A vote against single payer or at least the public option is a vote [View All]

[JDPriestly]

for a Republican majority in Congress in 2010. Send that message to your Congressmember.

I suggest that we all target Senator Max Baucus and remind him point blank that we will not have a Democratic majority and he will not be chair of his committee unless there either single payer or a public option health insurance reform is passed by Congress. He needs to back the public option and get out there and sell it in Montana. His political goose is cooked as are all the political geese of Democrats in Congress if he does not back Obama on this one.

It makes Obama and the Democrats look weak when they can't get behind this one policy that is so clearly in the interest of the American people.

Make sure that your older friends and family members watch Obama's AARP/CNN press conference of this morning. He answered the questions on the minds of senior citizens and spoke to the fears of the older generation. This is really important.

Take action on this right now. Inundate Senator Baucus's office with e-mails and phone calls letting him know that he will lose his chairmanship if Republicans regain the majority in the Senate and that is what will happen if he does not back Obama on the public option.