I hope - no pray - that the Dems. follow through with the public option...

[Writer]

so that the artisans of cynicism will be thrown back on their heels. I've never seen such a successful and surreptitious twisting of words in order to spread a falsehood. This wasn't malicious, but it was very bad WH press pool reporting that has caught fire.

Obama has never indicated, nor will he ever indicate, that he has "caved" or has become (in Maher's words) a "pussy" or has said anything other that he believes a public option will be the best means of reforming the health care insurance industry.

The House Dems. will pass a bill that has a public option. They have the votes and Pelosi stands behind it 100%.

The Senate, on the other hand, is the group of members that are "caving." They do not have the votes necessary to pass the bill - that is who we need to contact.

There is an entire cottage industry in politics devised to make money off of rolling their eyes and clucking their tongues. I'd like to ask Bill Maher - what would you do if our government actually did something RIGHT? How would your monologue look? Would you be able to make that cynical, smarmy statement about the "weak-willed Dems" during your show in order to stir emotions?

And while Stewart's show deserves credit for at least TRYING to give Obama the benefit of the doubt, they too have propagated the myth that the public option is dead.

And to us - the ones that fought so hard to put this man into office - WHERE ARE WE? Why aren't we attending town hall meetings and writing our congressmen? I thought "we" were the ones that we were waiting for? We aren't organizing - we're part of the cynical firing squad that always expects the worst and never gives anyone the benefit of the doubt.

Organize.

Write your congressmen.

Attend a town hall meeting.

Fight.

:rant:

[jeanpalmer]

1. Why are they even holding these townhall meetings?

They're totally useless. They just act as magnets for every rw crank, nutjob and self-styled assassin. Not a single good idea has come out of them. All of the sob stories that have been told are well known, and Obama's plans to reform health insurance will take care of most of them. Instead what we need is a plan, with details, from Obama on a single payer or public option system which can be presented to the people through the media. And debated and discussed in Congress and elsewhere, with reasonable debate. They couldn't have come up with a worse mechanism than this townhhall meeting concept. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

[democracy1st]

2. well said and another thing about these townhalls - People are not even seeing them