Sign The Petition
I got this email from Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake. Please sign the petition if you haven’t already. The more signatures we can get, the better. We need to let Congress know that paranoid teabaggers are the minority and not the majority.
Today at 5pm is the deadline to add your name to our petition asking members of Congress to hold the line for a strong public health insurance option.
So far, more than 57,000 people have signed our petition. We want to get to 60,000 by the end of the day today so I can deliver the petition first thing tomorrow. Can you add your name now?
Click here to sign the petition: http://action.firedoglake.com/page/s/keepthepledge
Later tomorrow, President Obama will address Congress about health care reform. We don’t know what he’ll say yet, but we know that a strong public option is in danger – Obama’s considering a “trigger” to avoid ever implementing a public option.
Max Baucus, the Senate “Democrat” holding up health care reform for the insurance industry, came out with his plan over the weekend. Frankly, it’s garbage – no public option, just regional “co-ops” designed to fatten the pockets of the insurance industry.
So it’s up to us to make sure we pass real health care reform with a strong public option. We need to show our resolve to members of Congress by signing this petition.
This is your last chance to sign our petition for a strong public option. Click here to add your name to our petition:
http://action.firedoglake.com/page/s/keepthepledge
Thanks for all you do. We’ll record the delivery of our petition and report back to you later this week.
Take care,
Jane Hamsher
Firedoglake.com
Tags: Health Care Reform
Signed!
Same here. Even did it…in the First Person!
Same here also.
Signed, sealed and delivered!
‘Bulo – 3rd person withdrawal rehab must be going well for you.
As of noon today, the petition already had 61,550 signatures. They are aiming for 65,000 now.
Done. Thanks for making us aware of this, UI.
Jane “1/3 of us Democrats are 9/11 Truthers” Hamsher has a whole 57K signers on her petition? Gee — there’s a conservative health care petition going to congress tomorrow with 1.25 million signatures.
would it be troll like to point out that the Tea Party Protestors had a rally today outside of Chicago with over 10,000 in attendance…
Actually, I saw a revised figure that said “only” 8k at that rally.
And some of the local media is reporting 5K.
Jane “1/3 of us Democrats are 9/11 Truthers” Hamsher
And you’ll need to come up with some backup for this, RWR. Like exactly where and when she said this.
Now [Van Jones has] been thrown under the bus by the White House for signing his name to a petition expressing something that 35% of all Democrats believed as of 2007 — that George Bush knew in advance about the attacks of 9/11.
Actually, Cassie — the Chicago Tribune didn’t cover it at all. So much for the largest reporting staff in the Midwest.
maybe the Trib’s reporter was stuvk in the traffic jamb at the event?
There is more local media than the Tribune.
And Jane’s comment has nothing to do with 1/3 of Dems being truthers. It is about 1/3 of Dems thinking that “Bin Laden Determined to Strike the US” was a real warning. The truthers think that the government blew up those buildings on purpose.
Big difference.
Actually, Cassie — the Chicago Tribune didn’t cover it at all. So much for the largest reporting staff in the Midwest.
RWR, it happens on both sides. Apparently there was a pro-reform rally in Seattle the other day that got no mention, either. Maybe we’ve finally found something we can agree on — the media is generally lazy and not all that good.
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/seattle-thousands-rally-favor-health
I beg to differ with you, Cassie — the petition (and Hamsher’s comment) was about 1/3 believing that Bush knew specifics about the attacks in advance and let it happen. That is a Truther position.
No it isn’t — but I understand that it suits you to think so. The traditional view of the Truthers is that 9/11 was an inside job. Go take a look at the wikipedia entry to see what the scope of the Truther business is.
We are still marking you down as wrong on Hamsher’s quote — and wrong because you wanted to pretend that Hamsher was saying that 1/3 of Dems were as batshit crazy as the pull the plug on grandma crowd.
Hamsher herself is certainly batshit crazy.
But I’ll refer you to the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article:
9/11 Truth movement is the collective name of loosely affiliated organizations and individuals who question the mainstream interpretation of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Adherents of the movement discuss and propagate 9/11 conspiracy theories and call for a new investigation into the attacks. Some of the organizations state that there is evidence that the United States government may have been either responsible for or knowingly complicit in the September 11 attacks. Motives given include the use of the attacks to initiate the launch of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and in creating the opportunities to curtail civil liberties.
And from further down in the article:
Many adherents of the 9/11 Truth movement suspect that United States government insiders played a part in the attacks, or at the very least knew they were coming and let them occur anyway.
Those within the movement who argue that insiders within the United States government were directly responsible for the September 11 attacks, often suggest that the attacks were planned and executed in order to provide the U.S. with a pretext for going to war in the Middle East and, by extension, as a means of consolidating and extending the power of the Bush Administration. This would have given the Bush administration the justification to clamp down on civil liberties and invade Afghanistan and Iraq to ensure future supplies of oil. In some cases, hawks in the White House, especially former Vice President Dick Cheney, and members of the Project for the New American Century, a neoconservative think tank, have been accused of involvement in or awareness of the alleged plot.
Hint for the future — before referring someone to an article to prove your point, make sure that the article in question does, in fact, prove your point.
are you telling yourself that? because it is pretty good advice.
But maybe that is why you don’t ever actually link to the bullshit you spew.
You are an idiot RWR — thinking that GWB knew that the attacks were coming “Bin Laden Determined to Strike at the US” is not the same as thinking that he or anyone in the government was complicit in it.
One of your problems here is that you presume that no one here knows what words mean. You are free to wank away at this, but as long as you know you are wanking at this point, I guess that is OK.
ps. What Donviti said.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_Truth_movement
There, asshole.
And cassie, just have some integrity for once and admit that you are wrong and have had your head handed to you.
One of your problems here is that you presume that no one here knows what words mean
RWR might be one of the smartest guys in Texas. It probably works for him there.
my 11th grade daughter isn’t allowed to cite wikipedia.
And cassie, just have some integrity for once and admit that you are wrong and have had your head handed to you.
feel free to take your own advice
Why did I cite wikipedia? Because your co-blogger referred me to it. I don’t let my students use it as a source either — but since it appears to be a source that one of the site owners trusts and recommends on this topic, I considered it appropriate to do use it for her benefit.
I get it, so you don’t normally trust a website but if it supports your point, you are fine with it.
I’d say I’m shocked…but well you know
Signed of course… We need to fight for this… No more compromising!
Your co-blogger indicated what source was acceptable to her and proved her point. I merely followed her lead as a courtesy — especially after even her own source proved that she had no idea what she was talking about.
admit that you are wrong and have had your head handed to you.
Uh, no. Mainly because you still can’t process data. It is stunning that you are actually a teacher — but then you are in Texas.
Cassie — Truther Jane argued that 1/3 believe that Bush knew the attack was coming and didn’t do anything to stop it. That means 1/3 of Democrats are truthers, based upon the definition in the source YOU insisted upon.
Now you want to redefine the term to mean something different.
One-third of all Americans are stone-cold imbeciles, and it’s not just the truther question that proves it — that’s about how many people approved of GWB right to the end.