The Young Turks: Breaking: Kucinich To Vote Yes On HCR

If the report is accurate, Luis Guiterrez is now the lone progressive holdout (on immigration reasons), although most believe he will vote Yes come vote time.

May everyone's head not explode!

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Breaking: Kucinich To Vote Yes On HCR | 7 comments (7 topical, 0 hidden)

I Support It n/t (none / 0)

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by HistoryByDay on 03/16/2010 09:47:40 PM EST

Hilarious (none / 0)

The Liebermans and Ben Nelsons weren't pressured whatsoever. The Obama Admin kept their powder dry until it was time to push through a weak, watered down corporate gift that masks skyrocketing costs with bloated subsidies.

THEN they pressured (Drum-Roll...) progressives.

by Tom Hanc on 03/16/2010 09:48:49 PM EST

: They (none / 0)

Would take a bullet for Lieberman. I'm just going to be laughing at this country before the 4 years come up though (from Canada), I don't see this bill getting better in any near future. For 4 years Reps will be attacking this thing and by the time it's enacted the public is going to be saying "WTF is this thing?". All liberals and progressives who supported this thing just stuck a knife in their own back.

If I was Denis I would come out and say, "This bill is going to be the worse things ever and I will vote yes, but if you idiots come crying to me later I will pimp smack you".

by Alloy on 03/16/2010 10:31:58 PM EST

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L0L At Hamsher (none / 0)

"A thousand people have donated over $16,000 to Dennis since yesterday to thank him for standing up for what he believes in. We'll be asking him to return it."

Besides the absolute hilarity of her fail, what a lying sack of shit she's proved herself to be.

Shortly after blasting Democrats for appearing on Fox News and giving them legitimacy, what does she do? Go on Fox News. And what does she do? Plug herself and blast Democrats. Could that be anymore hypocritical?

Then this bizarre fiction. That post is whacko on so many levels. For starters, she wasn't singled out, it was a blanket statement on those that vote no. Second, Herseth-Sandlin is a conservadem who opposes the bill for reasons that have nothing to do with abortion.

Hamsher shown herself to be perhaps a pathological liar, perhaps just liar who is using this niche for her own gain, but is definitely nearing Larry Johnson of NoQuarter into just downright batshit crazy territory.

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by HistoryByDay on 03/16/2010 10:20:14 PM EST

This bill is being pushed like the Iraq war. (none / 0)

There where very few Dems that stood up to the Iraq war, and the nation paid the price.

This will be another nail in the coffin of the so called Democratic Party.

by wowisdabomb on 03/17/2010 10:08:02 AM EST

This bill is a win for us (none / 0)

All of the talk about this bill being nothing more than a corporate subsidy leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It's the same as saying that food stamps are a corporate hand-out. Yes, the money eventually makes it's way into the hands of a business that provides the end product, but that's because we want people to be able to afford and purchase these goods. You are forgetting who the policy actually helps.

I'm with Cenk 100% when it comes to the politics. The only step I can't take with his logic is that because the bill doesn't include a public option it is a bad bill and must be killed.

1) Killing the bill will result in the status quo for many years to come. Perhaps not 20 years because the death spiral of the insurance companies is going to come into effect a lot sooner than that.

2) This is essentially the policy proposed during the democratic primaries. Yeah so we don't have a public option. Get over it. The public option was never going to rein in costs. The CBO estimated that its premiums were going to be slightly higher than the private plans it was competing against.

by publius on 03/17/2010 02:12:05 PM EST

This Is Great (none / 0)

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsm emo.com/2010/03/from-progre ssive-holdout-to-whipping-h ealth-care----how-dennis-ku cinich-is-helping-dems.php? ref=fpblg

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A few hours after Rep. Dennis Kucinich switched his support to become a critical vote for the health care bill, he took to the House floor to ask wavering colleagues to join him. Astonished colleagues pointed to Kucinich (D-OH) darting from member to member on the House floor yesterday, saying privately they'd never seen him get so involved in whipping a vote.

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by HistoryByDay on 03/18/2010 12:14:03 PM EST

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