| Our "Democratic" Senator has signed onto a letter asking for more time to kill health insurance reform.
While the Senators are polite, and say they want more time to study the proposals, the fact is, they want the extra time so their wealthy benefactors - the health insurance industry - can scare Americans into believing that they are going to lose their health insurance under any legislation currently circulating in Congress. The fact is, any health insurance reform bill that does not include a public, national health insurance program will be a bill designed to pad the bottom line of the health insurance companies.
I guess the Senator just doesn't care about the 810 Louisianans will lose their health insurance this week, nor the 3,350 Louisianans that will lose their health insurance this month, nor the 42,350 Louisianans that will lose their health insurance this year. (pdf alert)
That's what happens when your Senator looks at her position as a job, and not a cause. Because if she treated being a Senator from Louisiana as a cause, she'd be more likely to fight to improve people's lives, the electoral consequences of her actions be damned. But no, because she looks at being Senator as a job, she worries about raising money for her re-election. Thus, she doesn't want to piss off the people who donated $1.6 million that much.
Otherwise, she'd not only be out there answering questions from her constituents, but leading the fight for a national public health insurance program. But no, she's canceled two events where she could have faced questions from angry constituents.
Be a leader, Senator. You come from the state that gave us Huey Long. Huey fought for us all ... regardless of socioeconomic position and race. You've done the same in areas that don't threaten your ability to raise campaign cash. Something tells me that if Huey were alive today, he'd be coming up with quotes like this about your campaign contributors:
"We swapped the tyrant 3,000 miles away for a handful of financial slaveowning overlords who make the tyrant of Great Britain seem mild."
And then he'd call you a coward for not standing up to them for US.
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