Three Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee--Max Baucus, Kent Conrad, and Blanche Lincoln--voted against both public option amendments yesterday. Here is the contact information for all three, along with the bribes, excuse me, campaign contributions each has taken from the insurance industry they voted to protect:
Max Baucus ($1,196,463)
202-224-2651
E-mail
Kent Conrad ($838,787)
202-224-2043
E-mail
Blanche Lincoln ($504,383)
202-224-2843
E-mail
While we're at it, and since it does those of us in Texas absolutely no good to contact our Senators on this matter, let's give some words of thanks and encouragement to Jay Rockefeller and Charles Schumer for their efforts on behalf of the public option.
Jay Rockefeller
202-224-6072
E-mail
Charles Schumer
202-224-6542
E-mail
Speaking of Sen. Rockefeller, there's a great piece on him at The New Republic today. A short excerpt:
"... Rockefeller gets something better than almost anybody I've seen--something he's expressed in interviews and, most recently, during this weeks hearings of the Senate Finance Committee. It's how everyday people, particularly those without a lot of money, interact with the health care system. It's easy to treat health care as an abstraction--to make it all about economic theories and Congressional Budget Office projections. Rockefeller sees it through the eyes of West Virginians making $30,000 a year--people who just want to know they can pay their premiums and that, if they do, the insurance they get will protect them when they get sick."
If only we had more Jay Rockefeller's and fewer (or better yet, no) Baucus', Conrad's, or Lincoln's in the United States Senate.
Max Baucus ($1,196,463)
202-224-2651
Kent Conrad ($838,787)
202-224-2043
Blanche Lincoln ($504,383)
202-224-2843
While we're at it, and since it does those of us in Texas absolutely no good to contact our Senators on this matter, let's give some words of thanks and encouragement to Jay Rockefeller and Charles Schumer for their efforts on behalf of the public option.
Jay Rockefeller
202-224-6072
Charles Schumer
202-224-6542
Speaking of Sen. Rockefeller, there's a great piece on him at The New Republic today. A short excerpt:
"... Rockefeller gets something better than almost anybody I've seen--something he's expressed in interviews and, most recently, during this weeks hearings of the Senate Finance Committee. It's how everyday people, particularly those without a lot of money, interact with the health care system. It's easy to treat health care as an abstraction--to make it all about economic theories and Congressional Budget Office projections. Rockefeller sees it through the eyes of West Virginians making $30,000 a year--people who just want to know they can pay their premiums and that, if they do, the insurance they get will protect them when they get sick."
If only we had more Jay Rockefeller's and fewer (or better yet, no) Baucus', Conrad's, or Lincoln's in the United States Senate.
Shall we say several years, my grandpa remarked......
"This damned inflation. I remember when you could buy a United States Senator for $50,000
There listening to what the American Citizensare saying. Most do not want this plan... it is just plain not good. Just 41% of voters nationwide now favor the health care reform proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s down two points from a week ago and the lowest level of support yet measured. - Rasmussen Poll from 9/28.
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Editor's note: Rasmussen is a shill for the GOP. Always favors GOP issues. His polls are good for one thing...toilet paper. Average national polls are more reliable. Even after the insurance industry, using teabaggers as pawns, dumped over $50 million in a propaganda campaign savaging both Obama and health care reform, we are essentially split with 48.4% against to 44.5% for. If you take out Rasmussen, which is crap, then it swings even more towards favoring health care.
http://www.pollster.com/polls/us/healthplan.php#
Indeed, the NY Times/CBS News poll showed 51% favored govt option vs.40% opposed. Rasmussen is in the same class as Fox Noise. Publishers of bullshit.
Jefe
Damn......where is Donald Segretti when you need him?
I wish I could say I am surprised, but how many times has huge corporations screwed us over by bribing our elected officials?
You may be short in stature, but you are a giant in my book shortstuff.
I have emailed each of them. Basically asking them, "how does it feel to be a paid whore for the insurance industry, and knowing that you've sold your fellow Americans down the river for thirty pieces of silver?"
I told each that there are too many Americans who are uninsured or underinsured.
Oh yeah....I told these idiots that they weren't fit to be given the same title that Sen. Kennedy held and he would be turning over in his grave.
And that they are all lying pieces of shit.