I am FED up with Baucus and the Blue Dogs in Congress. We helped get them a majority in the House and Senate in the past 5 years. We had a huge impact on getting a Democrat in the White House and what do we get for all of our time, effort and money? A big, fat spit in the face. We don't pay their bills, so they don't have to listen to us. It is easy to see where the these vermin sit on the issue. The ones taking the biggest handout from the industries are opposed to a public option. It's all about the money!
I'm a working stiff who makes too much money to get help with insurance but too poor to afford the $12,000 a year insurance would cost for our family. Both my wife and I have pre-existings with hers being a chronic disease. We had insurance for a number of years, but the premiums just got too high. So, we worked to get Democrats and Obama elected so we could see things change for the better. In the last 2 elections we ditched our republican congressman and our republican senator. I don't expect much for my effort, just that my representatives will do what is right. If a public option is good enough for these bastards, then why can't we have one?
Money! That's why. I don't have enough to buy a congressman. Quite a few people I know are ready to march on Washington to show how much we care about this issue. Sadly, I think it would be a waste of time. Look at how many marched before the Iraq war. Nobody gave a damn. We need to do something that hits home for them. MONEY! That is what matters to them.
These people need serious primary challengers with money. Looking at a diary from earlier today jumping the shark I see that there are 1.5 million visitors a month to DKos. How many of us gave money to Obama? I bet thousands, probably tens of thousands of us did, maybe a hundred thousand did. We have more Democrats, it has done us no good. We NEED better Democrats! We need to primary some of these Democrats. There are readers here from every district in the country. I bet there are people here that would be willing to run but know that they don't have a chance because they don't have the wallet for it.
I think that we can change that. With 1.5 million visitors, if just a small percentage of us were willing to donate to just a few challengers, we could fund them and kick out a few of these corrupt cowards. That is what they need to see to change their behavior. I would suggest that we take a poll to find who we feel are the 3 worst offenders. Once we pick the 3, we set up a way to pledge to donate to them. If each Kossack pledged $10 to 3 challengers, it would only cost $30 each. If 100,00 of us stepped up, that would be $1,000,000 for each race. Imagine the press coverage if we funded primary challengers to the tune of $1 million a piece.
OK, who would be willing to pledge $30 to kick the bums out?