Mr. President, Embrace Progressive Principles as the lesson of this election

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1) Let the house vote down the Senate HCR bill
2) In place announce that you will expand Medicare & Medical Assistance Programs so that every man, woman & child without any health insurance can be covered.
3) To pay for this expansion tax insurance company excess profits.
4) Pass popular pieces of the current HCR bill such as outlawing insurance companies from declining coverage to people with pre-existing conditions and dare the GOP and Republicrats to fillibuster that.
5) Pass strong legislation controlling the excesses of Wall Street & Credit Card companies.
6) Most important, 2010 must be the year of "it's the economy, stupid" and unemployment at 10% is unacceptable and a strong jobs bill must be passed and followed up on.

You are a good man, Mr. President. Don't take these returns a sign you have to move further to the right. The problem with the current HCR bill is it's too complicated and people don't understand it. Make the issues crystal clear and let us define them rather than they defining us.

Good luck, Sir.