Are you unfit to exist ? The health insurance boardrooms break down the criteria like this. The healthy & wealthy get a pass. But, if you have a pre- existing condition,terminal illness or are disabled you will be denied benefits. This is corporate eugenics. Where matters of fiscal and physical fitness are arbitrarily decided. And death follows denied,stamped on your claim form.
Pretty heady stuff playing God in these boardrooms.

Blue Dogs and New Democrats are Political Conservative sophists and whatever they say will be the exact opposite of liberal.  When they say they are fiscal conservative, check and see if they are politicians; if they are politicians, then they are political conservatives, ALL political conservatives are FAR RIGHT EXTREMISTS, whatever they say; CONSERVATIVE is the Right and LIBERAL is the Left.  With the exception of Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal, on PBS, all the political talk shows on television are Right-Wingers and Right-Winger’s Democrats, which makes it easy for Right-Wing Conservative EXTREMIST Republicans to denigrate, accuse, condemn, and denounce liberals, and a liberal agenda that would be beneficial for the greater majority.

DBM:
‘If ever there was an issue for the progressive caucus to show that they have some sort of influence and spine, this is it.

Get everything they can possibly get with a 1 vote margin….’

I don’t think they can get anything.  If Mr. O were a Lyndon Johnson type and really interested, he would have been busy doing horse trading with the Blue Dogs to overcome their hesitations about his proposal, which incidentally would be one page long, not 1000 pages.  (He would have written off the Republicans right away.  He had 60 votes in the Senate.)  If that’s been going on, I haven’t heard about it.

The progs’ choice is to go along with nothing—to keep issuing free passes—or to refuse to go along and promise to make the matter a major issue in 2010 and 2012.

If ever there was an issue for the progressive caucus to show that they have some sort of influence and spine, this is it.

Get everything they can possibly get with a 1 vote margin but don’t close the door on more reform in the next few years.  There has been no compromise on anything from the Right in years (negotiating only after getting “pre-conditions” you know!).  There should be not one iota of compromise on this one from the progressives.

Cut the BS and vote.

The health care industry owns that guy—lock, stock, and cash register.

Blue Dog (Def.) “A coward. A scoundrel. A thief in the night. A republican by another name.”

The “opposition” to single payer and public option is
not reasoned argument. What we hear is astroturf
bullshit and “no” and “I can’t vote for that.”
This isn’t debate it is bullying. Screw the opposition
go for single payer, fix our crappy death machine
health system and let the bastards live without the
massive bribes from insurance and pharmacutical
companies. If they can’t ever get elected again tough.
The project is better health care for Americans.
Or is lack of a spine holding us back?

A public option (in fact, actually, Single Payer) is probably the most popular product the progs have to offer.  So if they want to threaten a split, this is it.

I’m 55 years old. I’ve been voting Democrat ever since I cast my first vote for Jerry Brown, for governor of California, the first year 18 year olds were given the right to vote. I still love Jerry Brown, but I have not loved the Democrats for a long time. I’ve just been voting for them because I despise the Republicans so much. That’s not a good enough reason anymore. If they ever want my vote again, they better pass health care reform with a public option, and they better start bringing the troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan. Continuing the war and passing health care reform without a public option are both deal killers, and as far as I’m concerned, I’ve already said goodbye. They can sink or swim on their own, now….