President Obama - Lead!

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Saturday September 05, 2009 · 8:07 PM PDT

2009/09/05 · 20:07

You campaigned claiming that you would resist Washington Lobbyists. This whole debate about health care is lobbyists versus the American people.

If there's a health care trigger, fast forward to 2014. The GOP has a majority and they raise the %, so it's impossible for the public option to kick in in. what that means is that the one chance Americans had for health care reform was wasted.

It's not that the progressives are one extreme in this debate and the conservatives another. It's that the progressive side stands for real health care reform, the GOP and Blue Dogs, for the status quo.

Real leaders are resisted and resisted, but ultimately respected and reelected. Please lead on this one. We need COMPETITION to the health insurance industry. You're the one to do it.

If you try to "go easy," thinking that will help you get energy, or Supremes, you'll see that he who compromises is compromised. We're all behind you. Please give the American people what 70% want.

The Real Problem with the Trigger

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Friday September 04, 2009 · 6:44 AM PDT

2009/09/04 · 06:44

I just read about how the trigger would work. There would be, in effect, a public option, but it would only kick in, state by state, if the insurance industry doesn't meet income-related benchmarks. So, for example, for someone making $50,000, insurance costs will need to be less than, say, 8% of their income. If not, those people can buy public-based insurance.

The problem with the trigger: It's 2015. The GOP has managed to get control of Congress. (And yes, it will happen eventually. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day). In Pennsylvania the trigger is going to activate the public option, because people earning $50,000 have to pay more than 8% ($4000) per year for insurance.

But just then, surprise, surprise, the GOP Congress raises the benchmark to 10% for that income group.

What then? G o o d b y e t r i g g e r.
Hello, old system.

It just won't work. It won't give the insurance industry real competition over time. It's a sham.

Barack - Do It for the Tea Partiers

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Thursday September 03, 2009 · 10:22 AM PDT

2009/09/03 · 10:22

Because they too will benefit from a public option, though they're too stupid to know it in advance.

I know you want to be a historic president. The way to do that is to break the vice grip that the health insurance industry has on this country.

Health care is the most important thing you'll do. You said during the campaign that you were going to eliminate special interests in Washington. You said it so many times I thought it was just a political ploy. But insurance and pharma are the biggest special interests.

Now's the time to show us who you are.

DemMajorityJohn

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Monday August 31, 2009 · 2:55 PM PDT

2009/08/31 · 14:55

America is a democracy and that means we have to try to represent as many people as possible. As we know, a big part of the American public are so stupid that it's a wonder how they manage to get out of bed in the morning and dress themselves.

Those are the ones who, though we pay significantly more than every other country for healthy care, have been persuaded to go to rallies and say "Don't take the current health care system away from us!"

God Bless them. Soon they'll forget how to put their keys in the door and will be spending the night of their front porches--like socialists do.

Can Someone Help Me Understand?

DemMajorityJohn

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Wednesday August 05, 2009 · 3:58 PM PDT

2009/08/05 · 15:58

In the health care debate, Dems talk about health care that will keep insurers from denying coverage, health care you'll keep even if you change jobs, and health care that will cover pre-existing conditions.

But what I don't understand: Without a public option, can't the insurers just pass along the costs of insuring everyone (and the rest of it) to the public? So if health care premiums are going up 10% a year now, when they insure everyone and can't deny coverage for pre-existing, won't they just raise premiums by, say, 20% a year?

So what's the point?
Without a public option, it's a joke, isn't it?

New Health Care Mantra - The Medicare Script

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Monday August 03, 2009 · 7:46 PM PDT

2009/08/03 · 19:46

It's been said before but should be Obama's and the Left's mantra:

Imagine if you could have Medicare at 55. Would you want it?

What about Medicare at 45?

And 35?

Etc.

That's a better metaphor than Public Option. Obama used it once, I believe. I would love if all the players could say it again and again, as there are some (idiots) in America who don't realize Medicare is public.

Have I Been Here Before?

DemMajorityJohn

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Wednesday July 29, 2009 · 3:27 PM PDT

2009/07/29 · 15:27

During the presidency of Bill Clinton, the Right tried to render him ineffective by a CONSTANT series of investigations. It started with Whitewater, a real estate deal that happened 20 years earlier, and Clinton was never proved to have done anything wrong. The papers wrote about it for years. Finding nothing, the Right moved its way to a "scandal" when Hillary fired members at the White House travel office (ooooh) ('Travelgate'), then some FBI files which were wrongly disguarded (Filegate) and it FINALLY landed on Monica Lewinsky, which got some traction--see: impeachment. In the interim, Clinton got creamed in the first midterm election.

