What a jackass:
Yesterday CNN’s Rick Sanchez aired a segment from a health care town hall where a weeping constituent explained to Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) that her husband’s health insurer refuses to cover his treatment for a traumatic brain injury. As the woman continued to cry, Coburn told her that his office would try to assist her individually.
So why is MoveOn.Org and the other groups pushing for health care reform making sure every single American with a problem is not sending Tom Coburn mail, emailing him asking for help, and calling his office to help him? Why is there not already a “Tom Coburn’s Medical Miracles” website up for people to write “Dear Tom” letters? Why can’t Democrats play this game like Republicans?
Christ on a crutch, the entire Republican health care proposal can be summed up as “Voting No and blaming Obama for not being bipartisan enough,” and the Democrats and their left-wing allies are just hopeless.
Maude
We could all clog his email with requests.
What a turd. Trying to make hisself look like a human being.
Warren Terra
My god, the Republican plan is a Public Beer Heiress Option. Or at least it’s a similar “don’t worry, you’ll find a sugar-daddy” plan.
Steve
I’m sending him my health care bills.
feebog
I wouldn’t trust Coburn to diagnose a hangnail, much less help me with a real medical problem. The man is a Fakir of worst kind.
Warren Terra
@ feebog, #4
No-one is suggesting that anyone seek Dr. Coburn’s medical help, nor is he offering. Instead, he appears to be putting forward his services as a provider of health insurance, or someone who will force your health insurer to pay up – a sort of Single Tom Coburn plan. His medical opinion don’t enter into it.
Little Dreamer
When I lived in a Republican family, it was encouraged to seek the help of an individual Republican senator for assistance with a problem that was not easily solved on one’s own.
Many years ago, I had a problem getting my belongings back after having moved to Germany and back to the states after the breakup of my marriage. The military was holding all of my belongings and would not release them until my ex was returning to the states (which was supposed to take about two more years).
As a result of this situation, my parents pushed me to get Senator Roth (now deceased) involved in the retrieval of my belongings. I have to say, he got my stuff back for me, so it worked. This is the way Republicans do things. When I suggested calling Senator Biden, I was told “oh no, he won’t do anything, you have to call Senator Roth”.
KJ
Maybe some enterprising young man or woman will make that suggestion in a DailyKos diary.
Tax Analyst
“Christ on a crutch”
Too bad Senator Tom wasn’t ’round back then, he pro’lly cudda helped that poor fella.
Zifnab
Because one woman without insurance is a tragedy. Forty seven million? A statistic.
arguingwithsignposts
You’re assuming Dr. Tom knows how to use e-mail. Given his total lack of understanding of the health care issue as evidenced by his performance on MTP the week Rachel was on, that’s a major assumption.
Coburn is another example in the continuing series: Just Because Someone has an Advanced Degree Doesn’t Make Them Less of an Asshole.
General Winfield Stuck
Well, one thing for sure, Democrats do what they do in the fashion of a Chinese Fire Drill in a house of poison spiders. But somehow, over the eons of American existence, they finally get things done. SS, Medicare, Civil Rights, etcc///
The road to success is long and strewn with dem causualties, usually, but not always self inflicted ones. But what counts is getting to the finish line. Maybe the urgency this time won’t be enough to focus the liberal mind into unified action, and things will have to get even more urgent before that happens.
But what is happening now with dems, even with big majorities and a mandate to reform, is not surprising, at least to me. It’s how we roll. Always been that way, and likely always will be. If we weren’t that way we would be republicans and fall in lockstep behind supreme leader, and be damned with all the namby pamby divided government and separation of powers nonsense.
arguingwithsignposts
@Little Dreamer:
Apparently, Obama learned the ways of the Senator long before he became one.
DougJ
Shouldn’t he at least have inspected her countertops first?
RSA
“Individually.” At first I thought this meant Coburn would help as an individual, because the obvious interpretation is just too blindingly stupid. Oh, well.
For what it’s worth, I expect that Coburn probably doesn’t even realize the depth of the disconnect. He’s thinking, “It’s not government help I’ll be giving her–I’m just going to have my office call up her insurance company and lean on them a little.” I doubt he realizes the implications of “governing” in this fashion.
DougJ
Why is there not already a “Tom Coburn’s Medical Miracles” website up for people to write “Dear Tom” letters?
How funny would it be for him to get thousands of emails asking for help, each with a jpeg of the sender’s countertops?
