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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 02:27 PM
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Jane Hamsher: Dear President Obama: Time to Stop Letting Corporations Write the Health Care Bill
Edited on Wed Jan-20-10 02:32 PM by kpete
Jane Hamsher

Founder, FireDogLake.com
Posted: January 20, 2010 10:53 AM

Dear President Obama: Time to Stop Letting Corporations Write the Health Care Bill

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Reports on the Death of Health Care Are Premature

In the wake of Martha Coakley's defeat, both Representative Barney Frank and Senator Jim Webb have said that jamming a health care bill through before Scott Brown can be seated is not the right thing to do. And they're right. Any attempt to do so will look like an effort to bypass the will of the public to facilitate a giant corporate giveaway.

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But many on the Hill are also saying that the Massachusetts defeat means that health care reform is dead, fearful that what happened to Martha Coakley will happen to them, too, in 2010.

That's about as feasible as Wile E. Coyote trying to turn around and run back across the bridge that is crumbling behind him. There's only one way to go.

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"The Democrats have less than 10 months to start governing as a people-powered party, or they will lose both the House and the Senate."

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The damage is done.

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Unless the Democrats move aggressively
to right the perception that they are the party of backroom deals
and massive corporate bailouts,
2010 will be more of the same.


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Step One:

FIRE LIEBERMAN


Stop Letting Joe Lieberman Run the Party


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more:
GO JANE!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-hamsher/dear-president-obama-time_b_429649.html
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