From: Matt Lockshin, CREDO Action [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 12:40 AM Subject: Tell Bernie Sanders: Save health care from Joe Lieberman.
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<http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=5120&id=7089-1826466-SgdSeyx&t=1> Sen.
Bernie Sanders can save health reform from Joe Lieberman.
We need one senator to champion progressive values.
Your message to Senator Bernie Sanders:
A healthcare bill without a strong public option is just not acceptable.
We need one progressive senator to be a hero, to stand up and tell President
Obama he should crackdown on conservatives like Joe Lieberman in the Senate
- not progressives - in order to get a bill passed.
Please draw a line in the sand and say you will do whatever it takes -
including withholding a vote for cloture - to block any bill that does not
contain a public option.
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Dear Alex,
The Senate is poised to pass a deeply flawed health care bill that doesn't
include a public option but would require everyone to buy insurance, even if
it's unaffordable or doesn't meet their needs.
Progressives are simply supposed to accept this giveaway to the insurance
lobby because we're told that we need to pass something by Christmas and
that nothing better can pass the Senate. On both counts, this is simply
untrue.
Sen. Joe Lieberman has shown us that it just takes one senator to block a
bill. We need one progressive senator to stand up and block a health care
bill without a public option.
Ask <http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=5121&id=7089-1826466-SgdSeyx&t=3> Sen.
Bernie Sanders to be a progressive hero and stand up for the public option.
Click here to automatically add your name to our petition.
A poll released today by Democracy for America and the Progressive Change
Campaign Committee shows that almost two thirds of U.S. voters support
health care reform with a public option. Only 33 percent of those surveyed
support a health insurance mandate without a public option. Not only that,
but voters overwhelmingly believe that President Obama didn't fight Sen.
Lieberman hard enough before caving on health care reform.1
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Regardless of what the pundits and party functionaries are saying, this is
one fight that progressives don't have to lose. The polls show that the
conventional wisdom coming out of Washington D.C. and the Connecticut board
rooms of the big insurance companies is wrong. What's more, President
Obama's Christmas deadline for the Senate to pass a bill is completely
arbitrary. We can't stop fighting for what we believe in just because the
president wants a vote on Christmas Eve.
We need one progressive senator to be a hero, to stand up and tell President
Obama he should crack down on conservatives in the Senate - not progressives
- in order to get a bill passed. We need one senator to draw a line in the
sand and say that if the president won't do this, Sen. Harry Reid will have
to invoke reconciliation and force the Senate to pass a bill that's not
subject to a filibuster.
Can <http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=5121&id=7089-1826466-SgdSeyx&t=6> you
ask Bernie Sanders to be that senator and stand up for the public option?
Click here to automatically sign the petition.
Just because President Obama decided to capitulate to Joe Lieberman's
demands, doesn't mean progressives have to, too. If there was ever a time to
use reconciliation, this is it. The public overwhelmingly supports a public
option and overwhelmingly opposes a bill that doesn't have a public option
but does include a mandate to buy private health insurance. The House
version of the health care bill already has a public option and we know that
a majority of Senators have said they support a public option. Why should we
allow Joe Lieberman to abuse the filibuster and massively undermine the
health care bill without doing everything we can to stop him?
What's especially ironic about the demand for progressives to pass a deeply
unprogressive bill is that the pressure being applied to those fighting for
a strong public option was never applied to the likes of Max Baucus, Ben
Nelson or Joe Lieberman as they fought to weaken the bill.
Will <http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=5121&id=7089-1826466-SgdSeyx&t=7> you
ask Sen. Bernie Sanders to be a hero and do everything in his power -
including withholding a vote for cloture - to block a bill without a public
option? Click here to automatically add your name to our petition.
If Democrats in the Senate continue to ignore tactics that would allow us to
pass reform with 51 votes instead of 60, we will lose our only chance in a
generation to fix our broken health care system. If a weak White House
continues to threaten only progressives, then the most unprincipled,
paid-off senator gets to write the health care bill.
We can continue to play their game where the people lose and the insurance
industry and Joe Lieberman win. Or we can play hardball and block a Senate
bill which contains a mandate but no public option. Health care matters far
too much to let rules designed to stop change stop us. And it is cynical
beyond measure to call Lieberman's demands real reform. This is why we need
Senator Bernie Sanders to take a stand. If not now, when?
Thank you for working to secure real health care reform.
Matt Lockshin, Campaign Manager
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Action from Working Assets
P.S.: "If I wanted Joe Lieberman to write health care reform, I would have
voted for John McCain." That's what blogger Jane Hamsher wrote and her
single phrase says it all. If you are not convinced that we should kill the
bill if it contains a mandate without a public option, here are a few
articles you should read.
Howard <http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=5115&id=7089-1826466-SgdSeyx&t=9>
Dean: "Health-care bill wouldn't bring real reform"
Keith <http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=5116&id=7089-1826466-SgdSeyx&t=10>
Olbermann: "Ruined Senate bill unsupportable"
Robert <http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=5117&id=7089-1826466-SgdSeyx&t=11>
Reich: "Slouching Toward Health Care Reform"
Jane <http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=5118&id=7089-1826466-SgdSeyx&t=12>
Hamsher: "Kill the Senate Bill"
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