Incredibly Joe Trippi Buys Into the Blue Dog Message on the Public Option!

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Monday September 07, 2009 · 7:22 AM PDT

2009/09/07 · 07:22

How disappointing! Joe Trippi was very weak on the Public option.

Trippi, barely even mentioned the Public Option in yesterday's State of The Union on CNN. Instead, he let Ed Rollins take the lead, setting the stage for the Public Option as something that should be given up for unity among Democrats.

Worse, Trippi pretty much echoed that by advocating the "Something is better than Nothing" approach.

I had so expected him to vigorously defend the need for a robust Public Option, just like his former boss Howard Dean has done. Trippi almost completely avoided talking about the Public Option as a must, and it was absolutely shocking!

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Trippi only mentioned the Public option toward the end of the interview in the context of Obama's possible plan to include, what is it again.... a trigger for the Public option! Outrageous!!!

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Wednesday March 18, 2009 · 8:46 PM PDT

2009/03/18 · 20:46

The reason I wanted to get into Natasha's case some more, is because I found a dangerous mis-conception in the comment of a ski-patroller in another diary about Natasha's accident. This is what he states:

I'm a Ski Patroller, and we take head injuries, no matter how apparently minor, quite seriously. Any time someone hits their head and can't immediately answer (and subsequently re-answer a few minutes later to check for degradation of their condition) some basic questions as to name, location(name of resort), day of week, and time of day (all must be answered correctly every time they're asked), we put them on a backboard and have them taken to a hospital for further evaluation - resort and patrol policy.

This is a reminder of how important these kinds of injuries are.

Any time you see someone take a fall (at home, in a bar, wherever) and they hit their head, ask them to repeat the answers to those questions...if they can't answer all four correctly, call an ambulance. Period.

WRONG,.......please follow me below the fold.

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Friday March 06, 2009 · 2:03 PM PST

2009/03/06 · 14:03

For 100 million Americans suffering from devastating, incurable and often deadly conditions it's a Dream come true.

One of those is my son Jason, who became paralysed at age 7 after colliding with another player during a soccer game.

Like Michael J Fox, we did everything we could to promote the need for federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.

Now it will finally come to pass! We couldn't be more thrilled!!

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Saturday April 26, 2008 · 12:54 PM PDT

2008/04/26 · 12:54

Dear fellow progressives:
May I please have a moment of your time to tell you about an exciting Congressional race in Florida?

I'm Faye Armitage in Fruit Cove, FL, and I'm running to represent Florida's 7th Congressional District, which stretches in six counties, from the Jacksonville/Duval County line to Orlando. I've already driven some 18,000 miles and worn out two pairs of shoes getting nearly 6,000 petitions signed, meeting voters who tell me they're ready for change, from City Hall to the White House to Congress.

Republicans thought they had successfully gerrymandered Florida's Seventh Congrssional District, but Charlie Cook's rating and other campaign polls show a Democrat can win here, which would also help the entire Democratic ticket in Northeast Florida.

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Monday November 05, 2007 · 6:43 PM PST

2007/11/05 · 18:43

For those of you still clinging to the thought that New Jersey might come through for human embryonic stem cell research, here is more evidence that the New Jersey Program is NOT about embryonic stem cell research at all:

Moore and her husband, Ihor Lemischka, now director of the Black Family Stem Cell Institute at Mt. Sinai, recently left Princeton University after nearly two decades. "We were concerned with the direction that the New Jersey effort was headed, and the lack of prominent stem cell biologists in New Jersey."

http://www.the-scientist.com/...

Ihor Lemischka was the ONLY 2006 NJ grant recipient for hESCR out of 17 grants awarded that year, yet he has chosen to leave for NY after nearly two decades in New Jersey.

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Thursday November 01, 2007 · 11:14 AM PDT

2007/11/01 · 11:14

I am convinced that what is happening in New Jersey will keep my son in his wheelchair longer than necessary.

For years, I thought the pro-lifers were at fault, but now the "establishment" pro-hESCR ( human embryonic stem cell research) folks have joined them.

Please pass this message on to Michael J. Fox.

Clearly we are very much being misled in New Jersey by establishment Democrats.

How am I going to tell my son, we've been used, exploited, to build up the positive message of hESCR, to instead garner $$$ for adult stem cell research in New Jersey?

My son Jason, was only 7 years old when he became paralyzed from the nose down after colliding with another soccer player. While his four sisters' lives have moved forward, now at age 17, Jason is feeling terribly left behind.

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Monday October 29, 2007 · 8:40 AM PDT

2007/10/29 · 08:40

I know you are tired from yet another sleepless night, because you live the life of two, caring for a chronically ill loved one 24/7.

That is also the reason it is so easy to be deceived by the false promises of politicians like Corzine.

Check out his FULL support for human embryonic stem cell research when he ran for office: http://www.corzineforgovernor.com/...

I pledge to join Jon Corzine in working to make New Jersey the leader in embryonic stem cell research.

How easy it is to get swept up by the thought that New Jersey is funding embryonic stem cell research,..........but wait.......

