Write Dem leaders: No strong public option makes Dems look corrupt, cowardly, and incompetent

[yurbud]

This is the letter I just sent Harry Reid, and variations to Pelosi and my congressman and senators:

At least 60% or more of the public have consistently supported a strong public option in the final health care reform bill.

If the Democrats fail to deliver this, it will be interpreted as caving in to the most corrupt members of the party who are working for the insurance industry, and the weak excuse of a threatened GOP filibuster could easily be surmounted by requiring them to do a real filibuster and not just a hypothetical one.

The Senate especially seem to want to put corruption and corporate toadying ahead of the public good, and jeopardize not just people's lives and financial stability, but the Democratic majorities in Congress.



Send it to Harry:
http://reid.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm

Pelosi:
http://www.speaker.gov/contact

Your senators & congressmen:
http://www.contactingthecongress.org/

[villager]

1. you mean, more corrupt, cowardly and incompetent than usual?

:shrug:

[jgraz]

17. +1

[Ozymanithrax]

2. We should say "unelectable."

"Corrupt, cowardly, and incompetent" is a virtue in Washington.

[clear eye]

4. Unfortunately, they won't believe it until they see it.

They think that more corporate campaign donations means they can sell themselves no matter what their record is.

Odds are, they will see it as swing voters zigzag between one group of corrupt officials and another.

[reggie the dog]

3. they are corrupt, cowardly, but not incompetent

they know who they work for

[yurbud]

11. I was thinking of incompetent for those who may be progressive but don't flex their muscles

[barbtries]

5. thank you

i'm at work and cannot really think so am ganking your words to paste into my emails. tell me you don't mind. :)

[depakid]

6. This is why it's better for the party and the nation that DINO's are removed from power

one way or another.

[yurbud]

8. Because the DINO's don't give a crap about ideals or even being in the majority

as long as they get paid.

[depakid]

12. They blur the contrast between the two parties

and prevent effective solutions to the nation's problems from being enacted or implemented.

This in addition to being people of poor character.

[yurbud]

16. and I have to agree with Grover Norquist: bipartisanship is date rape

and we're the date.

[barbtries]

7. done.

no time at all.

[yurbud]

9. yep. Maybe 3-5 minutes tops.

[Fumesucker]

10. What on Earth makes you think this isn't the way they want to look?

When people keep doing the same thing over and over again eventually you have to come to the conclusion that it is deliberate on their part.

[Echo In Light]

13. I know!!!!!! it fuckin blows my mind, this "cowardly/incompetency" bullshit that some cling to

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. They may not care how they look...

Maybe they think we're so stupid that we won't notice, or maybe they don't care as long as they get rich.

Who knows?

:shrug:

[clear eye]

15. I regularly call and write my reps in Congress, not for "public option" but for single payer.

They know that it means I want something that actually works.

What I'm putting more of my energy into now is getting the word out on the Fair Elections Now Act proposed by Sen. Durbin and supported by six major public interest groups: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=514621&mesg_id=514621 .
The purpose of that is, of course, to get a Congress elected that can do anything in the public interest when it impacts mega-corporations.

[yurbud]

19. this one isn't over yet.

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[liberalhistorian]

20. Maybe it's time to face that fact that too many of them,

like too many repubs, ARE corrupt, cowardly and incompetent. I never, ever thought I'd say this as a staunch Dem, but I'm really beginning to see the appeal of third parties and why people gravitate to them, or become independents, even though they're never as strong as the two entrenched powers.

[clear eye]

24. More effective response is to publicize & support "FENA"

as a way of decreasing corruption in general. The barriers against a 3rd party are formidable and don't guarantee that they won't be corrupted in turn. In the meantime we need to be able to elect more representatives who are not wholly bought. Giving candidates a real choice of public financing makes that possible. FENA is becoming more urgent w/ SCOTUS's expected ruling to legalize most corporate campaign donations.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=514621&mesg_id=514621

[Bluebear]

21. "look"?

[classysassy]

22. The cowardly crooks are incompetent

thats not news.

[yurbud]

23. telling them they are directly would be.