Teabagger Mob Makes Sen. Ben Cardin More Resolved To Make Reform

[jefferson_dem]

Mob Makes Sen. Ben Cardin More Resolved To Make Reform
August 15, 2009 3:11 pm. 0 Comments | Ben Cardin, Health Care and Maryland Ben Cardin, Maryland’s junior Senator.

Cardin said the meetings have changed lawmakers, but probably not in the way most of those who shouted the loudest would like.

‘I’m more resolved than ever,’ Cardin, 65, said Thursday after his whirlwind week. ‘I love debating. I’m sorry more of that couldn’t happen this week because of so much of the shouting, but I personally believe the American people still want us to deal with tough problems. We’re not all going to agree, that’s obvious, but we’re at the point we need a specific bill.’

If Cardin’s experience resembles that of other lawmakers, many might return from the August recess with a sharper focus on and a greater personal stake

http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/08/15/mob-makes-sen-ben-cardin-more-resolved-to-make-reform/

[babylonsister]

1. Yay, may he be the first of many! nt

[jbnow]

4. He isn't even the first one, though I can't recall names

Several of the reps came out of meetings with the same attitude. The first I read was a Dem from Texas.
But really the house is not the problem (or wasn't), it is the Senate where things are likely to hang up. They say we have 60, we don't, not with Byrd and Kennedy health issues. But even scarier is the many who were already reluctant to diminish corporate profits. I mean reluctant to go with any public plan...and really those are the same thing

[Cha]

7. Was it Lloyd

Doggett?

[tavalon]

11. Had to be

But then, he's always been a great liberal dem. He used to be my representative. A Really Good Man.

[surrealAmerican]

2. The disrupters are doing more to discredit their cause than to advance it.

[Arkana]

3. That's what I like to hear!

[Hansel]

5. Probably because he knows his "good friends on the other side of the aisle"

are the ones most responsible for ginning up this irrational anger.

Most have just as much of a hand in these "grass roots organizations" as Dick Army and the group's billionaire "Christian" and other traditional smear funders. Those that don't, with very few exceptions, have refused to speak out against some of the outrageous and revolting things being said about our president. I don't think any Democrat is so spineless as not to be moved with disgust. Especially when Obama is such a stand up guy and undeserving of these attacks. It was bound to backfire.

I'm sure Obama has no problem reminding them--behind closed doors of course--who is responsible for the chaos. The betrayal would be stunning if it weren't so predictable.

[Cha]

6. I know it would make me more resolved

if I were a lawmaker. What.. the brainwashed thought they were going to come to these Meets and scare everyone out of a vialble Health Insurance Reform Bill for the People?

[demosincebirth]

8. Dems use to do that (shoot ourselves in the foot) in the past.

That was our trade mark.

[PopSixSquish]

9. I Love the Smell of Backlash in the Morning...err Afternoon

Get after 'em Senator Cardin...

[KakistocracyHater]

10. Good, to begin: drop the Medicare age limit from over 65 to 1 minute old

as a solid foundation. Automatically opt in registered Dems & opt out GOP; send everyone a letter letting them change this if they want. Plus to add in those not old enough to be registered.