Howard Dean on Face The Nation August 23. "Health Co-Ops Just Political Theater"

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Here is more detail from CBS on the interview this morning.

Glad to see him stand up for the public option. Seems like our congressional Democrats are running away from it very fast now.

Dean: Health Co-Ops Just Political Theater



He also says if we can spend so much money in Iraq and Afghanistan, we can spend money getting health care for our country.

And Kucinich. And Feingold.

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Howard Dean: Grassley's Health Care Distortions "Despicable ... Awful"

"Howard Dean criticized the Republican Party Sunday morning for picking up false rumors about health care reform started by the far right.

Asked about Sen. Chuck Grassley's comment that end-of-life care could "pull the plug on grandma," Dean pointed out that the Iowa Republican had voted for a similar provision for Medicare only a few years ago.

"All the House did was essentially repeat the same thing that Senator Grassley voted for in 2003 in their bill," Dean said. "Now, how you can morph that into 'pulling the plug on grandma,' I don't know. I think it's despicable. I think it's awful, the lies that have come out on this bill that are just designed to frighten the daylights out of people. But i think the American people are much smarter than politicians in Washington give them credit for, and they're going to figure this out, and they know they really do want health care reform."

hell out of grandma. Sociopathic creep. "That's not what your wife said" Grassley was grandstanding for applause, spouting misinformation and lies. A political maggot.

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.... in Obama's government? But they threw him out....after he won the election for them.

Imagine if he were Speaker of the House or the Dem whip or head of the Senate Finance Committee!...or something official....anything!

Like he says... the problem now is we're seeing "old style" Dem tactics still in charge, or Repug-lite, which didn't work then and won't work now.

He does a much better job of promoting health care reform the Sebelius, knows the background, knows the legislation, and is tireless in his pursuit of empowering the american people.

Not the going around in circles to be nice and bipartisan. Straight talk.

This is a good and fair and clear interview.

It should not even be controversial.

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When it passes, I want to see him standing next to the President at the signing ceremony.

But he will never get acknowledged for it.

but maybe he is exactly where he needs to be. Sometimes it takes those who have the knowledge of government but are removed from it to get the job done.

That'll be the day, that Obama gives Dean any credit for anything.

You are right.

into forgetting about a public option - as an option! Co-ops are a sham!

Republicans and very well paid-off cocksuckers who call themselves Blue Dogs or "conservative" or "moderate" Democrats, are nothing more than unbelievably slimy, paid-off 'democratic" thieves without no care for anyone but their greedy lying selves!

We know and expect as much from republicans without even having to say it!

Without a public option we'll be fucked real good by our Democratic majority and our paid-off "leaders"!

The incredibly rich insurance corporations & their lobbyist, through deregulation & unlimited money will control any threatening co-ops almost immediately....indirectly, secretly, as well as publicly so as to look good as they easily fuck us through bullshit co-ops.

The insurance corporations will gain even more profit via co-ops in the future....The insurance industry will not accept losing a dime and like a monster will continue to grow & grow, unstoppable, to do & charge as they please....They will lie, smear, distort, bribe, blackmail and kill if necessary to ensure it.

Co-ops will mean even more profit for the insurance industry as time goes on, and we'll be right back where we started, no public option health care for all and the insurance companies sucking us dry!

Co-op are a sham, a joke....complete bullshit to pacify both sides of the isle and fool the idiot gullible people that something has been accomplished and is why both the republicans & the insurance companies don't object to Co-ops....They will control them & profit from them in no time.

Make us think we are getting something.

I wonder why that hasn't come up as a compromise that snatches the blue dogs and the Maine Republicans in the Senate.

Regional co-ops are obviously inane, but a national one could work as real competition. If constructed well, that is.

Note: I'm a big Public Option supporter, but I want health care reform to pass both houses too.

There is going to be no compromise beyond the Public Option.

has been quite visible and vocal on this round of the health care debate. and there's no doubt whatsoever in my mind that he's got the President's ear, even if not acknowledged. He's just too damn smart not to be listened to.

K&R

Now, why is that?

and keep people aware of the republicans lies, smears, distortions, spin and smokescreens...both have different ways they go about it!

Howard Dean & Michael Moore are truly progressives NO one is going to push either of them around, nor can either of them be bought off...They are a rare breed indeed, a rarity in either party.

on Health care and health care reform than just about anybody else around - Oh yeah, I guess that's why. M$M wouldn't want people to get too informed on this subject. Just keep showing the idiots who choose to be hysterical over non-existent "boogey-men", driven by disinformaation, lies and propaganda from the Medical INsurance industry and their lobbyists the Corporate Lobbying Party (CLP), JOhn Boehner et al.

Had he been our President, we would have healthcare reform already. Instead, we have a wimpy President who if continues in his "byePartison" way, he can say BYE to a 2nd term.

But he doesn't even get to be HHS secretary, and doesn't even get INVITED to the changing of the guard ceremonies at the DNC.

Why?

Because he has enemies in the Dem establishment AND the Obama administration who despise him for the very qualities that we all admire.

So while those clowns collude through incompetence and corruption in the demise of the latest, best chance we have had for REAL reform, Dean is among the few national figures who speaks out clearly in their favor.

Heaven protect us from the crooks and idiots in Washington who are destroying the Democratic party (and the nation).