{"id":421721,"date":"2010-03-12T17:20:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T22:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=72578"},"modified":"2010-03-12T17:20:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T22:20:30","slug":"tell-progressives-to-honor-their-pledge-insist-on-a-public-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/421721","title":{"rendered":"Tell Progressives to Honor Their Pledge: Insist on a Public Option"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (photo by Orin)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Today, Dick Durbin says that if the House sends over a public option in their reconciliation bill<\/a>, he’ll whip for it. But he won’t whip for a public option amendment.<\/p>\n

Which is incredibly chickenshit of Durbin — it once again puts all the blame on the House for the public option’s failure, and accepts none of it himself. In other words, pure Durbin.<\/p>\n

In response, Nancy Pelosi says she won’t include a public option in the House bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As I said the other day when I laid out FDL’s position on whipping the public option<\/a>, I’m still not convinced they can pass this bill–period. And I don’t particularly want to get everyone riled up to whip on something that may never happen.<\/p>\n

But as a pure matter of principle, after almost a year of blaming its exclusion on a lack of votes in the Senate, there is no way<\/em> it should die in the House.<\/p>\n

The PCCC has done a great job getting members of Congress on the record as to where they stand, and I agree wholeheartedly with Adam Green<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Mark Warner, Tom Harkin, Herb Kohl, Claire McCaskill, and other undeclared senators are not going to vote against the president’s top priority, and if Speaker Pelosi refuses to even allow a vote on the public option, than [sic] she killed the public option. She needs to step up.<\/p>\n

If the House is going to put a health care bill to a vote, we should at least be able to see who is going to stab their voters and turn their backs on Democrats on behalf of the insurance companies before the next election.<\/p>\n

Let’s see who’s willing to do that.<\/p>\n

Sixty members of Congress pledged to vote against a health care bill that didn’t have a public option. Others made videos and gave statements.<\/p>\n

See them here <\/a><\/p>\n

They need to make it clear to Nancy Pelosi that they will honor that pledge if she doesn’t include a public option in the health care bill.<\/p>\n

Call progressive members of Congress who pledged to vote against any health care bill that doesn’t have a public option, and tell them to insist on its inclusion in the House bill. Then let us know what they say.<\/p>\n

Call Now<\/strong>
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Tags: Health care<\/a>, Nancy Pelosi<\/a>, PCCC<\/a>, public option<\/a>, whip count<\/a><\/p>\n

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (photo by Orin) Today, Dick Durbin says that if the House sends over a public option in their reconciliation bill, he’ll whip for it. But he won’t whip for a public option amendment. Which is incredibly chickenshit of Durbin — it once again puts all the blame on the House for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}