Maybe it would only be funny to me.
MikeJ
It seems like instead of waiting for the travel health care carnival to come to town, people should simply camp out at their senator’s office.
Maybe I’ll put up some signs. No Insurance? Need health care?
915 Second Avenue, Suite 3206
Nothing on Cantwell’s web page about public option. Of course I’d never really do it, I’d feel rotten about tricking people who need help. It would be a way to make the point though.
General Winfield Stuck
I can see it now
Free sterilization for uninsured losers.
cleek
the Democratic party is where politicians who have no desire to do anything go to prepare themselves for lucrative careers in lobbying.
kay
It is horrible being a Democrat.
I just admit that, right up front.
It’s there on the membership form, right above the signature line, but the print is teeny-tiny.
The Other Steve
I’m game. I can register a domain and setup wordpress. Need help with content though. Anyone? Send email to theothersteve256 at the gmail
mcc
Government is not the answer to your brain cancer?
Tax Analyst
DougJ said:
“Why is there not already a “Tom Coburn’s Medical Miracles” website up for people to write “Dear Tom” letters?
How funny would it be for him to get thousands of emails asking for help, each with a jpeg of the sender’s countertops?
Maybe it would only be funny to me.”
The idea has a certain twisted charm.
I don’t think “Dear Tom” would get it, but then there probably are a plethora of things the dear Senator would fail to get.
And he’d probably get mad at me for using an indecent, smutty word like “plethora”, too.
Little Dreamer
@arguingwithsignposts:
Helping people should be considered a human trait, not a political one – I am just pointing out that in my recollections, the way Republican senators work is individually for each person who calls them. They like to quietly work through back channels. There seems to be this belief that if someone with “Senator” in their name and the GOP backing them makes a call and complains about some certain situation that the walls around the recipient of that call will shake loose of their foundations and threaten to kill him/her.
General Winfield Stuck
@kay:
A new dem credo.
If you ain’t confused, you don’t know what’s going on
Max
Slightly OT but still related to the douchbag republicans…
Does anyone follow Rush Limbaugh? I don’t. As a result, I’m in the dark about what Mr. Hillbilly Heroin means by…
“President Obama wants to mandate circumcision”
What’s that all about? Is that the new wingnut line of attack?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/25/rush-limbaugh-disses-jay_n_268678.html
arguingwithsignposts
@kay:
Agreed. There is a certain charm of (for lack of a better term) “stability” in being a wingnut and believing the boot-strapping, free-market, christianist, we’re always right mantra of the modern GOP.
It keeps at bay the howling winds of modernity, logic, reason, and compassion.
The alternative is to wrestle with a messy world filled with varying shades of gray, heartache and suffering, and how to break those nutjobs out of their certitude.
Lots of face/palm and head/desk action, too.
protected static
@MikeJ: Cantwell is being… squishy. Big surprise, I know.
bayville
Great idea, but that would be so unbipartisanish.
Remember, this is the post-partisan era. Not the time to throw mud. Conservatives would never do that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C07mtAT74uM
arguingwithsignposts
@Little Dreamer:
Agree with the first part. As to the second, I used to live in a heavily democratic district, and similar “constituent services” were provided by the democratic reps.
Perhaps the idea is that if everyone knew they could get a little extra help from the congresscritter, the congresscritters wouldn’t get anything done because of all the constituents knocking on their doors for special end-arounds.
And YMMV.
Michael
My personal vote is that the medically underinsured pack their bills up and walk into their local megachurch of Evangelical/Fundamentalist leanings, demanding that the charitable beneficiary of deductible contributions help out as a matter of fulfilling its public policy favorite status.
The on-camera response should be outstanding.
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford
Because the rules of the game change once Democrats start playing.
wasabi gasp
Gov’t Guy Tom is heading down a slippery slope to tiny mustaches. And, that poor black Mexican criminal immigrant terrorist lady needs to pay her bills, stat.
robertdsc
Why do you want to make David Broder cry?
Little Dreamer
@arguingwithsignposts:
Well, I can’t say if Biden would have assisted or not. I didn’t call him due to the admonition against such a call from my parents. I only know that I was the recipient of a favor from a Repub senator who was able to move mountains to help me when I couldn’t get something I needed.
zoe kentucky in pittsburgh
The other day I read a Letter to the Editor in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that illustrates perfectly the level of cognotive dissonance and empty rhetoric going on in right-wing circles:
All of this written by a guy WHOSE ENTIRE FAMILY DOES NOT HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE.
