R-ISLANDER

SPEAK FREQUENTLY, MR. PRESIDENT...WE LIKE BEING INFORMED...

unlike Bush who was like a frightened deer before cameras, Obama is actually speaking to us like the adults we are...and frequently...but i wish he would give us the public option...we need MORE government, not less when it comes to health care!  But again, thank you for talking to us as frequently as you do!  Finally, a President not afraid to keep the public informed!  AND thank God for Nancy Pelosi...she seems to have a firm grip on what Americans want and need!

'TRIGGER' ON HEALTH CARE ONLY GIVES REPUBLICANS AN ELECTION YEAR ISSUE

All the talk today has been that President Obama and some Democratic House leaders are willing to compromise on the public option with what is called a "trigger."  All that "trigger" will do is give the Republicans an issue to run with right up to the 2010 elections.  It will give Republicans months right up through the 2010 elections to whip up anti-Obama and anti-Democratic sentiment just as they did last August.  If they want to lose the next election for sure, then Democrats should vote for this silly "trigger" which will allow Republicans a very effective issue...the threat of a public option...for months and insure (no pun intended) that insurance companies have at least the time until the public option kicks in to bleed us for more $$$$$.  The ROBUST public option should be given to us so that by the next election, the issue will be muted, people might even KNOW how good it will be in reducing their insurance bills....THE PUBLIC OPTION NOW!!!!    SAY NO TO THE "TRIGGER" MR. OBAMA ESPECIALLY IF YOU WANT DEMOCRATS TO WIN IN 2010!

BILL MOYERS NAILS OBAMA ON HEALTH CARE! YEAH, BILL!!!

Bill Moyers, the PBS commentator Americans probably trust and believe as much as they did Walter Cronkite, says to Obama:   "no more Mr. Nice Guy, Mr. President, (when it comes to health care and the public option) we need a fighter.  Here is the entire video and with transcript...and if you do view it, the most powerful of Moyers' statements come at the end....  http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/09042009/watch3.html

NANCY PELOSI: SHE'S STANDING FOR THE PEOPLE!

Boy, there should be more representatives, both in the House and in the Senate, who have the gumption that Nancy Pelosi has...she is among the very few standing up for the people in the face of the incredible pressure being exerted by the insurance industry and the republicans to end the push for what the american people really need:  A ROBUST PUBLIC OPTION ON HEALTH CARE.  It is interesting that corporations and their republican rent boys are always in favor of competition in the marketplace, except when it threatens their monopoly.  Americans want and need the public option to insure that competition in health care, but the money grubbers, like insurance companies and the republicans, want to be allowed to continue stealing money from our pockets with their unconscionable profits that they make on our illnesses.  It's time to stop these people, and listen to the likes of Pelosi, Anthony Weiner, and those few good people over at MSNBC (ed schultz, keith olbermann, rachel maddow, and sometimes chris matthews) who seem to be giving us the true skinny about how the insurance industry and their republican rent boys are trying to screw the american people over this issue....don't let them screw you...CONTINUE TO DEMAND A PUBLIC OPTION...health care is a right of citzenship, and we need to get the money grubbers out of the way of us getting those rights....

WTF...HOW STUPID IS THE OBAMA WHITEHOUSE?...AND I VOTED FOR HIM

I can't believe that the Washington Post reported this:

"I don't understand why the left of the left has decided that this is their Waterloo," said a senior White House adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "We've gotten to this point where health care on the left is determined by the breadth of the public option. I don't understand how that has become the measure of whether what we achieve is health-care reform."

"It's a mystifying thing," he added. "We're forgetting why we are in this."

Another top aide expressed chagrin that a single element in the president's sprawling health-care initiative has become a litmus test for whether the administration is serious about the issue.

"It took on a life of its own," he said.

WTF:  two things.

1.  Mandating that millions of people who do not buy insurance or can't without a ROBUST public option without government supplements is nothing more than dumping millions if not billions of dollars in the coffers of the insurance companies...they must love this.

2.  The Obama administration is "...forgetting why we are in this."  NOT the progressive democrats...WE ARE IN THIS FOR REAL REFORM....NOT TO GIVE INSURANCE COMPANIES GREATER ACCESS TO OUR MONEY....without a public option that is what happens....if there is not at least a ROBUST public option...the democrats will NEVER get a vote from this democrat....NEVER.

