As we saw during the vote in the House of Representatives, anti-choice groups were lobbying hard to pass it. But, the Senate agreed with us this time: eliminating choice for millions of women with private health insurance is a price we can’t afford to pay for passing health reform.
More good news: {Senators Kirk and Kerry} voted with us to defeat this amendment. Will you take just a moment to say thanks? Legislators hear from us so often before a vote – hearing from us after, saying thank you, really matters. It only takes a moment.
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p>Bye-bye public option.
Like we really didn’t know this wasn’t coming. At first I resigned myself to the trigger, but soon I realized that we needed to get 2 of the three between:
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p>Nelson would fillibuster without his amendment and Lieberman and Snowe would join the bloc w/o dropping the public option. Something had to cave and it turned out to be the public option. This bill should get at least 60 now if not 61 or 62. If you’re not going to have a public option, might as well work with those who weren’t going to support one and try and get more Republicans on board. Normally I wouldn’t care, but progressives aren’t getting what we want for the sake of passing something, so lets get this as bipartisan as possible to save face at least.
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p>To pass nothing is no longer an option and the bill still does does some good.
is negotiating to get cost containment and other improvements in exchange for the public option. It has to be good enough to overcome the pledge 40 congressmen took to vote “no” if there is no public option. We’ll see what the deal looks like. Part of it may include making medicare available to the 50 – 65 age group.
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p>Jay Rockefeller is well informed and a good negotiator and he’s got four good partners in Schumer, Whitehouse and the other two liberal Dems.
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p>Who wants to go to CT to primary Lieberman, NE to primary Nelson, AK to primary Lincoln, and LA to primary Landrieu?
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p>God I hate Joe Lieberman (I-Aetna)
You did once, and got Lamont, who lost to Lieberman in the general. There IS no ‘independent’ primary, is there?
Shouldn’t you be celebrating Scott Brown’s victory over at RMG?
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p>The Progressive Change Campaign Committee needs to raise $70,000 to air this ad in Connecticut and DC. We’re almost there – $56,587 raised – can you chip in $5?
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p>Sign here, or sign and chip in: http://allaboutjoe.org/
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go for reconciliation with a good bill. Then Lieberman, Snowe, and the Blue Dogs can pound sand.