Morbo
Answer: Because they would be accused of astroturfing and then the Democratically led congress would pass a resolution condemning the uncivil actions against one of their dear friends.
zoe kentucky in pittsburgh
Grrr. (Sure do miss that editing function.) The blockquoting didn’t work on my post above– the end of his letter was “Laissez faire!”
JenJen
O/T, but out of morbid curiosity, decided to attempt to view Glenn Beck this evening. Holeeeeee shizz, I consider myself well-informed but after almost an hour of this nutbar, I truly cannot believe just how awful he is. Wow, just wow.
He just announced his special guest tomorrow is Rush Limbaugh. I think my television might walk out on me if I dare watch.
AhabTRuler
@General Winfield Stuck:
…angry and buttsore, GTFO, ’cause you’re not a Dem!
Demo Woman
Sorry but why is this comment on this article? Are you trying to say but they are bad too? If my kid came home and tried this shit, that would have been enough to ground them.
The Democratic Party has problems and a post about the problems is fine but the they are just as bad does not fit on this post.
arguingwithsignposts
@Little Dreamer:
That’s a good thing, and sadly needed more often than any of us probably know.
It’s not always what you know, but too frequently who you know (in terms of getting things done). I’m sure there are a good number of politicians on both sides of the aisle who will help a constituent in a pinch, depending on the circumstances.
andrea
@J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford:
Great. Politics as Calvinball.
Jager
Mrs J’s company is looking at a health plans. The company isn’t going to contribute, but they gave the blessing to form a group. The employees, all 189 of them, would pay about 330 a month for individual policies, the married w/families will pay just over 700, about half are married, they are all young, the average age is 31. After dinner last night, our CPA nieghbor came over and we went through the plan, his conclusion…don’t waste the money! His reasoning; The premium of $3960 a year gives them 1 annual check up with tests, around 600 and they will pay 120 out of pocket. They get a 15 dollar co-pay on generics, most generics cost 20-25 a month. The Dr can’t write a scrip for more than 30 days at a time, so the cost could be 180 a year out of pocket if you are on medication for any length of time. The list went on and on…when we got to the major medical, Paul said all this insures is a slightly smaller bankrupcy than if you were uninsured…he went on to say, what the policy does insure is a fat profit for Anthem Blue Cross-Blue Sheild! What a fucking country!
arguingwithsignposts
@zoe kentucky in pittsburgh:
So the logical question to ask this guy is, should his family get sick, since there is no “common good,” should a hospital have to treat his family member, since they know they won’t get paid?
The stupid in that letter is truly amazing.
arguingwithsignposts
@Jager:
Which raises an interesting point. One of the GOP talking points about HCR is lifting the ban on interstate competition from insurance cos. They assume that this will lead to greater competition within these states. I don’t assume that. My theory is that the 39 BCBS cos would eventually merge to form one BCBS, there would be more consolidation in other companies as well, and we’d end up with fewer companies providing even shittier insurance.
Am I wrong on that theory?
Demo Woman
@arguingwithsignposts: NO
freelancer
@JenJen:
Yikes, you’d have had better odds keeping your head from asploding playing Russian Roulette.
Zifnab
@Demo Woman:
He’s just bemoaning the fact that Dems continue to struggle against such an incompetent adversary. Imagine watching a football game where the opposing team threw some of the ugliest passes you’ve ever seen and the defense never bothered to pick them off.
Tom Coburn is easy bait. We should have seen mailers going out and TV ads hitting the screen and wet-eyed folks without insurance filling the airwaves as a resounding cry of “Why doesn’t Tom Coburn care about me?” floods the media by the end of the day. Pulling this shit is akin to the “Government wants to take over Medicare” cannard and should be EASY to swat down. And yet the Democrats continue to flail in the wind, helpless against the clutz-jitsu of their adversaries.
Demo Woman
@Zifnab: It’s not that I disagree with his comment. I do disagree with that type of comment on a post about the Senator from Oklahoma. The democrats have nothing to do with the asshole from Oklahoma.
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford
@zoe kentucky in pittsburgh:
I think were supposed to consider it noble and righteous.
Warren Terra
@ Max, #25
There have been several studies indicating that circumcised men are less likely to contract HIV from heterosexual intercourse than are uncircumsized men. In response to this, some public health officials have suggested that circumcision should be more common, even be the norm for male infants, and went so far as to suggest that adult males in certain high-risk groups should be circumcised. There was an article in the New York Times yesterday about this suggestion.
