Mary Landrieu on This Week: "Dont hurt insurance companies"

[Mass]

Mary Landrieu (D- Louisiana) reiterated her opposition for a public option. She stated the reason why: she does not want to hurt private insurance companies. She said it at least 3 times, just in case we missed the first one.

If only she could care as much about those in LA who do not have access to healthcare.

Add to that she seemed more in agreement with Palewnty than Rockefeller on this.

[bullimiami]

1. is that because private insurance has been such an honest broker

and has been such a careful steward of the health of the american people?

[Mass]

2. It was Steph interviewing. We already know his position on public option.

The only strong supporter of the public option there was Rockefeller, but he is too polite to tell the lady she is a fool.

[thunder rising]

11. no, insurance companies are precious gifts to all of us. They care and understand the need

and suffering.

:eyes: :puke:

[treestar]

3. Are there some big insurance companies in that state?

That employ a lot of people?

Why does the PO hurt insurance companies? They aren't insuring people who can't afford it now, anyway.

[thunder rising]

12. to say companies is a stretch, technically correct, but the word implies competition and there's not

[OHdem10]

4. Is anyone surprised. She is a Pro Business Democrat.

[depakid]

28. Pro business? LOL

As if these parasites aren't abusing American businesses at every turn.

Bottom line is that this is a woman of very poor character that the Dems would be much better off without.

[jonnyblitz]

5. Obama essentially said the same thing to Lynn Woolsey

according to the now infamous Matt Tiabbi Rolling Stone article that got all the Obamabots' panties in a twist. He said if he were starting from scratch he would be for single payer but now it would only disrupt the health care industry.


(third paragraph in "step one: aim low" section):
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/29988909/sick_and_wrong/print

[xchrom]

6. shrug -- nothing that's being proposed is going to hurt the insurance companies

ability to make goo-gobs of money -- so why waste the air and say so?

because you want to create a tempest in a teapot.

[ProSense]

8. Yeah, I suspect the RW and insurance companies staged those rallies to

give the appearance that they were against reform.

[ProSense]

7. Wonder why people like Sirota don't go after Landrieu and try to tear down her

character instead of trying to smear Nancy Pelosi? Landrieu and the other obstacles to real reform escape criticism.

[Overseas]

15. We criticize Blue Dogs like Landreiu very often. GOP lite.

Many of us are very frustrated by The Blue Dog Conservadems like Landreiu. They are less concerned about the needs of the people than their own need for private campaign funding.

The Blue Dogs like Landreiu do a lot to obstruct President Obama's agenda and push it to the right.

[Deja Q]

9. Meanwhile they hurt everyone else.

[Zoeisright]

31. +1

[blm]

10. Landreiu: Please don't hurt FedEx, DHL, UPS just so Americans can have affordable Postal Service

.

[baldguy]

13. What have insurance companies ever done to deserve such consideration?

Thom Hartmann put it best: Why should insurance companies even exist? What do they add to the equation?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6bwbbjY4Os

[LibDemAlways]

14. There should never be a D after Landrieu's name. The full

DINO should be spelled out. She's an embarrassment.

[yourout]

16. I say we euthanize them.

Put them out of our misery.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

17. Notice that "This Week" didn't have balance. When they put a Democrat on tee-vee, they put a

DemoCRAP like Landrieu. You'll never see a member of the progressive caucus! You'll never get a true Democrat. You'll either get a Blue Dog or a DLCer!! :puke:

[Aramchek]

18. My letter to Mary:

Senator Landrieu,

Please let it be noted that in the year of 2009 in the great battle between the Insurance Conglomerates and the American People, Mary Landrieu came down squarely in support of the Insurance Industry.

I hope they have taken good care of you, Mary. Because you are certainly taking good care of them, at the expense of the very People you were elected to help. Am I confused in thinking that it was American citizens who put you in office? You are supposed to be our representative. Not the Insurance Companies’.

While you defend the Insurance Industry Profit Margins, they drop the coverage of real live Americans.
While you fight a Public Option, real Americans go without healthcare.
While you try to put a stop to meaningful reform, the insurance companies make billions in profits. But I guess as long as they drop a few bucks in your campaign fund, you are alright with that, huh?

I am not convinced that having Democrats like you, who sabotage our Party from the inside, is any better than having a Republican fill your seat. At least then People wouldn’t be confused into thinking that ‘the Democrats are divided’.

So, thanks for nothing, Mary. I would wish you good luck in your next election, but then again, I don’t really want you to be reelected.

[EndElectoral]

19. Jesus, it seems hopeless with bimbos like this.

[Hippo_Tron]

20. It's not her fault that the state is full of morans who voted 59-41 for McSame

Too many people here would rather keep their crappy insurance or have none at all than have "socialized medicine" and risk any of their money possibly go to a lazy black person.

[WCGreen]

27. That is what is lost in all of this, Mary represents the people

who elected her...

The reason she is on the news show, like it or not, is simply because she is seen as a pivitol player in the Senate Health Care debate.

I don't like it, I don't like it at all, but at least she votes with the Dem's when they organize the Senate.

[Jack Rabbit]

21. Senator, give me one good reason why we shouldn't hurt them

[Kaleva]

22. In her view, I imagine it's better to hurt the millions of uninsured

[Hawkowl]

23. Corporations are people too!

Just ask the Supreme Court! This country is insane.

[grantcart]

25. right she just doesn't want to discriminate

[Joanne98]

24. Gawd I hate that woman!

[Vinca]

26. Ah, cut Mary some slack. I'm sure she loves the insurance companies

because they were so generous to the victims of Katrina.:sarcasm:

[Hansel]

30. No kidding. Remember how she rejected the "public option"

when it came to pouring billions of dollars into her state to replace her citizen's homes and possessions.

Oh, wait no. She actually cried and whined on the senate floor for money for weeks to get the public option for her citizens. But she doesn't, apparently, seemed to be that concerned about their health. Makes you wonder who she was really concerned about.

http://www.dhs.gov/xfoia/archives/gc_1157649340100.shtm

At President Bush’s request, Congress has provided a total of $16.7 billion in Federal funds under the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) program to help rebuild damaged housing and other infrastructure. This unprecedented program represents the largest single housing recovery program in U.S. history.

This was in direct result of Landrieu's begging for this money and throwing childish temper tantrums on the senate floor at times.

And it continues to this day:

http://www.gulfcoastnews.com/GCNnewsKatrinaFedFunding061209.htm

Maybe some of the other Democrats might want to remind her of this.


There are more businesses that would be helped by a public option than hurt. Logic tells me that she's specifically concerned about insurance companies because she is getting something from them.

[GivePeaceAchance]

29. Awww, poor insurance companies how will the multi millionaire CEOs survive. *weeps*

[IndianaGreen]

32. And let us not hurt the bankers either, little Mary Pooh!

What an idiot!

[bigwillq]

33. Time to vote her out

and anyone else against a true public option, including the president.

[anonymous171]

34. She's right. We need to eliminate them. If we "hurt" them they would just be back with a vengeance

[polichick]

35. Looks like a lot of Congress and the WH is worried about hurting insurance companies...

...otherwise we'd have single payer.