NEW AD: Progressives vs. Olympia Snowe

by: AdamGreen

Mon Sep 21, 2009 at 22:04

Hi, folks. Meet Nancy Randolph from Maine -- a very nice lady I've talked to a lot in the last week as we prepared a new TV ad released today.

Before her first husband died of cancer, they thought they had great health insurance...until their insurance company denied him needed care. That drove them into bankruptcy.

Now, the senator who Nancy voted for -- Republican Olympia Snowe -- opposes the public health insurance option. And Nancy has something to say about that.

Click here to see the PCCC and DFA's new TV ad featuring Nancy holding Olympia Snowe accountable.

Then, help put it on TV.

Our goal is to flood Maine and DC with $100,000 worth of these ads -- to really ramp up the pressure on Snowe. In just a few hours, we're ~~$32,000~~ ~~$34,000~~ ~~$36,000~~ $45,000 of the way there -- but we do need your help.

As you know, this a critical time to put pressure on Snowe.

All week, the powerful Senate Finance Committee will take important health care votes -- including on whether to include a public option. Snowe will be a key vote on the Finance Committee.

Markos' recent poll shows Maine voters favor a public option 2 to 1. Among independent voters, it's 3 to 1. Yet Snowe urged President Obama to take the public option off the table "because it's universally opposed by all Republicans in the Senate."

Olympia Snowe represents a progressive state -- and she needs to be accountable to her constituents. Click here to help the Progressive Change Campaign Committee & Democracy for America put our new accountability ad on TV in Maine right now.

Thanks so much.

AdamGreen :: NEW AD: Progressives vs. Olympia Snowe

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NEW AD: Progressives vs. Olympia Snowe | 6 comments

"Public health insurance option" (0.00 / 0)

A new name, then? Not "public health insurance plan?"

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

by: lambert @ Tue Sep 22, 2009 at 02:15:06 AM UTC

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No, THANK YOU! (0.00 / 0)

by: glacierpeaks @ Tue Sep 22, 2009 at 03:38:36 AM UTC

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Why not walk and chew gum at the same time? (4.00 / 2)

The ad is good, as far as it goes. However, PCCC and DFA are missing a golden opportunity. And that opportunity is to go after Obama's crappy and duplicitous leadership on the healthcare issue.

Why aren't there any PCCC and DFA ads which call out Obama on his lies about negotiating healthcare on C-SPAN and which highlight his backstabbing deal with Tauzin? Such verbiage could be integrated with the Senator or Representative target-du-jour.

Is this a matter of lack of courage, lack of imagination, or is it because PCCC and DFA can't imagine taking a good lick at a member of their own Party? You may recall that I criticized a previous ad as too mild, asking "Can't you hit him harder than that?"

Well? What's the problem, here?

As far as I can guess, pulling punches is a crappy way of "making him (Obama) do it".

Don't you find it almost surreal that the Republicans aren't calling out Obama for his healthcare lies? What on earth could make the likes of Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity talk about "Death Panels", which isn't in the bills, but NOT talk about keeping Medicare Part D essentially intact?*

Well, the answer is obvious, isn't it? The above mentioned demagogues are shills, and they wouldn't want to embarass the Republicans or the pharmaceutical companies, even if it means passing up a golden opportunity to smack Obama.

Consequently, while it's probably not necessary, it may be wise to ensure that not just Snowe, and not just Obama, but the Republican Party as whole be aggressively challenged in healthcare ads. When you make an ad like that, I'm in for $50. And, I suspect, you'll get millions of progressives who are in for $$, also.

Here's a suggestion for how an ad that's worthy of my scarce $$ would start off:

"Shame on Olympia Snowe, shame on President Obama, and shame on the Republican Party".

* I don't listen to those guys, so unless what they say ends up on Democratic Underground and I happen to catch it, I have no idea what they're saying. However, as I havne't heard or read anything - at all - about the right wing spin machine calling out Obama for his treachery, I assume they are pulling their punches, also, for fear of taking out lots of Republicans, also.

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by: metamars @ Tue Sep 22, 2009 at 03:49:45 AM UTC

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Snowe Now Negotiating With Herself (4.00 / 2)

Last week a big deal was made that Snowe wouldn't support a triggered PO in Baucus' committee. I thought this just showed she was a better negotiator than Democrats, keeping the trigger as her compromise before, but not her personal preference.

However, Snowe introduced a trigger amendment in committee today. She is now negotiating with herself in the same sense that Obama and the Democrats have been for a while. This is very good news, I think. It tells me she can be pressured from the left and perhaps might vote for a plan with the Public Option by the time this is all done. Or, at least, not filibuster it.

by: Mark Matson @ Tue Sep 22, 2009 at 05:32:44 AM UTC

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Expanded medicaid. (4.00 / 2)

No cost containment, no universal health care, no option - just expanded medicaid with a mandate to buy insurance. Obama could have expanded medicaid with a change in regulations. Who needed all of this for that.

by: dkmich @ Tue Sep 22, 2009 at 09:19:33 AM UTC

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NO! Then Legal Eagles Can't Marbury V Madison away (0.00 / 0)

writing phone books of regulations and laws what is or isn't an insurance or is or isn't a plan or is or isn't coverage

or is or isn't yet ANOTHER legalistic waste of fucking time, well, except for the highly paid parasites trying to determine what is is or isn't this week.

the majesty of the law (think of peter sellers and inspector clouseau)

simplicity doesn't employ hordes of parasite consultatns, lawyers, management ...

rmm.

It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way

by: seabos84 @ Tue Sep 22, 2009 at 12:14:06 PM UTC

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