Needless to day, none of this has anything to do with Obama, with any proposed legislation, or with the force of law.
KCinDC
The problem with using this incident to embarrass Coburn is that it means Malkin’s flying monkeys will seek out and harass that poor woman who has more than enough to deal with with her husband’s health problems.
Tsulagi
Yeah, Pubs not wanting anyone messing with THE GREATEST HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN THE WORLD* (* for R-campaign contributions) saddle up to tilt at non-existent death panel windmills that would kill granny. Brilliantly, the Dems take the R-charge seriously eventually removing the offending amendment written by a conservative Pub. That is what has dominated the healthcare reform debate to date.
Meanwhile, this woman and her husband meet the real death panels. Insurance carriers who can arbitrarily deny coverage. You would think the Dems would spend less time on the defensive responding to every tard charge by Pubs and maybe talking more about the thousands with similar stories as this woman. And things like 62% of bankruptcies filed in 2007 were due to medical expenses. And of those, nearly 80% had health insurance.
But then you would likely be wrong. When the pols return from recess, look forward to seeing which weed patch freshly outraged Pubs next lead the Dems into.
ricky
Surely if the woman would just sleep with one of Coburn’s C-Street roomies he could find her a $96 K gift to help her partially offset her husband’s medical bills. Provided her husband is a personal friend of the Senator she sleeps with.
He will keep it confidential because he is a doctor and a deacon.
JustMe
Well, I can’t say if Biden would have assisted or not. I didn’t call him due to the admonition against such a call from my parents.
It is quite common in various states for one of the senators to be the high-minded “statesman” on the senate floor and the other senator to be the go-to-guy for constituent services. In Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy was the guy you called to get things done. In New York, Moynihan was the “elder statesman” and D’Amato was “senator pothole.” From 2001-2008, those roles were assumed by Sens. Clinton and Schumer, respectively.
gocart mozart
Hey zoe kentucky in pittsburgh,
If you or one of your family members gets seriously sick or injured, good luck with the bankruptcy. I’ll have a beer for you and offer up a hardy “Laissez faire!” toast.
General Winfield Stuck
Maybe OT
Whoopity doopity doooo!
My terrific Senator Bingaman, who is one of the so called gang-of-six in the Senate Finance Committee has just come out in full support of the Reconciliation Process in the Senate.
Or a simple 51 vote majority to pass HC reform.
freelancer
@gocart mozart:
She was quoting some moran from her paper. Everything but the last line of her post should have been blockquoted.
Duh.
Indylib
I would like to see more of this. Dems not on board with the public option need to be primaried.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/25/joe-sestak-senate-candida_n_268608.html
Go Navy!
Zifnab
@ricky: Win
Warren Terra
Ricky ftw.
JenJen
@freelancer: I know, I know!! What to do?
BFR
My theory is that the 39 BCBS cos would eventually merge to form one BCBS, there would be more consolidation in other companies as well, and we’d end up with fewer companies providing even shittier insurance.
That’s the most likely outcome – I think you could come up with a functioning 100% private insurance sector, but it would require some pretty hefty anti-trust regulations on top of it (in addition to all the other stuff under discussion: mandates, subsidies, end to recission & pre-existing condition exclusions).
In other words, you’re almost certainly right.
steve s
Maybe the Dems would have more spine, if they had supporters who would at least wait until there’s a bill written before giving up.
Libby
I had the same reaction as everyone else. I think everybody without health insurance and everybody who ever gets refused treatment if they are insured should be calling Coburn immediately.
Zifnab
@steve s: Cheers to that.
ricky
@Zifnab:
I really deplore this woman seeking government help.
With a little initiative her husband could have gotten his brain injury committing a felony and then he could have taken advantage of health care provided in a privatized prison somewhere amid the waving wheat that sure smells sweet.
eric
Surely, if he was really sick, the doctors would stand up and fight for him? Or, maybe the hospital administrators? Perhaps, the insurance claims representative? I mean, really, the guy struck out three times: he just cant be that sick now can he.
The Right Wing response to the health care debate has led me to answer my own question about Right Wing hatred of the French.
