats abandon the public option, they risk a demoralized, cynical base, one unwilling to do the work to get Democrats elected and which will stay home on Election Day. Republicans, on the other hand, are becoming increasingly active and engaged. Shades of 2006 and 2008 in reverse?"


December 15, 2009 Reid Wilson: Tuesday’s Starting Lineup The DailyKos founder sent the DC press corps into spasms last night with 2 tweets signaling his dissatisfaction with Health Care legislation. "Insurance companies win. Time to kill this monstrosity coming out of the Senate," he wrote.

and

There is a major push among liberal Democrats -- led by Democracy for America , the group that emerged from Howard Dean's presidential campaign -- to strip the Health Care reform bill of the individual mandate to buy Insurance now that the Public Option is gone. Markos Moulitsas : "The mandate puts the government in the untenable position of forcing everyone to buy a shitty product from private companies enjoying anti-monopoly protections. Funny how all the measures that helped people in...



There's a lot more comments by Markos where these came from, but you get the idea.

So, how many pieces of silver did it take?????