Other Dems need to follow suit; I'll be letting Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee's office and my neighbors know know that I want her to speak up on this.

"Part of the problem with the Finance Committee bill is that it's being done to appease people instead of being done to put something together," Grijalva said, calling the process "tainted" and "discredited" and noting that "the people putting it together are ex-lobbyists."

This Grijalva fellow should be on Obama's cabinet somewhere.

Well done Sir! I'm glad that the liberals and Progressives are being made aware that this bill was written by Liz Fowler who's an aide to Baucus who worked for Wellpoint before rejoining Baucus. Wellpoint is the parent company of Blue Cross and Blue Shield. This piece of garbage Baucus is pushing should be trown in the trash when he presents it and Senator Kennedy's bill should be passed! I've been asking everyone who contacts their senator or congressmen to tell them that you're joining groups on the blogs who are not going to donate anymore money to the Dems until after the bill is passed with a strong public option with no triggers and remind them of the great fundraising that's taking place right now for Rob Miller by us! This could be our leverage!

The issue is much more than just healthcare (as important as that is). You can not claim you are going to call out those who lie and misrepresent your position (as the President did in his speech before congress) and then have your boys not only not call out the lie but write legislation that plays to the hand of the playground bully yelling and telling lies!

How do you donate to Grijalva?

Grijalva hit it on the nail. But i wouldn't be surprised if the White House green lighted the move.

The same thing happened with "death panels." Palin initially got mocked for claiming there were provisions for "death panels" in the bill. The Democratic response? "There are no death panels, but we'll take the death panels (end of life counseling provisions) out of the bill if it makes you feel better." Did that appease the crazies on the right? Of course not, it only lent legitimacy to their claim that there were "death panels" in the first place. And never mind the fact that end of life counseling is good policy that Republicans used to support.

Now they're doing the same thing with the "illegal immigrant" claim. "Toughening up" the anti-undocumented worker provisions won't make Republicans happy. All it does is legitimize their claim that there was a "secret plan" to cover "illegals" in the first place.

Good to see at least one Democrat gets it.

What's wrong with this picture: Max Baucus and Kent Conrad writing a health care reform bill for 300 million Americans. Let's leave out the fact that they are both up to their eyeballs in bribes from the health care industry. My little county in California (orange) has twice the population of their two states combined. They don't represent my interests. They represent the interests of the insurance industry along with a few dozen gun-toting, backcountry hicks.

Where's VP Biden in all this? I'd like to know what influence or lack of influence he still has in the senate and what he is being asked to do by the WH to get this legislation passed.

Those two creeps, Raucus and Gonad, represent about three percent of the population of the USA and one hundred percent of the health insurance companies. Why is the party caving in to their likes? We need a new Senate leader for one thing. Meanwhile, in the House, men like Grijalva are setting the pace for what the nation ought to be when this nonsense is over.