A Real Grassroots, Inexpensive Way To Make A Point About Health Care Reform
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That wonderful little video that Noah sent me explains the health care reform debate far better than most members of Congress have-- and far better than Katherine Sebelius or anyone else from the Obama Administration has. The message has pretty much been one of the main themes of DWT for the last few months. We can't depend on the ghost in the clip though. There are no Republicans who are good on health care-- none, not one. You want health insurance reform? No more Republicans! And no more Democrats who play footsie with them-- like the DLC shills or the Blue Dogs!
These corrupt, reactionary senators are working full time to undermine even modest health care reform-- the public option compromise. Each has taken large enough amounts in thinly disguised bribes from Big Insurance that they should recuse themselves from voting of anything pertaining to the industry. The dollar amount next to their names is how much they've taken from the Insurance Industry-- listed from the most corrupt to the almost as corrupt. More than anyone else in Congress, these seventeen bribe besotted slime-balls from both parties are the ones who are keeping our families from getting health care:
John McCain (R-AZ- $2,894,353)
Ben Nelson (DLC-NE- $1,231,299)
Max Baucus (DLC-MT- $1,190,463)
Arlen Specter (R-PA- $1,055,655)
Joe Lieberman (DLC-CT- $1,033,402)Mitch McConnell (R-KY- $936,507)
Chuck Grassley (R-IA- $931,874)
Kent Conrad (DLC-ND- $828,787)
Jim Bunning (R-KY- $794,499)
Richard Shelby (R-AL- $679,048)
Orrin Hatch (R-UT- $670,057)
Kit Bond (R-MO- $644,571)
Saxby Chambliss (R-GA- $642,466)
John Ensign (R-NV- $626,466)
Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX- $617,200)
Evan Bayh (DLC-IN- $602,752)
John Cornyn (R-TX- $566,178)
And in case you think it's just senators who are on the take, there are also 10 especially bad House members just as corrupt and fighting just as strongly against health care reform as the senators above: Earl Pomeroy (Blue Dog-ND- $1,819,606), Richard Neal (R-GA- $934,781), John Boehner (R-OH- $911,806), Eric Cantor (R-VA- $712,674), Spencer Bachus (R-AL- $689,350), Pat Tiberi (R-OH- $602,594), Roy Blunt (R-MO- $564,032), John Tanner (Blue Dog-TN- $559,118), Ed Royce (R-CA- $536,780) and, alas, the Insurance Industry's secret weapon, Steny Hoyer (D-MD- $529,227).
And then there's Peter Clothier's idea for how we can make a difference-- a virtual march on Washington on Sept. 1. This is a good idea.
Labels: Culture of Corruption, public option, single-payer health insurance
posted by DownWithTyranny @ 6:00 AM
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Thanks for the post. I have a favor to ask, though. Can you provide a link to where you get your $ info from? That'd be handy.
Thanks!
Dan, all our figures are from Open Secrets.org and from individual FEC reports, also available online. Unfortunately, when you dig down to where the good stuff is, it won't translate into links that show up on blogs.
Woody, you're probably right but... maybe not. Bingaman was the first of the Gang of Six to express even mild disgust with the obstructionist role the Republicans are playing in the process and said yesterday that he's starting to think the Democrats may just have to do this without them. He's still clinging to the faux bipartisanship but he's the first one to raise the possibility that it may turn out to be even more fruitless than any sane person would have guessed from the moment Baucus named the 6 bribe-besotted conservatives to the ad hoc committee.
i'm with you on single-payer, H.R. 676. note: Neal is actually from MA
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