Be in a TV ad -- and call Senate Democrats out!

by: AdamGreen

Wed Jun 24, 2009 at 13:25


PCCC co-founder Stephanie Taylor, over at Daily Kos

Last Friday, over coffee, Adam Green and I started talking about health care reform. And once we started talking, we couldn't stop. We couldn't believe that so many Democratic senators have the audacity to oppose the public health insurance option.

Polls show that 76% of Americans support the public option. But many of the same health and insurance interests that oppose the public option have given $80 million to sitting Democratic senators. $80. Million. Dollars.

It's easy to feel powerless on big issues like this. But we decided to do something about it. We made a TV ad calling them out. And now we're inviting you (and your friends) to put your name in the ad before we air it in Washington DC!

Click WeWantThePublicOption.com to see the ad -- and add your name.

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee will air this ad on CNN, MSNBC, The Daily Show, and other places that these senators and their staffers will be sure to notice. We'll continually rotate new names in. Please help this idea grow by recommending this post and emailing it on to anyone you think would like to add their name.

Together, we'll make the Senate listen to the vast majority of Americans who say: "We want the public option!"

Join the fun...WeWantThePublicOption.com

(And if you're on Kos, rec away!)

AdamGreen :: Be in a TV ad -- and call Senate Democrats out!

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This is excellent (4.00 / 2)
I've already added my name.

For some reason the links to the site in the post aren't working (at least for the moment), but I was able get to there by typing it in.  


Nobody ever went broke... (0.00 / 0)
Ah well.

I might as well entertain myself watching the Dems board the public option FAILboat.

I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD.  


Done (4.00 / 1)
Good work Adam.  

John McCain: Beacuse lobbyists should have more power

It would have been a better ad if... (4.00 / 5)
it had challenged Congressmen to either give us a strong public option, or stop making us pay for theirs. Also, bad press for an issue like this seems like too small a penalty to pay. Why is there no organized effort to dump any Senator who won't support a strong public option?

Why so timid? Aren't most of the Senators millionaires, anyway?

I would have made an ad like this :

"Senator DodoHead is worth X millions, and gets free, gold-plated medical insurance from you, the taxpayer. He's got a public option - and a completely free one, at that.* But he doesn't care if you get even a modest public option. Could this have something to do with the Z dollars that he received from the Big Pharma/Health Insurance industry?

Tell Senator DodoHead to either get us a strong public option, or YOU will show up on primary day and make sure that he gets the boot.

Here are some of Senator DodoHead's friends, who also don't care whether you get a public option, or not:

{Senator A - A $$}
{Senator B - B $$}
{Senator C - C $$}
etc.

"

* OK, I'm not 100% sure about this, so please fact-check it.

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* OK, I'm not 100% sure about this, so please fact-check it.

maybe this is relevant:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/w...


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Thanks (0.00 / 0)
The asterisk was actually referring to the question of whether most Senators are millionaires, though in light of your reference, I should have been less sure about their health care, also.

It's not 100% clear, but apparently, if they can lower themselves to go to the same military hospital that the President is entitled to go to, they don't pay anything.

Also significant, though completely unremarked upon in your reference, is the question of whether an active Senator gets dropped by their insurance company when they become seriously ill. Obviously, that would not be a good way to keep on the Senate's good side. Word travels fast in a gentleman's club of only 100....

There's one article I won't hold my breath waiting for - the one that talks about how Senator X got dropped when they needed their health care, the most.

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It's not 100% clear, but apparently, if they can lower themselves to go to the same military hospital that the President is entitled to go to, they don't pay anything.

I wish we could "lower" ourselves to the same hospital!

:p


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If you make an ad like this, then I'll donate $$ (0.00 / 0)
Your ad is too timid for me to get motivated enough to part with my money. Also, it should be shown in Senator Dodohead's home state, not Washington, D.C.. We want his constituents up in arms, not his staff a little distressed, but taking comfort from the fact that the constituents who can FIRE Senator Dodohead in a primary are unlikely to see the ad.

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I meant, if you make an ad like the one I indicated in the first post I made in this thread, entitled It would have been a better ad if...

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Look ma (4.00 / 1)
I'm on the TV!

Well, my name anyway. Signed it.

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Sadie! Where have you been? Holidays? Argentina? :D (0.00 / 0)
I missed you. Good that you're back!

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