And we are not the "left of the left..."  We are those mothers and fathers of the middle class who have insurance and who are VERY tired of the insurance corporations taking us to the cleaners....I thought we voted for Obama to bring CHANGE...giving the insurance companies more money without  a ROBUST public option is NOT CHANGE.

Who ever gave this interview has his or her head up the proverbial backside...that has always been the sine non quo for MOST DEMOCRATS. 

Hey, Mr. Obama, listen to Rep. Anthony Weiner and even more importantly, Speakler Pelosi...they are the ones who got you started, who supported you along with us...stop listening to people like GRASSLEY.  They will never vote for you no matter what....but not public option, i will not either....

OBAMA: PLEASE LISTEN TO ANTHONY WEINER!

"...all health insurance companies should be abolished..."  MEDICARE FOR EVERYONE!
http://medicareforall.net/  ...and can you imagine...Emmanuel is pissed at Weiner...Weiner is the only one with the right perspective here...it's the perspective i thought i voted for when i voted for Obama...i am, like so many americans who voted for him, very disappointed in Obama...why vote democratic if it doesn't matter...the conservative republicans under the guise of bipartisanship are insuring the continued unconscionable profits of health insurance companies at our expense...MR. PRESIDENT, LISTEN TO ANTHONY WEINER AND NOT GRASSLEY, ET AL...

REPUBLICANS MOVE TO FIRE DOCTOR TO INSURE PROFITS: THE DONUT DOCTOR

PENSACOLA, Fla. – Dr. Jason Newsom railed against burgers, french fries, fried chicken and sweet tea in his campaign to promote better eating in a part of the country known as the Redneck Riviera. He might still be leading the charge if he had only left the doughnuts alone.

A 38-year-old former Army doctor who served in Iraq, Newsom returned home to Panama City a few years ago to run the Bay County Health Department and launched a one-man war on obesity by posting sardonic warnings on an electronic sign outside...such as donuts = diabetes.

Unfortunately, the highest donor to the republican party in pensacola, home of MSNB's Joe Scarborough, also a rabid republican, is also the local owner of a donut shop...needless to say if we can judge from the health care debate, republicans always put profits above the needs of the american people and in this case the local power, the republicans, alledgedly from the news, had the good doctor fired...nice, huh?

ANTHONY WEINER (D-NY) SHOULD SPEAK FOR OBAMA ON HEALTH CARE

Morning Joe today had an interview with Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York...absolutely great stuff...Weiner asks the profound question "What do the insurance companies bring to health care?"  The answer, of course, is nothing but the need to create profits for insurance companies...so, Weiner has a great idea:  Medicare for everyone.  Medicare is an excellent system with a 4% overhead, while insurance companies need and have a 30% overhead cost.  True, Medicare has a funding problem, but Weiner points out how that can be corrected...of course we'll never get Medicare for everyone now, but Howard Dean has made it clear that the public option needs to be there or many democrats will not vote for a bill without it.  I'm with Weiner and the Dean Democrats....WE WANT A PUBLIC OPTION NOW!! btw, Weiner has been invited back to Morning Joe on this coming Thursday....you should watch...this guy has it down....

OBAMA DISAPPOINTS....

Obama has disappointed on so many fronts...but on healthcare, he has really done in my hopes...he's now talking about no public option...well, Howard Dean is making it clear on the talk shows this morning that without a public option any health reform bill will be nothing more than another HUGE dump of our money to the insurance company pigs...Like Howard Dean, MOST OF US WANT A ROBUST PUBLIC OPTION!!!

NO PUBLIC OPTION ON HEALTH CARE, THEN NO VOTE FOR DEMS EVER AGAIN!

President Obama seems to be backing down on his promise of a ROBUST PUBLIC OPTION ON HEALTH CARE.  I hope the Congressional Democrats think differently...I'll tell you right now, if there is no public option then i ask you, "Why should we EVER vote Democratic again?"  We voted democratic for change and that change promised us a change in health care that included a strong public option...now the dems and Obama are backing down, WTF...say NO TO Bipartisan bullshit and pass the public option....