Bob Menendez is against single payer.....

[TheCoxwain]

I called up his office to seek support for single payer..

The person answering the phone was non-committal and said that the senator had no position as yet..

Why else would the senator not be open on this issue with so much support among democrats.


Didnt sound good...

[movonne]

1. The only reason anyone of these senators would not want it is

because they are corporate shills...

[rfranklin]

9. We have a concentration of pharma corporations in NJ....

I am sure they spread their bribes...er...campaign contributions all around the state.

[TheCoxwain]

10. Pharma companies will not be as affected by it as insurance companies

less profits - sure . But mass layoffs that will threaten his seat - Nah!




so what is he worried about exactly?

[movonne]

13. Look

:rofl:

[DJ13]

2. Many Senators treat their votes like a commodity

A commodity that is open for bidding.

[harun]

3. My Blue Dog rep says the same. He wrote me a letter back saying

they don't know what the reforms will be yet and was non-committal. Which is BS.

[tabbycat31]

4. I just got off the phone with his office

and I told the aide that as his constituent, I support single-payer and that a SP advocate should be added to the hearings tomorrow.

[bobburgster]

5. Nothing against calling to seek support, but

I wouldn't get my hopes up for a single payer system. It is not going to happen.

[TheCoxwain]

6. Why the fuck shouldnt it be an option?

[bobburgster]

12. Never said that..

it shouldn't be an option....god, I'd love to have it....but it is just not reasonable to expect congress to do away with all the insurance companies.

[newinnm]

7. The power has never been in the Whitehouse

The power has always always always been in the congress. Its distressing to me that so many people thought that putting one of us in the whitehouse was going to solve everything. Our agenda will pass when we have our people in the congress.

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[TheCoxwain]

8. The problems is that too much power in the white house attracts fucktards like Cheney

we will have to work with the system we have

[newinnm]

11. I dont believe the president should be super Powerful

How The congress will always be more responsive to the people than the president. No congress person can be elected with lett than 50% of the popular vote but a president can. What Im saying is that we all know that progressives make up more than 50% of the vote in every state. If we can get them out to vote and elect progressives then and only then can we get our agenda through.


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