Here they are, the Infamous Five (really GOPers in sheep's clothing):
Sen. Max
Sens. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.)
Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.)
Sen. Kent Clueless Conrad (D-N.D.)
and Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.)
As HuffPo reports, there were predictable eruptions of idiocy during SFC's deliberations:
Republican senators argued that the public option would bankrupt the country and lead to a single-payer system.* "Government is not a competitor. Government is a predator," said Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa).**
Yet the GOP also defended Medicare, which Democrats took pains to point out was a government-run plan.
Sen. Rockefeller is not daunted by today's defeat. As he told HuffPo, "The public option is on the march," a view echoed by Robert Reich in his recent blog post.So let's do our civic duty and deluge our representatives' offices, again, with e-mails, phone calls and faxes, to make sure that PO stays alive and we won't have to resort to a single prayer option for our health care needs.
*Like it's a bad thing.
**I've been sayin', it's time to pull the plug on Chuck.
Cross-posted at The Middle of Nowhere.
3 COMMENTS:
I'm not a Ronald Regan fan but if he said this, I agree:
I used to say that politics was the second-oldest profession. I have come to know that it bears a gross similarity to the first.
RONALD REAGAN
I've been hounding Blanche Lincoln like a dog so I will have not an iota of a snails ass nth of hesitation to continue to do so. What the hell is wrong with these people in general and these particular democrats not doing what is right?
They will certainly pay come election, unless they end up pulling their heads out of their ass in time to save the public option.
Chimp,
If he said it, it was the most honest thing he ever said.
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