Members of Congress who vote against health care reform should lose their seats.

[ProSense]

That is all.

[IndianaGreen]

Members of Congress that side with the corporations against the workers should lose their seats

Should we mention the ones that voted against the importation of cheaper drugs from Canada?

[Dinger]

3. Fucking Hell, What's Going On Here? Is This Really DU???

Fucking breathtaking shit. Holy hell.

[ProSense]

8. Bernie Sanders, Socialist, supports this bill. n/t

[IndianaGreen]

12. Good for Bernie, but he is not in the House

and it is the House that must choose between the horrible Senate bill, or stick to what is right and insist on a Public Option.

[ProSense]

15. "must choose between the horrible Senate bill" that Bernie Sanders supports.

No excuses for Kucinich voting against the bill.

[IndianaGreen]

18. Without a Public Option, we will never break the health insurance monopoly

[ProSense]

20. Really? Do you remember

this and this?

[denimgirly]

41. Huh? A strong Public Option is the very least that is Needed.

Single Payer is inevitably what america NEEDS but if the baby step is a form of public option that instills some kind of competition then this is the route to go towards SP...anything less than this is just pathetic giveaways to corporations.

[AnOhioan]

19. Except his conscience....knowing why he is in DC

to look after his constituents interests.

[SoxFan]

1. That includes divas like Kucinich

[IndianaGreen]

4. At least he is not kissing the asses of Big Pharma and Big Health Insurance

like apparently some people around here think we must all do.

[Dinger]

7. We Don't Always Agree IG, But On this I Can See We Do

Thank you for that.

[SoxFan]

31. If HCR loses by a vote, there's blood on Kucinich's hands

Tell me how dingle payer passes the Senate. I'd love to hear the scenario.

The Obama plan, while not perfect, if a huge step in the right direction. If Kucinich is willing to let thousands of people suffer because they can't obtain insurance due to a "pre-existing condition", he's a repulsive, egotistical slug.

[denimgirly]

37. You should be an Insurance Company Spokesperson.

I'm sure you'll fit in with the similar message given by their lobbyists. And Wall Street thanks you too.

[brentspeak]

2. What health care reform?

??

[Dinger]

5. Quite The Contrary

They should keep their seats, for a LONG time.

[AnOhioan]

6. OK how about members that voted for the IWR??

Members that voted for NAFTA?

You seem to have all the answers...why not let you run run the country? Who needs Congress?

[ProSense]

11. More than 40,000 people die each year due to lack of health coverage.

The IWR didn't cause the war. Bush did.

[AnOhioan]

14. And this travesty of a bill will not change those numbers

all it will do is make it harder on the working class. If you don't see that then I am sorry.

[denimgirly]

40. A giveaway to Insurers is not the smartest solution. Makes matters worse.

[LakeSamish706]

9. Nope.. Not true, because the current health care reform bill is a pile of garbage.

If and when the majority of Dems. in Congress that vote for this POS, they should be voted out of Congress. This bill in it's current form is a total give away to the Insurance companies.

[Robeson]

10. Pathetic.

[havocmom]

13. but predictable

[ProSense]

17. Appropriate. A no vote right or left, is a no vote. n/t

[Oregone]

23. So what?

Each district will have a chance to determine if their congressmen properly represented them according to their 'no' vote, whatever the reason. Its not up to you to decide universally for the people what they must do, as if you know better than anyone else. Its quite condescending actually.

[ProSense]

24. I still hope they lose their seats. n/t

[Oregone]

27. Hope in one hand and piss into the other

Let me know which ones fills up first.

No really....don't. I don't give a shit

[ProSense]

28. They should still lose their seats. n/t

[Oregone]

29. "Should"? If there was some universal justice, this shitty bill wouldn't even be on the table

The US would of had a real health care system decades ago.


But thats not the case. So...it is what it is

[Oregone]

16. Support for health insurance reform isn't a prerequisite for a good congressman

People need to represent their constituency after all by being who they campaigned as to get elected (by those people). That is how the US government is supposed to work.


Whether or not one supports profitable low actuarial valued policies designed to cause economic rationing amongst the poor, on the government's tab, doesn't make one instantly good or bad at being a legislator

[ibegurpard]

21. Has something changed?

Do we actually have a real healthcare reform bill now?
Or is it still the Insurance industry bailout that we're talking about?

[IndianaGreen]

25. They are using fear in order to force us to support the insurance bailout the Senate passed

Fearmongering, they hope, will motive us to pressure the House to pass that corporate POS.

[David Zephyr]

22. I agree. But they are not voting for or against healthcare. The voting is for insurance.

You know...the insurance companies. Sound familiar.

[jefferson_dem]

46. Let's suppose it is really about "insurance reform" rather than "health care reform"...

What does that say about opponents of the bill?

President Obama struck a populist tone, setting up the health insurance industry as his main target.

“We can’t have a system that works better for the insurance companies than it does for the American people,” he said.

Citing big rate increases for buyers of individual insurance policies in some states — 40 percent, 60 percent, even 100 percent — Mr. Obama sought to focus attention on provisions in the legislation that he said would protect consumers from the worst excesses of insurers, give people more choice among insurance policies, insure most people who do not have coverage, and put downward pressure on health care costs.

Boiling down his proposal to a few sentences, Mr. Obama asked, “How many people would like a proposal that holds insurance companies more accountable? How many people would like to give Americans the same insurance choices that members of Congress get? And how many would like a proposal that brings down costs for everyone? That’s our proposal.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/health/policy/09health.html?ref=politics&pagewanted=print

[w4rma]

26. Only if the bill has a public option in it. If they vote against it then, then they can lose their

seats.

[Jennicut]

30. The conservadems should lose their seats. The ultra progressives at least mean well.

[SoxFan]

32. You have to be fucking kidding me

In other words, a "progressive" can act like a selfish ass, but since his motives are as pure as the driven snow, he gets a pass?

What a crock.

If HCR loses by one vote, there's blood on Kucinich's hands.

[Jennicut]

33. I support the HCR. I think DK is a selfish idiot at times but I don't

think he is voting against this for the same reasons as the conservadems would. I must be the only person on this board completely bored by DK.

[amborin]

34. pols who push a big $$$$ giveaway to insurance corps, at citizens' expense, should be primaried

[Hekate]

35. Watch out, Kooch, this means you.

[Wardoc]

36. Members of Congress who vote for the Senate "Health Care" bill should lose their seats.

That is all.

[Donnachaidh]

38. members who vote for the insurance profit protection act should lose their seats

And most likely will.

[denimgirly]

42. +10,000

[denimgirly]

39. Wall$treet: "We agree with the OP"

[LiberalFighter]

43. Either by forcing them to run in a primary or forcing them out before a primary occurs.

Forcing them out of a primary by reducing their financial support and being negative about them in media. Then we would have a better chance to elect a better Democrat instead of trying to vote em out in the General.

[Kaleva]

44. How is this to be accomplished?

[jefferson_dem]

45. Yes.

:thumbsup:

I'm not bit on litmus tests, but this is one. I don't care if they are blue dogs or purity progressives. Whoever votes against reform should be kicked to the curb. And I will work toward that goal in 2010.