Intolerable

Mary Landrieu says she's against a public health insurance option.

This makes me FURIOUS. I am calling her now.

I am calling her in D.C. at (202)224-5824.

I am calling her in New Orleans at (504) 589-2427.

Look, I have come to accept that Mary Landrieu is always going to vote more conservative than I'd like. The reason I supported her was that I thought that at the very least, when there were really important lines in the sand to be drawn, she would vote for the interests of working people. I have not appreciated many of her votes so far since reelection but I still held out hope that on the big issues she'd be there.

I have voted for her and volunteered for her based on that. If she is anything other than an enthusiastic champion of lowered health insurance costs, she'll never have me as a phone banker again!

To play cowardly politics with healthcare is intolerable. It is a tipping point issue for me and I find any waffling on it to be unacceptable.

If we make it known how important this is to us, she may change her mind. She needs to hear from us before she takes an unequivocal position.

Her staffers are totally nice though so don't be too angry with them.