5 posts tagged “politics”
My member of the U.S. House of Representatives is Jackie Speier (D-San Mateo). I have just returned from her Families and Health Care Forum Event at Burton Park in San Carlos, which was attended by a few hundred constituents of which only a handful were unruly and disorderly protestors. I have some news to report about what her press director told me personally at the meeting when I could not address my question directly to the congresswoman.
- She supports HR. 3200, the compromised but still acceptable House reform package with the gutless public option and the slow phase-in.
- She also supports HR. 676, the Kucinich amendment that would allow California and other states a way to implement single-payer systems.
- She is one of 60 members who signed the Pelosi Letter, which declares that the Waxman deal with the Blue Dog Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee that would gut the House bill of the public option and many of the other important provisions to control health care administrative costs.
- She absolutely will not take the Firedoglake pledge to vote NO if the final bill does not contain a real public option.
- If the final bill fails to comprise a public option or any of the other improvements that her public statements say she supports, but President Obama promises to sign it, then she will vote YES on the final bill.
Glennzilla explains in his trademarked, exhaustively linked way what happened.
I'm vastly amused by this.
When businesses want to communicate with their customers via e-mail, many send messages with a bogus return address, e.g. "somethinghere@donotreply.com." The practice is meant to communicate to recipients that any replies will go unread.
But when those messages are sent to an inactive e-mail address or the recipient ignores the instruction and replies anyway, the missives don't just disappear into the digital ether.
Instead, they land in Chet Faliszek's e-mail box.
Apparently, Ralph Nader won the California primary race for the top of the Green ticket this year, for the nomination as the party's candidate for President in the 2008 general election. This saddens me deeply. A more stupid choice I cannot imagine. I'm ready to give up on the Green Party now.
Remember in the recent GOP presidential debate when the candidates were asked to raise their hands if they didn't believe in evolution, and all but three of the candidates kept their hands down?
