Hubert Flottz
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Fri Mar-12-10 06:22 PM
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You can still have a public option... |
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Fri Mar-12-10 06:32 PM
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Hubert Flottz
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Fri Mar-12-10 06:41 PM
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2. Somebody that will work for you and me instead of the... |
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corporations that bribe them with perks and huge campaign donations or those million dollar jobs after they leave office.
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Fri Mar-12-10 06:48 PM
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4. It's the system as a whole that those Reps work within that is 100% corrupt |
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Fri Mar-12-10 06:47 PM
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3. or get elected to congress. |
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they have a public option already.
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Fri Mar-12-10 07:41 PM
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5. I already TRIED that. My guy won, but it didn't work out. n/t |
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Fri Mar-12-10 07:48 PM
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6. You need to vote progressives in locally |
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In the Senate and Congress. The President only signs the legislation, the senate and house have to push it through and get votes for it.
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Fri Mar-12-10 11:57 PM
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8. Yeah, working on that, too. But the President doesn't just sign it. |
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He has the bully pulpit. Obama put so little effort into pushing a public option that it pretty much looks like he was never into it at all. (Not after election time, anyway.)
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Fri Mar-12-10 07:52 PM
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7. yeah, that's working well isn't it? |
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