For Your Consideration: Attacking Back

(Dennis Kucinich is demonstrating his leadership again by calling for “The Medicare Public Option”, the proposal to allow people under 65 to buy into Medicare, to be passed in reconciliation of the current health care bill.

“Hi, this is Dennis Kucinich, on REAL health reform. We all know what really needs to be done, to expand what’s REALLY working, which is Medicare, in a way that makes common sense, and is fiscally sound. That’s why I’M pushing for an up or down vote on The Medicare Public Option, to give people younger than age 65 the OPTION to buy into Medicare, at a fair price, if they WANT to. I don’t KNOW what the rest of Congress is going to do, I just want you to know, that as YOUR representative I’m fighting so that you can have a REAL DEAL. I’m Dennis Kucinich, and I approved this message.” – promoted by ek hornbeck)

Jane Hamsher, again, says it quite eloquently when she calls out MoveOn.org for attacking Dennis Kucinich for sticking with his promise to not vote for a HCR bill that did not have a Public Option. Rep. Kucinich is being attack by the so-called “liberal” blogosphere that has now veered fo far right that it is unrecognizable to true progressives like Ms. Hamsher.

Last August, progressive groups including MoveOn, DFA and blogs across the country came together to raise over $430,000 for 65 members of Congress who pledged to vote against any health care bill that doesn’t have a public option.

Now every excuse made by the President and Congress for not including a public option has crumbled. MoveOn is against Kucinich for keeping that promise, and far from supporting members of Congress who keep that pledge, the unions are them with primaries.

If George Bush had tried to pass a health care bill that was the worst blow to the right to choose since the passage of the Hyde Amendment 35 years ago, liberal groups would be screaming bloody murder.

I think this says quite a bit about the hypocrisy of the “Left”

I said “I find it odd that when it’s down to Joe Lieberman’s one vote, everybody shrugs their shoulders and says ‘oh well, we just have to write the bill Joe wants, because what can you do, one vote.’  And when it’s Dennis Kucinich’s one vote, which  represents what 80% of the American people want, it’s “lets crush Dennis Kucinich so we can give Joe Lieberman everything he wants.” Somehow the argument keeps switching so that the corrupt deal that the White House negotiated with the pharmaceutical companies gets passed no matter what.“

MoveOn, DFA and the “left” blogosphere are the new right.

Join Jane Hamsher’s call to those members of congress who said they would not vote for this bill unless there was a public option, protects a womans’ reproductive rights and show support for Dennis Kucinich, a true liberal with the guts to protect us from corporatists, the health care insurance and pharmaceutical companies companies.