MSNBC Jay Rockefeller will nto support a plan without a PO

[nadinbrzezinski]

and is critical of Co-ops

Just now on MSNBC

[NewJeffCT]

1. That's a nice pick-up

I wasn't sure if he would be for a public option.

[Inuca]

4. Actually he has been

one of its strongest and vocal supporters in the Senate. Kind of surprising, I know, but I think Rockefeller is difficult to pigeonhole.

[soleft]

2. it must have been those symbols on the side of Rockefeller Ctr

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Power to the people.... and Glen Beck splained them to Jay

:-)

[CrownPrinceBandar]

3. GO JAY!!!!!!!!!........n/t

[David Zephyr]

5. Thank you, Senator Rockefeller. We need more to be declarative like you.

There will be zero Republicans anyway, so why not just damn the torpedoes and do the best thing for our citizens.

The people want it.

The doctors want it.

Move it.

[babylonsister]

7. The ink wasn't even dry on Baucus' plan before he came out with

statement. Props! :thumbsup:

[BlooInBloo]

8. Wow. I wouldn't have expected that of him.

[OHdem10]

9. Actually Rockefellar made this announcement because the Baucus

Plan is due out. He will not support the Baucus Plan because
of the Co-OPs.

[cal04]

10. i'm not surprised. He brought it up on This Week/Sunday

when Landreau was defending the Insurance companies


Following up on his This Week appearance where he promised to fight on for the public option, Sen. Jay Rockefeller blasted the draft bill produced by Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus: “there is no way in its present form that I vote for it unless it changes in the amendment process by vast amounts.”
http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2009/09/sen-jay-rockefeller-dumps-on-baucus-bill.html

or here
http://abcnews.go.com/thisweek

[Sebastian Doyle]

11. Jay has also said we should tax the rich to pay for it.

And when a Rockefeller says tax the rich, what better endorsement is there?

[MountainLaurel]

12. That's terrific news

His constituents include most of my family. I'm tired of the disconnect and cognitive dissonance of the communities they live in, where no one bats an eye at a coffee can on the Dairy Mart counter collecting money for a pediatric leukemia patient trying to raise money for surgery or rehabilitation therapy, or for a police officer severely injured while responding to an accident at the same time editorials in the newspaper decry government health care.