The Progress Report wrote:
What Workers Face This Labor Day
From: The Progress Report [progress@americanprogressaction.org]
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 8:34 AM
To: Tom
Subject: What Workers Face This Labor DayTHINK FAST
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) seemed to indicate his support for a public plan trigger. “If we don’t see more competition in the system, we might revisit it [a public option] down the road,” he said. Warner said he aligns himself with moderate Democrats in the Senate, whom he calls “radical centrists.”
Trigger!?!
When the insurance company turned down cancer surgery because it was a pre-existing condition, then that was the trigger for a public option!
When insurance premiums rose 20 times faster than inflation as they have the past 10 years, then that was the trigger for a public option!
When 40 million people who cannot get medical care through an employer just simply cannot afford $3000.00 per year for health insurance so they do without, then that is the trigger for a public option!
When people have offered up story after story of how medical costs forced them into bankruptcy, then that was the trigger for a public option!
THE TRIGGER HAS BEEN PULLED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Clueless: Anonymous Says Senate Pushes For Public Option Without Obama’s Support
via Leaderless: Senate Pushes For Public Option Without Obama’s Support
This opening paragraph is unofficial conjecture and based on hearsay from sources either unwilling to go on the record about it, or fictional.
Opinion. And anger.
The sentence that begins with “Such pleading is exceedingly rare” is quite possibly changing the context of the quote from the anonymous “one Senate Democratic leadership aide”. The sentence is craftily joined onto this quote to make the reader think the person being quoted meant something entirely different than what he/she said. Is the statement by the anonymous person fact or opinion?
How do we know that “Senate leaders exhausted every effort to encourage Obama to engage”? The authors fail to tell us who has “pleaded” with Obama and who has simply suggested something to him.
This whole article is bent toward some sort of chastisement of the administration’s perceived lack of leadership, when the truth is Obama has gotten much done in his first year especially considering the condition of the economy when he took control.
Look, we all want a strong public option but we have to remember where all this would be if November 2008 had turned out differently, and then count or blessings we have gotten this far.
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via Leaderless: Senate Pushes For Public Option Without Obama’s Support
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