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BlancheSplanchnik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 12:26 PM
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Bitch --- Then DO
Yes, there's plenty to bitch about.

But rants without a decision to act are just venting. Not that there's anything wrong with that, if that's as far as you want to go.

Please CALL your Senators to tell them reform must include a public option, and urge them not to give in to conservatives and Big Insurance. To call your Seantors, try googling on "**your state** senator contact".

From MoveOn.org:

Details are still emerging about this new deal. According to The Washington Post, "the government plan preferred by liberals would be replaced with a program that would create several national insurance policies administered by private companies."3

But half-measures simply won't cut it: we desperately need a real public option in order to hold private insurance companies accountable. That's far more important than appeasing Joe Lieberman and his friends in the insurance industry.

And this fight isn't over yet, no matter how many times the media tries to declare the death of the public option. It'd only take one or two senators to unravel this deal, and progressive senators Russ Feingold and Bernie Sanders both indicated last night that their support can't be taken for granted.4

So to win, we've got to send a powerful message to congressional Democrats and President Obama that we won't accept this deal. Instead of giving up on the public option, they ought to show real leadership and ratchet up the pressure on Lieberman and any Democratic senators who are threatening to filibuster.



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Sherman A1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 12:39 PM
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1. I have emailed my Senators aplenty
and get either no or canned responses on HCR. Bond I expect to oppose it, but I had such hopes for McCaskill and have been disappointed over and over....

I am pretty much, just tired of bothering with Claire.
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OHdem10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 12:51 PM
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2. Do I smell privatization???
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