Thank You Slinkerwink! "Stop The Handwringing About President Obama's Speech!"

[berni_mccoy]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/9/10/779822/-Stop-The-Handwringing-About-President-Obamas-Speech!

I'm already seeing diaries from people giving up on the fight for the public option as an essential cost containment in health care reform. I've had enough of the handwringing, so if you want to stop handwringing for a second, then why don't you help me make phone calls to the Congressional Progressive Caucus today and write letters to the editor if your Representative is one of the 65who signed the letter to Kathleen Sebelius saying he or she would vote against a bill without a public option?

This is what I want you to do today--help me and thousands of other Americans in killing the trigger on the public option and arguing against co-operatives. If your Representative who signed the letter sees your letter in the newspaper asking him or her to stand against a trigger on the public option, then that Representative knows there's support in his or her district for taking a strong stand for a trigger-free public option in the final bill!

All you handwringers should go read slinkerwink's diary and then make yourselves useful. That is, if you really believe in a Public Option.

[emulatorloo]

1. Constructive Action makes a lot of sense -- I keep calling my Reps and Senators n/t

[Donnachaidh]

2. more namecalling -- nice.

Karl would be proud. :sarcasm:

[berni_mccoy]

4. Oh, are you saying YOU are a handwringer? I had no idea!

[Luminous Animal]

6. Jeesh, how many DUers are you going to insult today?

[Luminous Animal]

3. Why do you assume the "handwringers"

aren't doing something? Show me the posts here where people have stated that they have given up the fight?

FYI, slinkerwink is a woman.

[berni_mccoy]

5. That's slinkerwink's assumption. Are you calling yourself a handwringer?

[Luminous Animal]

8. She called the quitters hangwringers.

She did not characterize the fighters as hangwringers. Name the quitters on this board.

[berni_mccoy]

9. There are plenty. But you're asking me to violate DU rules.

[DevonRex]

7. I think the hangwringing has a professional aspect to it. nt

[berni_mccoy]

10. Definitely makes you wonder. Are people paid to handwring?

[DevonRex]

12. Well, it's either professional or pathological.

:evilgrin:

[flyarm]

11. Sen. Claire McCaskill: I'm Happy We're 'Handcuffing The Public Option'

ALL I HAVE TO DO IS LISTEN TO CLAIRE..AND I HAVE THW WHOLE PICTURE!..THEY ARE ALL WHORES TO BIG CORP!


Sen. Claire McCaskill: I'm Happy We're 'Handcuffing The Public Option'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9RV_r-k9lU&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Edemocraticunderground%2Ecom%2Fdiscuss%2Fduboard%2Ephp%3Faz%3Dview%5Fall%26address%3D385x368864&feature=player_embedded

[berni_mccoy]

13. I can't see the video. Did she actually say that and in what context was it?

And it goes to show why we must take action for the PO.

[flyarm]

15. she says a public option could morph into a comprehensive government plan

that a moderate like her can not support ...and that Obama handcuffed the public option in his speech.

[damntexdem]

14. No hand-wringing, but maybe a bit of hand-shaking.

And hopefully Obama will do a little arm-twisting.