New Jersey might just be using patients as props in their efforts to get tax payer funding for adult stem cell research instead.

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Tuesday October 16, 2007 · 3:49 PM PDT

2007/10/16 · 15:49

You've probably heard of the $450 million Bond issue in New Jersey that will be voted on in 21 days, right?

You probably also know by now that I am a very active embryonic stem cell research activist with no ties to corporatism. It is therefor that I come to you to warn you that the pro-embryonic stem cell research hype in NJ is just that: HYPE!

While all of us were thinking the BLUE state of New Jersey would come through for us, an adult stem cell researcher by the name of Dr. Young and others including Assemblyman Neil Cohen(D) have led new Jersey heavily into Adult Stem Cell Research, while touting embryonic stem cell research at every opportunity they get.

So far in New Jersey Adult Stem Cell Research vs Embryonic Stem Cell Research has been funded 9 to 1. Why trust them to do better for embryonic Stem Cell Research with the tax payer dollars they hope to get their hands on if the $450 million bond issue passes in 21 days?

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23 votes Show Results

Knowing that New Jersey is Neglecting hESCR will you still vote Yes on the $450 million bond issue?

23 votes Vote Now!

Knowing that New Jersey is Neglecting hESCR will you still vote Yes on the $450 million bond issue?

10 votes

YES

8 votes

I Don't Care

5 votes

SiCKO and the "Capitalism is Best" Folly in Healthcare

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Wednesday July 11, 2007 · 4:49 AM PDT

2007/07/11 · 04:49

The Incredible inefficiency of the private market.

Bet you didn't expect an economist like myself to say this about the private market running our health care system, but Sicko makes it abundantly clear that the market system fails us in providing our population the most inexpensive and high quality care that you'd expect from a free market based system.

That's because basic healthcare never was meant to be a consumer good but rather it has always been a common good as evidenced by other market based industrialized nations which uniformly provide universal healthcare to their citizens.

Below the fold I'll explain how to debunk the "market based is better" talking point fed to us courtesy of the insurance and pharmaceutical industry.

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Friday June 29, 2007 · 11:10 AM PDT

2007/06/29 · 11:10

Hope For Alex

Watch this video:

Bush's supreme bullsh*t on stem cell research has got to stop. Bush's policies insist on a lifetime of misery or death for the sake of religious and moral zealots clinging to control.

I found some very targeted words from JFK to inspire us to break away from Bush and his enablers' deliberate and deadly nonsense in obstructing embryonic stem cell research.

Let's go back to a time when leadership and vision still meant something.

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Monday June 25, 2007 · 5:54 AM PDT

2007/06/25 · 05:54

Many complaints have been made in past diaries pointing to little difference between democrats and republicans in policy making, because of their corporate ties.

So I bet few will be shocked to hear about the ploys used by democrats in New Jersey to paint their state as an embryonic stem cell research friendly state.

Just like the MSM buys into Bush's claim that he's the first president to fund embryonic stem cell research, they are just as happy to make out New Jersey is funding significant amounts of embryonic stem cell research, while quite the opposite is actually true.

Media Matters has an excellent piece setting the MSM straight on Bush's truthiness in stating that he's the first president to fund embryonic stem cell research.

Now, let's delve into how the democrats in New Jersey are mimicking Bush,........playing a dirty game of pretending to be an embryonic stem cell research friendly state with help from the MSM.

Poll

23 votes Show Results

Will you make Embryonic Stem Cell Research a Priority in Your Activism?

23 votes Vote Now!

Will you make Embryonic Stem Cell Research a Priority in Your Activism?

Yes, and I will not accept just Lip Service given to ESCR

19 votes

I will accept Lip Service to ESCR only from democrats, while monies go to ASCR

0 votes

Any posturing on ESCR from democrats or republicans is fine with me.

1 vote

Other Science issues interest me more

3 votes

Wrong Answer, Dr. Morrone! In Woman Dies on Floor of ER

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Friday June 15, 2007 · 11:51 AM PDT

2007/06/15 · 11:51

The CNN reporter Heidi Collins got it right when she responded to Dr Morrone's answer:

COLLINS: Yes, understood. What should happen to this hospital staff? We do know that the chief medical officer and one nurse were fired, and we also know, of course, that the investigation is continuing. What should happened here?

MORRONE: I see the federal government using what they like to use as the big stick -- fines. When they look at a hospital, they say you get so much Medicare and Medicaid money, and that's all federal payment for your services, that they withhold the payment as a penalty, and I wouldn't put it past somebody to say, oh by the way, everything that you billed us in 2005 and 2006, we want it all back. You've hit them where it hurts.

COLLINS: Well, unfortunately, the people who are hurt the most then is that community where this may be the only medical facility where they can seek treatment.

Edith Isabel Rodriguez's preventable death while begging for help in the ER, brought back our own gut wrenching memories, of when I took my then 7 year old son to the ER ten years ago, only to experience the same type of devastating neglect, which left him in coma six hours later.

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