Friends Don’t Let Friends Not Vote Massachusetts’ Senate Election
Posted on January 19th, 2010 by Robert Creamer in From Our Partners
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Here's the bottom line: an enormous amount is at stake in Tuesday's election in Massachusetts to fill Senator Ted Kennedy's seat. So much is at stake that every Democrat — and every independent who wants fundamental change in Washington — has to vote, no matter how hard it is to get to the polls, no matter how inconvenient, no matter how disappointed you are with the pace of change in Washington.
Not only that. If you don't live in Massachusetts, get on the phone, call every friend you have in Massachusetts and tell them to stop what they're doing and go vote. Tell them that what they do will have a dramatic impact on you and your life no matter where you live in America — that if they care about you at all, they have to go vote to defeat Republican Scott Brown and elect Democrat Martha Coakley.
Just think how outrageous it would be if an election to replace the nation's most ardent champion of health care for all, stopped health care reform. That's exactly what Republican Scott Brown has said he will do — be the 41st vote to stop health insurance reform dead in its tracks.
I would HIGHLY encourage you to stop right this moment on THIS BLOG - not your personal blog - advocating for Coakley. Rest assured this blog is being monitored by that gawdawful right wing conspiracy, especially with the ex-CNNite running it.
Your activities in Mass. have to be insubstantial to your other activities as per your 501(c)(4) status, I should know - I've had to battle a gov't created 501(c)(3) to get them to stop serving booze on taxpayer dime.
Hope you appreciate my concern. I DO think of all the advocates for single-payer/public option this one makes some sense.
Just a word to the wise, 501(c)(4) organizations and their associated 527 organizations can do a certain amount of electoral-related work.
Right :-).
Just want to keep you on track.
Because Obamacare's gonna fall apart. THEN we are going to have to build a bill that unites independents & mavericks instead of partisans on one side, that ignores the partisans and defies the partisan hacks.
Well, well, well it's US SENATOR SCOTT BROWN… and Obamacare is dead. Let it go. It's like using Windows 95 to run your computer.
Time to start w/ this:
*Antitrust exemption repeal
*No discrimination due to precondition
*Insurance exchange for those below a certain income so all companies compete for affordable plans.
*Prevent cancellation of health insurance except in event of fraud
See, I don't speak "tea bag". This is a better alternative than a divisive alternative.
That's exactly what these bills do right now…
No, my friend, you have a co-op embedded in them as of now.
You have a death panel in them.
We need to cut out everything but these four items. And I mean EVERYTHING.
Co-ops are run by private companies. Death panels don't exist. Wow, you are delusional aren't you?
Oh the death panel is there: http://www.facebook.com/#/notes/SARAH-PALIN/midnight-votes-backroom-deals-and-a-death-panel/213042303434
I also hear there was a sneaky attempt to back door a public option. WHAT PART OF NO DON'T SOME PEOPLE GET?
What we need Jason is just line-item a few things that will mute the right wingers, give some reform and do this piecemeal.
Good news, seems as if some Dems in the House of Reps get it:
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http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/health-care/house-liberals-to-pelosi-we-cannot-support-the-senate-bill-period/
Tellingly, House liberals also urged Pelosi to consider passing individual pieces of reform through the House as individual bills, and sending them to the Senate to challenge the upper chamber to reject them, Grijalva tells me. Liberals said this approach would be preferable to passing the Senate bill.
For instance, Grijalva said, why not send the Senate individual bills that would, among other things, nix the “Cadillac” tax or close the donut hole, pressuring the Senate to deal with each provision separately?
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The only way we will get reform is reform that Americans can live with. Problem is, we need reform - I agree. This is good strategery.
Lovely. We get a Democratic Prez and majority in both houses and what happens with health care reform? Not a damn thing! Thank you so much, Democrats, for majorly screwing up something that many of us were passionate for and the reason we worked so hard to get you in office for. And now we got a new senator in MA, a GOP member soiling the seat a man was in who wanted to help the under- and un-insured! Already he's lying and saying the president is an illegitimate bastard. Thank you MA!
Yes, but Joe the Watchdog, how long do you think it will take now to get anything done in reform? Now you got another GOP member who isn't caring one iota that people can't afford insurance or are denied treatment. It's always the same old s__t in this matter. Think you have some progress and you're back in a hole. I don't see a damn thing happening on this in my lifetime.
'Ya got that right 'This Sucks'
Depends on what you call reform. I have a simple idea for US Senate Democrats… seat Brown. Do it ASAP.
Then piece by piece put each item up for a vote as an individual item. Demand an up-or-down vote at desks… and take whatever this process gives:
Start with slaying the antitrust exemption for insurance companies.
Then the elimination of discrimination due to preconditions by health insurers.
Then an insurance exchange for those below a certain income & small businesses so all companies compete for affordable plans from private sector.
Then the prevention of cancellation of health insurance except in event of fraud.
Let's see if the GOP will be angry or sane. If the GOP will stand behind its own rhetoric or filibullyster genuinely good bills. If we can get something done that is far AND free market. Oh and if moderates & centrists can stand up for middle America instead of partisan hacks & corporate donors.
The Senate health care bill does exactly the things you want. It's odd you're against it…
I'm against anything that reeks of a public option.
I'm for these four and ONLY these four.
Let's make Senator Brown these next two years show how independent he is. Let's go line item by line item instead of omnibus and see what happens.
I want something passed but it better be right and it better NOT cost taxpayer$ what they can't afford.
Senator Brown will be a lockstep republican. Very independent indeed…
My friends, please see http://bshor.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/scott-brown-is-more-liberal-than-olympia-snowe-and-now-hes-pivotal-too/ before you get prejudicial friend.
We didn't need anger from you MA, we needed your sanity. Too bad you couldn't provide that. Thank, but no thanks from the rest of the Country.
I think I'd be mightily angry if I were being taxed to solve other states' problems.
I think I'd be mightily angry at the brother of POTUS' chief-of-staff putting a pricetag on human life - aka "death panels".
I think I'd be mightily angry when Medicare & Medicaid are being cut to pay for Obamacare.
Okay? Time for my plan I just gave or nothing, which isn't really acceptable.
One last thing:
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/19/jim-cramer-markets-will-r_n_428697.html
According to Jim Cramer, a victory by Republican Scott Brown in today's Massachusetts Senate election will spark a market rally on Wednesday.
The "Mad Money" pundit predicted that some health care stocks — HMOs, pharmaceutical companies, and medical device-makers in particular — will rise on news of a Republican victory, since such a win would strip the Democrats of the 60-vote supermajority they need to hammer out a health care reform bill.
But not everyone agrees that a health care reform bill will be detrimental to the health care industry. Some critics point out that health care stocks advanced on news of reform last year, and Cramer himself argues that "it's been clear as a bell that the health care reform wasn't going to affect most health care stocks."
Much more important than health care, Cramer says, is the overall signal of "a more pro-business, less pro-labor government" that a Brown victory would send. And he anticipates this perception on the part of investors to fuel a broad surge in the markets tomorrow that will drive up shares in a number of industries, including oil and banks.
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Okay, let's note this too. Gee thanks for holding the economy back on scary plans "This Sucks" because this sucks. It sucks when we have Congress + White House overreach beyond Constitution to provide new service instead of regulate interstate commerce, when the economy is held back due to fear and when people who need help don't get it.
Night and good luck since you'll need it.