MoveOn has generously joined in on our Standing Up For The Public Option fundraiser and it’s helped keep the thermometer rising. When last I looked we were over 300,000 dollars and over 5000 donors. I can’t wait to wake up and see where we are next. (I wrote this post at 11:15 PM Thursday)
UPDATE: MoveOn.org Joins The Battle
If you’ve noticed that our thermometer is going through the roof today, that’s because MoveOn is in the process of sending out a request to their millions of members to join the effort to thank the Democrats in Congress who have drawn the line in the sand for a robust public option and real health care reform beyond the siphoning of public money that the insurance companies and their congressional shills want.
I was watching MSNBC and CNN yesterday and all I was hearing was that progressives supporting the public option are left to the left. WTF does that mean? When Bush used reconciliation to pass his massive tax cut for the rich bill, the media didn’t say that it was a right to the right position. We get tarred for having a brain.
And now Terry McCauliffe of all people has said that he’s for the public option and is offering to do a fundraiser for anyone who endorsers it in Virginia. Wow.
Not Larry Sabato has worked with Terry McAuliffe to do a major fundraiser for any Virginia candidate who makes the pledge (an effort probably worth six figures).
Terry McAuliffe? Wow! That’s an effort! In fact, I’m going back on the Blue America page and donating some more.
And a new poll shows 77% percent of Americans still support the public option.
Yet, while the issue continues to be hotly debated in the halls of Congress, a new poll by Survey USA finds that the idea is as popular as ever amongst the American public:
More than three out of every four Americans feel it is important to have a “choice” between a government-run health care insurance option and private coverage, according to a public opinion poll released on Thursday.
A new study by SurveyUSA puts support for a public option at a robust 77 percent, one percentage point higher than where it stood in June.
The SurveyUSA poll finds similar results to several other polls that also show that the public option is very popular, a fact that some members of Congress consider to be a detriment.
Yes, I’m a 77%er…
Jane adds:
The House Dems have 77% of the country behind them. Conrad and Bayh have WellPoint and Blue Cross behind them, and messy financial ties to boot. Will they join with the Republicans to filibuster a Democratic health care bill? Because as Kagro X says, that is very much what they are saying they will do.
I guess we will see.
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