I've been known to decry Move On for engaging in counterproductive posturing whose sole effect is to enthuse their membership while annoying the people who they really need to be moving, but in this case, I'm going to have to give 'em a hearty "Hell yeah!" She's supposed to be a real Democrat, as opposed to a convert, but she's now to the right of Arlen frikkin Spector, for God's sake.

If it comes down to it, make every senator who opposes a public option filibuster for as long as they want so that the voters, who overwhelmingly support a public option, can see where their elected representatives stand on this critical issue.

She's probably getting lots of pressure from Blue Cross/Blue Shield which is based in that state. I think the most effective strategy would be to convince her that the nation as a whole is in support of the public option versus her constituents in North Carolina.

Hell yes..MoveOn and you will recieve my donation. Keep the heat of this JR.Senator from my state who is in the bag w/ PAC and lobbyist money.

Those ActBlue contributions are rather large. Obviously she got a hell of a lot of other money, since $1.6M doesn't alone fund a campaign. But her big money was Ideological/Single-Issue (which likely ties into Anti-GOP) and ActBlue.

If we can't keep people like Hagan that *we* elect inline with our goals, it's just a waste of time. I'm in SoCal and some of my campaign contributions in this last cycle went into Hagan's warchest to get rid of Dole and give us another Dem in the Senate.

John

Memo to American Public,The Corporations decide your legislation not you or your congress people.No major change will come unless we all start assembling in the streets.Just take a look @ the outsourcing of your jobs:there is no benefit to you.

How did this bitch - a first time U.S. Senator get appointed to the health care committee. Same goes for Baucus - what is a conservadem doing on the powerful Finance Committe.

Are these people nuts? Or better question is are we nuts??

I am whopping mad today as you can see.

Bitch Feinstein has her phone set to an automatic voice which lets you hold but disconnects you if you hold longer than two minutes.

In other words, she's not accepting calls. I suggest bombarding her San Francisco Office and other offices with calls

Plus, Kay Hagan being a freshman and presumably interested in a second term ought to give us leverage in a way that we don't seem to have with Feinstein.

Well, I hope, anyway.

She LITERALLY would not be a Senator if it wasn't for us. The message should be clear, you obstruct, you won't be a Senator after your next election.

NC is one of only 7 states that doesn't allow generics for Medicare. They say "we get a lot of money for Research Triangle Park from the drug companies and have to be nice to them."

Crystal clear why Hagan is being a turdblossom on this!

What leverage do progressives have here?

It seems to me garnering the ire of left-leaning activists and MoveOn.org will strengthen Hagan politically.

She'll be running for re-elect in 2014, the midterm of BHO's second term--likely to be tough for a democrats in general and southerners in particular. She'll use a feud with MoveOn in her own commercials!

I'm just saying, that as a Dem in NC, who will have plenty of opportunity to raise cash among established interests as an incumbent, political attacks from the left are a feature and not a bug for her career.

Not sayin' it's right; just sayin' that's the way it is.

Maybe if we inundated her office with copies of our insurance bills, medical bills, letters denying care, etc, she might realize that her "public option" health care is much different from ours. Ditto to the rest of the opposition.

Well, perhaps it is true that only 40% of the people North Carolina support single payer. But you can bet your bottom dollar that every one of those 40% voted for her. They will be pretty pissed if she doesn't support real heath care reform.

Health care has the potential to the Democrats what abortion is to the Republicans. Every election since Roe v. Wade, the Republicans have promised the radical right that they would end abortion. A generation later, no progress is made on abortion, but the rich are richer.

The Democrats have been promising real health care reform since Clinton was elected. In fact, that may have been the primary reason Clinton was able to defeat an incumbant president. There is no reason for the Democrats not to deliver on their promises.

If the Democrats pass real health reform, their political dominance will be guaranteed for the next generation. If they don't, while commanding 60 votes in the Senate, there is absolutely no reason to keep them in power.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina doesn't want a public plan. Therefore Hagan doesn't want a public plan. It's that simple. No deep philosophy or ideology is required.

We should be all over her with faxes, phone calls, emails and visits until she changes her mind.

http://hagan.senate.gov/?p=contact

I'm from NC. The selfless and honorable non-profit Blue Cross Blue Shield owns this state.

I too am from the Tar Heel state and I helped fund the re-election of Sen. Hagan in my own small way. It is reprehensible that she is behaving like the woman she replaced , Liddy Dole. The commenter above who pointed out all the Big Pharma and BCBS connections to central state politicans and universities is entirely correct. It looks like NC is going to have an unbroken string of hugely bad Senatorial choices--Helms to the present.

Hagan is laboring under the delusion that she won election. In fact, she ran a really crappy campaign and was elected because Liddy LOST!

Six years and out, Kay, so vote your conscience, not your moderate bona fides.