Do you think that there are 51 non-corporatist in the Senate?

[mdmc]

This website http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/ http://whipcongress.com/ claims that there were enough votes to pass hcr with a public option.

Do you really believe that there are 51 non-corporatist in the Senate? If so, why didn't we (the Dems) pass the public option?

[ixion]

1. I believe there are 0 non-corporatists in the Senate.

Zip. Zilch. Nada.

[mdmc]

3. I disagree

I have full and complete faith in H. Bernie Sanders. I really think he is a stand up guy.

[ixion]

7. I would say he's better than most, for sure

but I also think it is literally impossible to get to that position without favoring one corporation or another.

[MineralMan]

8. Ya know, this country is not all that friendly for folks with that

opinion. It's a constant source of frustration and despair if you hold that belief. I'm surprised you can stand living in such a place.

[ixion]

11. I can't stand living in such a place, if you must know

and am doing everything in my power to extricate my self from said 'place' as quickly as possible, I assure you.

[MineralMan]

13. Is there any way I could possibly help to hurry that along?

I stand at the ready.

[ixion]

14. Send money

thanks. :)

[MineralMan]

15. Ah, that I cannot do. I have too little of it at present to

spend on others' idle fantasies. I have a large health insurance payment to make. Thankfully, it is my last before my Medicare Effective Date.

Do, please, let me know, however, if there is anything non-monetary I can do to hasten your exit from this nation you hate so.

[ixion]

16. LOL... I was being facetious, of course

and would never accept such a donation.

It's not the nation that I hate. It's all the zealots.

[MineralMan]

17. "'Tis easy to recognize a zealot if you're of that bent..."

Someone famous said that, I think.

[DJ13]

2. why didn't we (the Dems) pass the public option?

Because Obama didnt want it to be included in the final bill.

It would have undermined his back room deal with the insurance industry to keep it out.

[DevonRex]

5. That post belongs in the 9-11 room. nt

[DJ13]

9. Its been verified by many sources

Sorry if you dont read enough to recognize the truth when somebody posts it.

[DevonRex]

12. Oh, right. That NYT piece that used reporters as sources. Newsflash:

NYT said there were WMD in Iraq. NYT had to retract its Acorn story. Good grief.

[frebrd]

10. +1

[napi21]

4. No I don't! I'm with Nancy. I don''t trust the Senate to do

what they promise...in writing or not!

[MarjorieG]

6. Think willingness was overstated, and possible House wouldn't have been able to send fix.

Lots more volatile, endangering to actual first step.