Guess Who's a Definite No on the Public Option?
If you didn't yell "Cowardly Weasel Benny Boy Chandler!" before you even finished reading the headline, obviously you're new here.
Now that Senate BLue Dogs have stabbed the public option in the back, it's up to House Democratic members to save health care reform. Down whit Tyranny explains:
Democratic Whip Jim Clyburn says there are 47 hard no votes among conservative Democrats as well as 8 more leaning in that direction (55 in all). There are 256 Democrats-- so 201 after the 55 who have announced they will be crossing the aisle to vote with the Republicans against meaningful health care reform. Far be from me to second-guess Clyburn's numbers but another good source has given me a list of the hard no votes and the undecided votes. First the 43 for sure no votes:
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Ben Chandler (Blue Dog-KY-06)Travis Childers (Blue Dog-MS-01)
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If any of these are your congressmembers, it's worth calling their offices and telling them how important this vote is to you and your family.
Call or email Blue Dog DINO Ben "I hate working people" Chandler:
Phone: (202) 225-4706
Fax: (202) 225-2122
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Here in Toledo, we have a serious group of phone bank volunteers who, each Wednesday evening, phone +50 local Democrats, urging them to call our Republican senator, Voinovich, to urge that he do at least one positive thing before he retires in January.
The list comes from the Obama campaign and is, in fact, and outreach arm of the Obama Health Care group.
Perhaps you could find that local group [or start one] and have them help you with your bluer-than-blue Dems.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/health-care-action-center/
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