DUSTIN GAWRYLOW: POMEROY - UNDECIDED ON GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTHCARE?
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Late yesterday, the Grand Forks Herald posted a story entitled "Pomeroy: Waiting to decide on health care reform support."
You might ask yourself - what is he waiting for?
He has already been reported as saying he would not vote for the Senate bill. (Source: The Associated Press via the Bismarck Tribune, January 29th, 2010)
Yesterday, over 100 North Dakotans emailed Congressman Pomeroy to tell him to oppose the Senate Bill. (If you have not already done so click here.)
According to the Herald:
"I have favored at this point in time a smaller package more capable of getting bipartisan support," he said. "It looks like they're making an effort to put in Republican ideas, but I'm not sure that the package is smaller or will be any more capable of getting bipartisan support."
This statement is a complete diversion.
Achieving a "smaller bill" would require that Congress START OVER --- just as NDTA and the Campaign For Responsible Healthcare Reform has said for over 6-months now.
A smaller bill will not happen unless the Majority Party allows it.
If Congressman Pomeroy is willing to push his party to START OVER ON HEALTHCARE the people of North Dakota would back him up.
The ball is in his court - he can use his seniority to set his party straight - or he can sitback and not take a position until it is clear what will happen.
Click here to email your elected representatives.
Comments
The only word that keeps banging around in my brain is “HYPOCRISY”. But it would seem that there is no lack of hypocrisy any where in Washington, DC. It is time to throw them ALL out and start over. And don’t give me any of that male bovine excretion about experience or seniority, that just makes things generally worse. You know, “Well that’s how we’ve always done it”.
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