skippy the bush kangaroo: horse to water, coals to newcastle, whatever you want to call it...

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

horse to water, coals to newcastle, whatever you want to call it...

fdl sez howard fineman reports that dennis "the menace" kucinich will vote "yes" on the hcr:

dennis kucinich has called a press conference for tomorrow. howard fineman is reporting that kucinich will vote “yes” on health care.

kucinich told obama that he wants a full erisa waver and a public option in exchange for his vote. and if he actually gets an erisa waver, it will be the biggest victory of the entire health care debate. as jon walker says, “erisa is the 900 pound gorilla that has fucked up america’s health care system something good.”

it's gonna be close, kids...

posted by skippy at 7:54 PM |

3 Comments:

It's gonna happen. And since holdout BlueDogs kept moving it rightward, I felt Dennis the K had a shot to move it left a step. If he has, bully for him!

That's why I wasn't willing to join Kos in trashing him. One can disagree with a fellow liberal w/o resorting to assassination.

commented by

Kevin Hayden, 8:02 PM PDT

Going like clockwork. And Dennis will make sure we get a vote on a public option.

commented by

mahakal, 9:46 PM PDT

Good.
Too many freaking years have passed w no change, no progress, no discussion.

This bill is nowhere near perfect, but we have to start somewhere.

Also Kucinich represents a very poor district.
I'm sure the majority of his constituents want some change to happen now.

I'm sure they will be duking out changes for many years--
but the last time the topic was even brought up was 16 years ago, in the Clinton era.

Of the 219 GOP members of congress, only TWO voted in favor of health care reform.

This would appear to be our best window of time to push the door open & go from here.

We've got to stop hoping for change, and start making it happen.

commented by

Fran, 9:53 PM PDT

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