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Resistance
Olle Johansson, Sweden
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Which is why placeofnopity dot com is the high-speed lubricant beneath the block of resistance. Even while people are shelving morals, you need to talk to them in the language they speak: money. The reason people like Senator Lieberman are standing against the[sometimes overwhelming] majority Will of their constituents who want the Public Option is because they are taking bribe money from MedMob. It really doesn't get simpler than that.
So for every MedMob buck, withold ten from their state this holiday season. Businesses of that state will bring pressure to bear on their leaders who will face either impeachment or failure in their next election cycle. If 70% of the American people want the Public Option, to not give it to them means this country is no longer a democracy and we have no business overseas trying to “promote democracy” when we aren't even practicing it ourselves. The boycott is the People's last chance to overthrow tyranny…before revolution..
Funny, that doesn't look like a Blue Dog's foot.
Sil,
I support your right to boycott and admire your commitment. However, I still don't think it will amount to anything whatsoever. Still you gotta do what you think is right and I admire that despite disagreeing with your politics.
An accurate cartoon would include the public's as well as the Blue Dogs' and GOP's feet.
As for Silhouette, yes, you have the right to be as silly as you want about the boycott, or about bogus figures in support for the public option, but with Baucus's bill fizzling as badly as it did, and getting an earful of complaints by the Dems in the Senate, it appears the public option isn't yet dead in any final legislation. At least, not yet. The final bill will likely be to the left of Baucus's (my guess). I just hope the House libs aren't so childish that they wreck things wanting too much in the way of their kind of public option rather than being intelligent and taking the co-ops and turning them into the public option in all but name. (Make them tax-supported as well as non-profit, for starters, and so on)
Even though the public option is still seen as fatal to Blue Dogs and the GOP, some Blue Dogs may waver now that the Baucus bill bombed so badly. This is far from over. (I could do without the lowly Obama traveling teevee circus act, though. That only shouts “WE'RE DESPERATE!” to everyone.)
“for every MedMob buck, withold ten from their state this holiday season”
Just put out your own ads. AARP put out a pro-public option ad (wowee — “choice of a public option”) and others have put out ads here in Detroit metro, for example, in support of the “reform” effort, and to not believe the “scare stories” of a (real) takeover of health care, etc..