When from 65 to 83% of the American people want at least a STRONG public option and 61% want a single payer solution and multimillionaires in the Senate Finance Committee vote down a public option, we can say without a shadow of a doubt that they do not represent the American people. They represent the health care insurance companies who pay for their campaign funds and whom many of them probably own stock in.
Yesterday also proved that there is little difference between many Democrats and Republicans when it comes to their representing the upper 1% and Corporate America over the Americans.
They may think that it doesn’t matter because they get most of their money for their campaigns from corporations anyway, but they are wrong. Money is not enough in a real democracy as long as the people are engaged and enraged. The following Democrats may not have lost the healthcare battle, but they have lost the support of the progressives in their primaries. I am among thousands who will fight an blog against them and even small sites like IFLIZWEREQUEEN with its 5,500 daily average hits has far reaching influence because we live in a viral world in the 21st century.
THE FOLLOWING DEMOCRATS, INCLUDING ALL THE REPUBLICANS ON THE SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE, DON’T GIVE A DAMN THAT THE PRIVATE HEALTH CARE INSURANCE INDUSTRY IS KILLING THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS EVERY YEAR. THESE DESTINED FOR THE PASTURE BECAUSE THEY CHOSE CORPORATE AMERICA OVER THE PEOPLE. WE WILL FIND REAL DEMOCRATS TO REPLACE THEM. This revolution will not be fought with guns like some morons believe. It will be fought with votes. AND if you think that henceforth I’ll give a dime to the Democratic Party, you are wrong. I’ll support only the candidates of my choice–directly.
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Send these Corporate shills to the pasture: Note that only one is up for election in 2010–Blanche Lincoln. People in Arkansas, start looking for a Democrat to replace her.
Max Baucus Montana- elected 1978 next election is 2014. Baucus top contributors are Schering-Plough Corpa health care corporation; Aetna, Inc.; Goldman Sachs (how convenient since Baucus is the chair of the Senate finance committee); KKR & C0, a private equity corporation another financial institution to benefit from Baucus position as chair on the Senate Finance Committee; American International Group, another insurance company who has benefited greatly from Baucus’s position and government handouts. Here is an interesting note on his finances: Max Baucus is in the red -$40,000. Yes, the fiscally conservative Democrat whose budget hawk nature has frustrated liberals on health care reform is, himself, in the red, having spent nearly a million dollars on a new house in D.C. Source Yes, at least for the moment, Max Baucus is the poorest Democrat in Congress, but he must have a lot of confidence in his future, spending a million dollars on a home in this economy. I don’t know many Americans who would do that. Most of us are struggling to pay our current mortgages.
Kent Conrad (North Dakota, Middle Class.org gave Conrad a C in 2008 for representing the middle class; He should get an F for 2009; Conrad first took office in 1987 and his current term and career ends with the 2012 election) Conrad’s net worth: between $1,392,054 and $3,635,999; Conrad’s top contributor is DaVita a healthcare corporataion for dialysis services and equipment whose corporate headquarters are located in Colorado and whose other corporate offices are located in California–not North Dakota–Conrad represents these people over the people in North Dakota.)
Blanche Lincoln (Arkansas, Middle Class.org gave Lincoln a score of 78% for representing the middle class–not good enough for me; Lincoln first took office in 1999 and her term and career ends with the 2010 election; DaVita was also among Lincoln’s top five contributors; her net worth is $756,016 to $1,915,000
Bill Nelson Florida- Net Worth is $1,678,014 to $6,645,000; Nelson with his contributors is better positioned to help out war contractors. Nelson first took office in 2001 and his term ends in 2012
Tom Carper DE- Middleclass.org give Carper a C and his current score to day for this year is 78; Carper first took office in 2001 and his career ends with the election of 2012; Carper’s net worth is From $2,668,117 to $7,421,999; Senator Carper owns stock in Cardinal Health (purchased Dec. 2007); Wyeth labs; Carper’s top contributors are from the financial industry: JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, MBNA Corp and Bank of America.