Vinehout bill would create health ins exchange - I wish this would get ONE TENTH

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

http://host.madison.com/news/local/health_med_fit/bill-would-create-state-run-health-insurance-exchange/article_79895018-581e-5bc4-b900-dee3488a20d8.html

of the attention that RTW got! But no one's heard of it, and none of my usual glut of political email from various lists mentions it.

Sure its a lost cause - at this moment anyway - but why not go on the attack and fight for lost causes instead of being purely in defense mode, reacting all the time? I think it would help people to be reminded of what the Dem party stands for, and maybethe fighting FOR things can get the same press and attention that the conflict and fighting AGAINST things

Honestly I am sick to death of Walker this Walker that. Cant we pleeeeeze talk about Kathleen Vinehouts bill - or someone else, something else for two minutes OK?

Like good old Don Draper once said... or was it Peggy Olson.... If you don't like whats being said, change the conversation!!!!

[Pharaoh]

1. Its not in the media

because of that darn Liberal media! (sarcasm)

[msongs]

2. dems do not have the ability to run a coordinated publicty campaign touting accomplishments & values

especially since values have shifted so far to the right.

privatized prison? dems love it
corporate solar? dems love it
endless war? dems are leading them
dismantling public schools? dems like it
police war on black people? shhh
police war on everyone? shhh
stealing our right to vote? lotsa hot air but not much real response
etc

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

3. I was talking about us - what we do or dont do - here's a bill that ISNT those things that

you mention. Certainly we can look up our legislators ourselves, call, email, storm their office without having a coordinating publicity campaign or an email that comes in my box with a link that I click on to "tell my legislator yadda yadda"

Im not posting any links - yall know how to use google to look up your legislators.

Thom Hartmann is fond of saying that leaders don't really "lead," they just like to get out in front of a parade and act like they are... that its really the energy percolating up from the bottom that drives everything. I tend to agree.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. I concur with our sentiment about focusing on good stuff once in a while.

And as for Kathleen, she's the greatest. She has a mix of knowledge, wisdom & compassion that belongs in the Governor's mansion, but alas, certain stupid and superficial prejudices on the part of the public will prevent her ever getting there.