Now the Right is doing the same thing to Obama. Their goal: Every day the media talks about where he was born or whether he's racist (gee, I guess he hated his white mother) is a day we aren't thinking about health care. I know this isn't a scientific revelation. You know it already. But I ask Obama Nation to keep the faith and, as my name implies, to vote against these fuckers for a generation.

Concert for the Public Option

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Tuesday July 28, 2009 · 7:57 AM PDT

2009/07/28 · 07:57

If you hear this message wherever you stand.
Calling every woman, calling every man

The public option is slipping away due to the corruption and ignorance of Democrats in the Senate Finance Committee as well as the GOP, so we call on:

John Legend
Jon Bon Jovi
Bruce Springsteen
John Mellencamp
Any others...

to give a concert to raise money for public option ads, or a tour to resurrect the energy and momentum to solve this health care crisis.

DemMajorityJohn

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Thursday July 09, 2009 · 2:34 PM PDT

2009/07/09 · 14:34

Montage of GOP several politicians saying the same thing

"The Dems want to put a bureaucrat between you and your doctor."

Announcer:

But Republicans want you to have an insurance company bureaucrat between you and your doctor.

Montage of Americans asking Ins Co Bureaucrat:

--My daughter/son needs an operation. Can she have it?
Ins. Co Bureaucrat: No.

DemMajorityJohn

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Wednesday April 15, 2009 · 5:41 PM PDT

2009/04/15 · 17:41

This has probably been covered already and excuse the sound byte diary, but why not have Democrats make the simple case that taxes pay for things.

Radical, no?

For example, if you say you support the troops--and God knows the GOP spends lots of time supporting the troops--taxes pay for their equipment.

If you want the government to keep the country safe, taxes pay for the equipment and personnel of DHS.

Shouldn't our side be making the argument that patriots pay their bills--i.e. pay for the government's expenses--and that the tea bag philosophy is actually a continuation of the Bush mentality of not paying our bills. I heard ed start to get at this, but I'd like to see it emphasized

Warren, One of the Lizard People? With poll.

DemMajorityJohn

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Tuesday December 23, 2008 · 3:45 PM PST

2008/12/23 · 15:45

When I was little there was a guy who lived down the block, Warren. He wasn't really a good guy. Wasn't really a bad guy. Just a guy. & Warren, who's asked to give the invocation or whatever it is, has the same name. I wonder if it's him.

Not only that, every fundamentalist thinks that Obama's Muslim. Now they'll know he's not--and when Obama starts changing the world, and their fears start, and they turn into Limbaugh-listening Kenn Starr-missing prosecutors, actually...they won't. Because this will erase their fears. The cost: 1 (one) superficial gesture.

Also, what % of fundamentalists are now Dems? I believe the young ones are all about poverty more than the b.s. GOP issues. This is a painless way to pave the way for change. Trust O.

Poll

112 votes Show Results

When Warrren steps up to the podium

112 votes Vote Now!

When Warrren steps up to the podium

He'll be meek and perform the task with grace

38 votes

He'll reveal himself to be one of the Lizard People

74 votes

Shout out to Big Oil and Big Insurance

DemMajorityJohn

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Saturday December 13, 2008 · 7:14 PM PST

2008/12/13 · 19:14

The pathetic GOP is launching this pathetic web ad tomorrow.

The goal, start to cast suspicion on Obama, incrementally, before he can pass energy or health. Big oil and big insurance want to make it so Obama is unable to pass legislation. Gee-maybe Obama once also talked to Monica Lewinsky? Is America dumb enough to listen?

And...how should Obama react?
My idea: Someone in the DNC should point out that this is a sore loser strategy. They lost the Senate and are trying to cry over this IL seat, Obama's old seat.

Poll

25 votes Show Results

How does Obama respond?

25 votes Vote Now!

How does Obama respond?

Back to the campaign style-- calling out the GOP for being dinosaurs

21 votes

Suck up cause they want you to rise to the fight, and you may need their votes

1 vote

Third strategy that I haven't thought of but you'll post below

3 votes

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President Obama - Lead!

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Can Someone Help Me Understand?

New Health Care Mantra - The Medicare Script

Have I Been Here Before?

Concert for the Public Option

Won't Someone Please Make This "Public Option" Ad?

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Warren, One of the Lizard People? With poll.

Shout out to Big Oil and Big Insurance