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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-21
Dr. Angeles Gonzalez is marching with us today #melaniesmarch http://ping.fm/4sBk3 # Georgeanne Koehler’s story about her brother Billy #melaniesmarch http://ping.fm/8nxfR # Continue reading
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-14
@fabriciorodrix There are tens of thousands of similar stories. A woman with almost the exact same story is speaking at the rally on Wed. in reply to fabriciorodrix # Website for our March to the Finish Line just went live. Check it for our route, events, and updates. #melaniesmarch http://ping.fm/kAfvF # 250 people have joined the March to the Finish Line for Melanie. How about you? #melaniesmarch http://ping.fm/O8eht # Tell DC to finish health care now. March to the Finish Line for Melanie–February 24, 12:30pm, Washington DC #melaniesmarch # Powered by Twitter Tools Continue reading
Why we are marching to the finish line for Melanie
A group of Pennsylvanians are Marching from Philadelphia to Washington, DC between February 17 and 24 in honor of Melanie Shouse. This is why. Recently, our friend, Melanie Shouse lost a long battle with breast cancer after missing out on critical treatment because she, like thousands of others, could not find affordable health insurance. Melanie did everything she could to fight for health care, not just for herself, but for all of us. President Obama, who knew Melanie as a volunteer on his campaign, said: “She was fighting that whole time not just to get me elected, not even to get herself health insurance, but because she understood that there were others coming behind her who were going to find themselves in the same situation and she didn’t want somebody else going through that same thing.” It was a long road for Melanie, but she never gave up. A lot… Continue reading
March (and rally) to the Finish Line!
The fight for health care reform is continuing. Join us at two events as we ratchet up our campaign to enact health care reform in the next two months. A major rally in Philadelphia at a place still to be determined in Center City on Wednesday, February 17 at 12:00 noon. Click here to RSVP. March to the Finish Line, a march of health care activists from Philadelphia to Washington beginning at the rally and ending up in at the Capitol on Wednesday, February 24th right before President Obama’s health care summit. Click here to sign up for any part of the march. Why are we marching to Washington? To show our leaders that they have lost touch with us. Continue reading
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-07
Back in the high life. # Seem to be having my semi-annual day of depression tonight # Sign up for a conference call on HCR w/ Sen Franken & HCAN's Richard Krirsch, Fri at 3 http://ping.fm/S5TrN # So, who's ready to walk to Washington for health care reform? # Powered by Twitter Tools Continue reading
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-31
Yes, let's get health care reform done. And soon. # Bipartisanship: D and Rs always disagree about means. But the GOP sits on its hands when O articulates goals like creating jobs. # Go Jets! # Powered by Twitter Tools Continue reading
To the top of the greasy pole: Why health care reform is so hard and what we should do about it now
Last night you heard President Obama say that we have to pass health care reform this year. Reports today that Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid are working on a plan to move the reform legislation through Congress. I know that many of you are disappointed and angry that we have not yet succeeded. I am, too. But I taught and studied American politics for many years before I became an activist, and I know that what we have seen in the 19 month long fight for health care reform is the usual course our politics takes on the most important questions. Continue reading
The Crooked Thing
To the woman who has me looped. Brown Penny I whispered, ‘I am too young,’ And then, ‘I am old enough’; Wherefore I threw a penny To find out if I might love. ‘Go and love, go and love, young man, If the lady be young and fair.’ Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, I am looped in the loops of her hair. O love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enough To find out all that is in it, For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon. Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, One cannot begin it too soon. W. B. Yeats “Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be made.” Immanuel Kant I’ve loved this poem for a long time. But it was only a few years ago that I think… Continue reading
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-24
Rally and march for Health Care Reform at 11:00 am, Love Park, Art museums steps at 11;45 RSVP http://bit.ly/8MKAOz # Rally and march for health care reform Saturday 11:00 am, Love Park and then run up the steps of the the Museum with your poster at 11:45. # @BradyDale Sapir-Whorf bogus: If we can't talk about all the kinds of snow for which Eskimos have words, we can't make the hypothesis. in reply to BradyDale # Health care reform in critical condition. Phone bank today 1-8 and tmw 10 to 7:30 for Martha Coakley at UFCW Local 1776, 3300 Walton Road. # Powered by Twitter Tools Continue reading
Think: On the aftermath of Massachusetts II
The National Moment In my previous post, I said that there is still a way forward to health care reform that is good if not great. Having said all that, there is no question that after Massachusetts, Virginia and New Jersey statewide elections, after a decline in Obama’s popular support and in the Congressional poll numbers (where the Democrats are in a dead heat with Republicans, ten points below where they were a year ago), we Democrats are not doing as well right now as we were a year ago. Why not? There are two leading theories, which lead to two radically different conclusions about what Obama should do now. The right is saying that Obama overreached and is trying to force major changes, and especially health care reform, on a country that did not elect him for that purpose. The left is saying that Obama has compromise too much… Continue reading