Quick Read: Last Day for Reps to Sign the Polis/Pingree Letter for a Public Option

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Tuesday February 02, 2010 · 9:43 AM PST

2010/02/02 · 09:43

A very quick post to remind everyone with a Progressive Representative in Congress to spend just 2 minutes of your time checking to see if your Rep. has signed onto Representative Polis and Pingree's letter asking Harry Reid to introduce a reconciliation bill to pass a public option for health care. Today is the last day before the letter is delivered.

Already 92 94 96 98 ~~103~~ 107 Reps have signed on. But more is clearly better. The PCCC's goal is to surpass 100 by the end of the day. Yesterday, it stood at 81 - the momentum is on our side.

12:30PM PST UPDATE: Looks like we've past the Century Mark. Let's keep going! Keep on coming at them with the calls!

So, please check the list of signers right now at whipcongress.com to see if your Rep has signed on. If s/he has already signed on they you're done! But if your Rep is not listed as a supporter, then simply follow the directions to the right of the letter to find and call your Representative right now!

Poll

26 votes Show Results

Did you make the call?

26 votes Vote Now!

Did you make the call?

Yes! And my Representative said "Yes"!

9 votes

Yes, but my Representative said "No".

4 votes

Yes, but I got a non committal response.

6 votes

No! But my Representative is already a signer! WooHoo!

4 votes

No! My Rep is a Repugnican or other Tea Bagger so I didn't bother.

3 votes

Dems should pay attention to today's NPR poll

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Wednesday January 27, 2010 · 1:58 PM PST

2010/01/27 · 13:58

Following up after the PCCC's poll that showed pretty clearly that many Democrats looking to scale back health care overhaul ambitions are learning the wrong message from the Massachusetts vote, NPR conducted a bipartisan poll that shows many of the same issues.

Let's take a look at it. It's a refreshing story in that it's not looking at politicians' unscientific opinions about what the MA vote meant. Instead it looks at the underlying thoughts are in people's head right now that lead to the MA result - and what's been going through their heads in the last few months.

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Thursday January 21, 2010 · 12:00 PM PST

2010/01/21 · 12:00

Following onto my Health Care Reform diary from yesterday, I wrote my letter to my Representatives. I posted it as an open letter on Congress.org. And I thought I would post it hear too. I encourage you to just copy it and send it to your Democratic reps.

I wouldn't bother sending it to Repubs, since it's basically about the impact of HCR on 2010 Democratic election strategy. Plus, HCR has always been a line in the sand issue for Repubs. Their opposition is guaranteed.

Dems who are at the very least interested in self-preservation ought to be fighting even harder for reform with a public option. And if done right, the Massachusetts election doesn't make it any harder.

See the text of the letter in the body after the jump. It'll only take a couple of minutes to simply copy and paste it into a web form for your reps.

Oh, and please hit the Recommend Button in the sidebar to get more folks to see and copy this letter! -->

GeorgesMouth

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Wednesday January 20, 2010 · 4:28 PM PST

2010/01/20 · 16:28

So maybe we shouldn't be calling MA voters Massholes and things like that. They might have just finally taught Harry Reid an important lesson in all of this.

Check out this Harry Reid quote from the Wall Street Journal:

Mr. Reid said Wednesday that "reconciliation is one of the things we need to look at with the change in circumstances," but that "no decisions have been made."

Yes, Harry Reid finally said that reconciliation is on the table! And if reconciliation is on the table, the public option is on the table.

That makes me feel good about the public option and perhaps for November House/Senate races.

Read on after the jump ...

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Friday December 18, 2009 · 4:00 PM PST

2009/12/18 · 16:00

I just excitedly read Our-Past's excellent diary entry from yesterday and lit up. It was an exciting idea on how to quickly pass health care legislation and get the public option with it! And it'll work!

Basically, don't kill the bill. Use reconciliation for the public option. But don't use reconciliation for the industry reform part (basically the bill has already been stripped down to this point).

You can read Our Past's posting here.

Following the model of the multi-bill Compromise of 1850 should be just the trick here.

How would this work? It's as easy as 1-2-3. Take a look after the jump ...

GeorgesMouth

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Wednesday December 16, 2009 · 3:16 PM PST

2009/12/16 · 15:16

Simply put, Insurance Company Stooge Benedict Joe Lieberhoser appears to have single handedly killed both the public option and the Medicare buy in. But what remains for the bill?

Is the Office of Personel Management options still in there? If so, who would qualify to buy those plans?
What happened to Olympia Snowe? Is she still a potential replacement vote for Loserman?
Is it time to forget about 60 and go for reconciliation?
How do Blanche Lincoln, Baucus, Snowe, and Nelson compare with Liebertoast on the evil scale?
etc! etc!

The pace of rapid disemboweling of this bill is mind blowing. Every morning I wake up only to be bewildered by the latest news I hear on NPR. Anyone care to explain where the bill is now?

I can't believe the Democrats are about to piss away their majority! A history lesson is needed. The failure for Dems to rally around the Clinton health care reform bill was THE single issue that killed the Dems in the 1994 mid term elections. I can't believe they're about to let this happen again! We don't need another 12 years of republicans in the hen house.

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Thursday November 19, 2009 · 3:59 PM PST

2009/11/19 · 15:59

Short entry here. But this is pretty cool for those of us who aren't experts in the parliamentary rules of the US Senate. The Senator's office made available on their web site a short and sweet checklist explaining the remaining steps needed for passage of the Senate's Health Care bill.

Click here to take a look

The two major trouble points will be two cloture requiring 60 votes. The first cloture vote could be coming as early as tomorrow. Hopefully someone can put the screws on Joe Loserman or Olympia Snowe to get off their high horses and start caring about their constituents.

For those who don't want to be redirected to Senator Reid's site, I cut and pasted the checklist after the break ...

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