KS Governor Kathleen Sebelius and Lt.Governor Barbara Lawton of WI visited the Obama Team Headquarters in Waukesha to kick off the Women's Week of Action canvassing and phonebank campaign.
I had the chance to tell the governor how much I admire her work in KS from the day I first heard that a small time government official, the Health Insurance Commissioner of KS stopped 2 corporate giants Blue Cross and Blue Shield from merging in KS. That was the first time since Ronald Reagan declared "laissez faire" an official economic religion in this country that anyone dared to challenge corporate mergers in any meaningful way.
I also expressed my hope that we'll see her in an Obama administration because we need the lady who can clean up the republican mess in this country and she is one of the rare experts in that. Republicans are already out there telling the American people that we will probably have to privatize SS and just about every social program because given these recent economic hardships we can't afford them. A president Obama will probably have to deal with their endless whining about how we can't afford government programs that are designed to help the American people.
They want us to not pay attention to the fact that last weekend they just socialized one of the the biggest insurance companies on the planet along with its $587 billion CDS portfolio and all the risks and hidden costs associated with this giant financial lemon. It happened in 24 hours without any discussion or debate with the American people who are being told since FDR came up with the idea, that you can't socialize the insurance business, especially not health insurance!
http://www.governor.ks.gov/http://www.ltgov.state.wi.us/http://www.orchidforchange.com/parties/waukeshadems.com/
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