It is pretty simple — the French surrendered in WWII. Welfare recipients give up. Whiners of all stripes give up. it is not American exceptionalism that motivates this crowd it is PERSONAL exceptionalism. “Aren’t great for continuing in my life and not complaining and seeking government handouts. Look at me; look at my fortitude. I am wonderful.” (Put aside the fact that these people complain a lot.) These people want to be congratulated for not giving up and for seeing their straights as just as bad or worse than the whiners. It is not until they get to that truly horrific point that they realize they can’t do it themselves. They see suffering as a badge of honor because they know they are stuck in their station and that is all there is to it.
Whiners on the other hand want “more” and more has to come from someone else. So, if I can suffer, you can suffer and your more can’t come from me. Man up, bitches.
These people lack compassion and hope because, for many of them, their own lives have no hope and no one is going to help them and they know it.
So, never surrender, not if you are french or suffering. This hysterical woman is surrendering, she is giving up and that is unacceptable.
(Please note that I am not sanctioning Vichy complicity with the Nazis.)
eric
ricky
@steve s:
Are you suggesting many Democratic critics have been reading those VA death books and are pulling the plug
before a medical professional officially announces they have what they commonly demonstrate: panic induced brain seizure?
Shalimar
and the Democrats and their left-wing allies are just hopeless.
Most of them intentionally. Health reform is going to be a giveaway to the insurance companies, this whole dog and pony show of giving a damn about the uninsured is a put on to fool the rubes (i.e. liberals).
binzinerator
@Little Dreamer
@RSA:
This is also the way officials in Third World governments do things. And the Mafia.
scarshapedstar
Call up your neighbor. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
I’m pretty sure that if this woman were living in France, the government would not tell her to look to her goddamn neighbor, unless her neighbor is a neurosurgeon or a physical therapist or a speech pathologist. Nor would they send him to the death panel.
Makewi
Feingold – No bill before Christmas. What a lying wingnut. Clearly he hates sick poor people.
freelancer
@Makewi:
Wow, Makewi brings the funny!
General Winfield Stuck
There’s not going to be nuttin. No Stimulus with more money for liberal causes. no research funding for alternative energy, No CHIPS for kids to get healthcare, You can forget about getting anyone but a right winger on SCOTUS, and you ladies, sorry, but no getting equal pay as men. And above all, no Special Prosecutor to investigate torture.
So you rubes are just pissing in the wind on health care reform. Ain’t gonna happen, no way no how. Obama has failed, so get over yourselves supporters, he just pulled the wool over yer eyes and you are blind as moonbats in a Belfry/
nevsky42
You know, my congressman Tom Perriello (VA-5, a rather conservative district) had a great response to an older wingnut at the health care forum I attended (paraphrase):
mcd
Republicans simply make up the rules of the game; Democrats are stoopid enough to try to play …
BombIranForChrist
Some people (Nader) think that the Republicans and Democrats are essentially the same.
I don’t really believe that, but I do believe that the two parties are co-dependent.
The Democrats wouldn’t be in power if it wasn’t for Republican governing incompetence and the Republicans wouldn’t be in power if it wasn’t for Democratic political incompetence. Wrap a nice stinking cabbage leaf of corruption around both parties, and you see why our sorry political system cycles from one disaster to another throughout the ages.
Axe Diesel Palin
Opposing healthcare reform is the sign of a true patriot. Don’t you all remember “Give me bankruptcy or give me death”.
Who said that?
kay
@steve s:
I’m actually not giving up. I’m pretty sure anger is my motivating force.
I was never really a “hope” Democrat. I read that we’re called “Nixon Democrats”, which is very funny. It means motivated by complete disgust with the alternative.
Max
@Warren Terra: Thank you. Rush’s comments now make even less sense.
gocart mozart
Sorry Zoe, my bad.
Pug
Good ole Senator Tom tells the weeping woman whose husband has a traumatic brain injury that “the government is not the answer”. Then, a bunch of greedy old pricks on Medicare applaud the comment.
If health care reform fails, the Democrats should put up a bill to repeal Medicare and pass it. Let’s get everybody on a level playing field here and start over.
Anne Laurie
@Warren Terra:
Believe me, if I were looking for an obstetrician, I wouldn’t want Dr. Coburn’s hands up my hoo-haa either.
