Senator Feinstein, Stop Nay-Saying On Health Reform

from HuffPost:



Jason Rosenbaum
Activist living in Washington, DC; works for Health Care for America Now

Senator Feinstein, Stop Nay-Saying On Health Reform
Posted: June 23, 2009


In the last few days, there has been a significant shift in the political winds in Washington towards real health care reform, with a robust public health insurance option at its heart. The last thing we need is someone nay-saying that reform won't pass. Let's take a look at the landscape.

First, two polls from respected news organizations were released almost simultaneously, both showing strong support for a public health insurance option. The Wall Street Journal/NBC poll showed 76% in favor of the choice of public health insurance, and the New York Times/CBS poll showed 72% favor that same choice. As Nate Silver, polling guru and most accurate forecaster of the 2008 elections, put it, "Overall, polling points toward the public option being at least mildly popular and indeed perhaps quite popular."

Second, proposals in Congress are moving in the direction of offering Americans this choice that they clearly want. On Friday, the three committees in the House with jurisdiction over health care, endorsed by the House leadership, came out with a great bill, with everything we wanted in it. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-rosenbaum/senator-feinstein-stop-na_b_219629.html

of strategery on her part.

She annoys the hell out of me.

Her tactics have long (too long) been to obfuscate on issues a conservative would never support, delay a vote as long as possible until another issue has seized the news cycle, then vote as a conservative as often as possible....provided she can do it under the cover of a few real liberals voting against the issue.

Its a well honed dance she's become adept at so she can continue to fool the voters that she's a "rational progressive" instead of a conservative Democrat (which wouldnt sell well in most of her part of California).