Sherrod Brown has come out with some pretty strong language in an interview he gave today over at TPM. It's great to see a progressive in the Senate giving the White House the what for!
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/...
Emphasis mine.
"The most important thing is the public option," Brown said. "I don't know for sure if I would support it with out a public option but it would be hard to get there.... We're not going through this to write some namby pamby bill so we can check a box and say we did health care reform."
Nice to see that the senator gets it. How unbelievably infuriating it will be if we get a watered-down, junk bill and then have to listen to Rahm tell us how it's a "victory." Yes, let's give the American people a nice, big glass of urine on the rocks and call it the most delicious lemonade they done ever tasted!
"If the insurance companies are satisfied with this bill it's not a good bill," Brown said. "It's clear that if the major interest groups line up for this bill it's not doing what it's supposed to go." [sic]
Huzzah! Tell it, brother!
Did you hear that over at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave? The idea here is not to make sure the murder-by-spreadsheet industry is kept really profitable at the expense of the American taxpayer. The point is to provide quality, affordable coverage, which is done best with a public option.
If the insurance companies like what's produced, it can only mean one thing: bailout for millionaires, yet again. And, naturally, that bailout will be done at the expense of you and me.
Let's hear a few more senators say something along these lines!
Oh, and here's another choice quote:
"The White House should not take progressives for granted," an animated Brown told me. "It's not just the conservatives he needs to be in the fold. It's the progressives who've been in the vineyards fighting for reform for years."
Cross-posted at Docudharma.