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Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean made an impassioned case for the public option in health care at an incident-free town hall meeting last night while holding the Democratic leadership accountable for not taking full advantage of its majority in both chambers of Congress. “If you have a majority and you don’t use it, you lose it,” he said. “If we can’t deliver health care, we deserve to lose our majority.” Dean emphasized that the public option was non-negotiable...
...know if I would call the month freaky," says Representative Zach Space, laughing. The Ohio Democrat has yet to decide how he'll vote on the legislation. "I love the fact that people are engaging and expressing themselves, but I had a guy sleeping on the sidewalk in front of my office for a week," he says. "It's important that the debate be healthy - one with structure, not destruction - where we debate issues, not urban myths." (See more about health care...
...attention being paid to the painstaking negotiating process that is under way in the Senate, the House now holds as much, if not more, risk for health-care reform. Already, 23 moderate Democrats have said they will not vote for any of the three bills on the table. Representative Mike Ross, an Arkansas Democrat and a leading member of the Blue Dogs, the fiscally conservative House Dems, said this week that he would not vote for any bill that includes a public plan. If there was one major casualty of the talk of death panels, Nazi comparisons and screaming matches...
Which is why what many Democrats are hoping to hear from Obama on Wednesday night is, first and foremost, political cover: some indication that he is staking his still formidable political capital on this process. "I'm leaning no, but I really want to get to yes," says Representative Tom Perriello, a Virginia Democrat and top Republican target. "What I think people are looking for and what I heard back home is, they understand that we're trying to do really important things. They want to understand how these things fit together, and I think the President...
...issue - an indication of how spooked the caucus is by the summer theatrics. "I'm willing to look at the public plan if it means getting [Maine Republican Senator] Olympia Snowe's support for it to pass the Senate," says Representative Bill Pascrel, a progressive New Jersey Democrat. "But I'm leery about it - there better not be 14 exit signs written into...