@Little Dreamer:
No, the senators (and representatives) on both sides of the aisle are known as Resources of Last Resort for “constitutent services” like pestering recalcitrant insurance companies, finding summer jobs for the teenage children of local voters, etc. (And, of course, both sides are convinced that those guys over there, they can’t do nuthin ta help ya, feh!) That’s why an overwhelming percentage of voters consistently tell pollsters that their Congresscritter is good-to-excellent, even while complaining that Congress-as-a-whole is nothing but a pack of lying worthless weasels. The problem is that one Senator can only do so much, and only for some small percentage of their constituents, depending on the skills of the Senator at amassing power & influence and the skills of each constitutent at framing the issue in a way that their senator can help. The drawbacks of a society where ‘who you know’ and/or ‘how well you work the refs’ are what’s behind the slogan “We want a society of law, not a society of men.”
Incidentally, one reason Teddy Kennedy has been such a long-term Senator is that he, and his office, have always taken these million small acts of constituent service very seriously — he is renowned for pursuing every request to help unsnarl the bureaucracy obstructing a retiree’s missing Social Security checks or a prospective adoptee’s visa. But he’s “the Lion of the Senate” because he’s spent his career working to ensure that all Americans won’t have to rely on the luck of living in a district where their senator will, and can, go the extra mile. It really shocked a lot of professional cynics in the media how many people told them, after Kennedy’s brain tumor was diagnosed, that Teddy had reached out to families seeking treatment at Boston’s medical centers, over the course of many years, even when those families were not “his” voters and under circumstances where there was no hope of favorable publicity.
Annie
Coburn’s response focused on how instead of depending on the “government,” we should ask more of the community. Families, neighbors, communities should help those in need.
My question to Coburn would be: “Are you going to publicly decline your government-sponsored health care and depend on your community for support? Since this is your solution for health care reform and quality care, why don’t you be first in line to support your own proposal?”
We should be making an ad with this in mind. Ask Tom to step up to the plate and take his own advice. The ad should state that Tom proposes community support instead of quality health care. What do you think?
This nonsense just makes me want to scream. We should be using their own words against them to expose the lies/myths/and obstruction to genuine debate.
This is all about subverting the administration. This has nothing to do with respect, regard, and value for quality care.
jenniebee
@arguingwithsignposts: It’s worse than that, actually. There are about 10 companies that insure everybody, and they already more or less exist in all 50 states. What most people don’t know about insurance is that what it covers in any state is the minimum that state law requires it to cover. Cali and Mass have much higher standards for what have to be covered than does say, Oklahoma, but since the choice in Cali and Mass is either to provide the coverage at a price people can and will pay (and make a profit) or not to play in the Massachusetts market at all, insurance companies choose to insure Massachusetts and Cali.
Allowing insurance across state lines just creates a rush to the bottom. If that happened, you could expect to see Massachusetts & Cali insurance companies raise their rates significantly sending customers to their lower-service, lower-priced branches in Alabama and Oklahoma. It’s basically a way to move everybody who’s insured now from “insured” to “underinsured.”
rs
@nevsky42: I watched a town meeting from Virginia on C Span earlier tonight held by Jim Moran with help from Howard Dean (the Tigers are on the west coast- ordinarily I’d be watching baseball at that time). It was the best non-sports TV I can recall watching recently. While most of the reform opponents acquitted themselves alright, a couple (especially the woman who asked the final question) would probably have been institutionalized in a bygone era. Really.
At the beginning of the meeting, Moran systematically addressed a dozen myths that have been propagated about the House bill. When it came to “Death Panels”, he pointed out how it had been authored by a Republican from Georgia named Nicholson, obviously figuring that his conservative credentials could win over some of the crowd. I would have preferred he’d not have mentioned Nicholson’s party affiliation and instead just said “this is the guy responsible, this is his phone number, call and tell him how you feel”.
Sock puppet of the Great Satan
MSNBC just announcing Ted Kennedy just died. Tragic, tragic he didn’t live to see healthcare reform passed.
Mayken
@Sock puppet of the Great Satan: Yes, heartbreaking. I thought he would hang on. Rip, Mr. Kennedy!
bago
I@MikeJ:
That’s just ten blocks from where I am eating at wasabi bistro. I can go make mean faces if youneed.
Paul in KY
I don’t think ads should try & nail Coburn for a rare case of compassion, What the ads should do is have real people giving their weepy tales of being denied by the Insurance Companies.
Really venal, stupid denials (which I know are out there). Show the people that Insurance Companies only want you as a customer when you’re healthy.
Chris Andersen
What a brilliant idea! You really should pass it on to the DNC, MoveOn, Jane Hamsher and others. I’m sure one of them could help set up something like this.