Stop telling us "We don't have the votes!" GO GET THE VOTES!!!

[backscatter712]

WOOT!!! My first diary to hit the top of the Daily Kos Rec List!!!

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/15/742789/-Stop-telling-us-We-dont-have-the-votes!-GO-GET-THE-VOTES!!!

Kent Conrad, Max Baucus, Ben Nelson, Joe Lieberman and Harry Reid, I'm talking to you. Because we're sick of hearing your lame excuses. We're tired of necessary legislation like health care reform being watered down, sandbagged and sabotaged because you want to cave to the insurance industry. We're sick of your craven cowardice. We gave your party the majority so you can fulfill promises to fix our economy, extricate us from Bush's wars and repair a health care system that's so badly broken that up to 100,000 people die every year from inadequate health care in the richest country in the world.

Every week we hear a new ploy.

Last week, it was the trigger, that was engineered to never be triggered. Didn't fly, did it.

This week, it's the co-op proposal, designed to leave the risk pools so fragmented and the co-ops so small as to have zero influence on the insanely inflated prices in the health care market. Yeah, we know why the Rick Scott groupies like this idea.

And now you're going on all the cable news bobblehead shows and saying "We don't have the votes!"

Well, I have one word in response: BULLSHIT!!!

[QC]

1. If this were more welfare for investment bankers they would sure as hell

rustle up some votes.

[rurallib]

5. they busted their heinies for the bankers.

[QC]

9. Well, our reps know who they really work for. n/t

[malaise]

2. How will they get those votes if people who want

health care reforms are busy fighting the green Iranian revolution on line rather than demanding health care reforms at home.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. We have the White House .........

We have the Senate.

We have Congress.

Yet, we're fucked.

Too bad all the members of Congress, D&R, are owned by the lobbyists.

Labels and parties no longer mean a thing.

Nothing is going to change, and we, the people, are fucked.........................

[imdjh]

4. sad but probably true. Can I please stay in denial?? Maybe next term! Yeah, that's the ticket. nt

[spanone]

6. i feel that given our lobbying system, there is no one representing the people

a failure of government....broken system..

[tnlefty]

7. Congrats!!

Norman Goldman was all over this 'don't have the votes' angle on Ed's radio show today. He even mentioned taking these reluctant Sens. behind closed doors and telling them straight up (as Pres.), I will fundraise and campaign against you if you don't get on board. I love Norman, and when he's fired up it's especially nice.

Congrats to you again. :toast:

ETA: Rec. #5 here.

[nosmokes]

8. I'll second this!

K&R,BTW.

it amazes me how the effing GOPosse can shove a prescription drug program through in the wee hours of the morning that is nothing more than a badly camouflaged welfare system for one of the most most profitable industries going, big pharma, not to mention war spending bill after war spending bill, yet the rubber spined democrats can't seem to buy a republican vote affirming the sky is is blue.

[TacticalPeek]

10. Fuck the Republicans.

The bastards.