I've spent today trying to figure out any way to hurt Joe Liberman for being a traitor. I finally think I've found it.
Let's lobby the progressive block in the Senate to kill the mandate. That way insurance companies will be forced to accept everyone due to the removal of the pre-existing exclusion and won't be able to increase their profits through mandated insurance for healthy Americans. Therefore, millions of Americans will be able to wait until they are truly sick before buying insurance and the insurance companies will be forced to pay for all of those sick people.
This will truly hurt Joe Lieberman, since he loves insurance companies and their profits.
If Joe backs down and allows the public option opt-out in the bill, the mandate comes back in. If he doesn't, the mandate stays out and we pass a bill without a public option. I think he'll cave.
Here are the contact numbers for Progressive Senators:
Barbara Boxer
Email - http://boxer.senate.gov/...
Phone - (202) 224-3553
Fax - (202) 224-0454
Sherrod Brown
Email - http://brown.senate.gov/...
Phone - (202) 224-2315
Fax - (202) 228-6321
Ronald Burris
Email - http://burris.senate.gov/...
Phone - 202-224-2854
Fax - 202-228-3333
Chris Dodd
Email - http://dodd.senate.gov/...
Phone - (202) 224-2823
Fax - (202) 224-1083
Dick Durbin
Email - http://durbin.senate.gov/...
Phone - (202) 224-2152
Fax - (202) 228-0400
Al Franken
Email - http://franken.senate.gov/...
Phone - (202) 224-5641
Kirsten Gillibrand
Email - http://gillibrand.senate.gov/...
Phone -(202) 224-4451
Fax - (202) 228-0282
Tom Harkin
Email - http://harkin.senate.gov/...
Phone - (202) 224-3254
Fax - (202) 224-9369 Fax
John Kerry
Email - http://kerry.senate.gov/...
Phone - (202) 224-2742
Fax - (202) 224-8525
Patrick Leahy
Email - http://leahy.senate.gov/...
Phone - (202) 224-4242
Fax - (202) 224-3479
Jeff Merkley
Email - http://merkley.senate.gov/...
Phone - (202) 224-3753
Fax - (202) 228-3997
John Rockefeller
Email - http://rockefeller.senate.gov/...
Phone - (202) 224-6472
Fax - (202) 224-7665
Bernie Sanders
Email - http://sanders.senate.gov/...
Phone - (202) 224-5141
Fax - (202) 228-0776