Lynch Still 'Firmly A No' After Meeting With Obama

Haven't voted yet. Look at Kucinich. Lynch is still fighting the good fight... and I'll bet if he votes "no", his won't be the deciding vote.

We will see. We have 48h to work on him.

If it is good enough for Kucinich it should be good enough for this shmuck, what's going on up in Mass.

Scott Brown won his district... His "excuses" are BS, since his original complaints were that the bill was too "liberal" before. That and his timing shows that he's simply a coward. Hopefully, someone will primary him, and we'll have to find another vote to replace this lying bastards.

No matter how nice it may sound on surface, his stated reason is horseshit -- he doesn't mean "it". Primary this asscrown.

What kind of "reform back in the bill" is he talking about....this guy who has taken almost $200K from insurance companies. What a pile of crap.

The DCCC and DNC must withhold campaign dollars from Democrats who oppose health care reform--period.

No one primarying him yet - there's got to be a good dem out there somewhere and that person needs to come forward to collect what I imagine will be a very large amount of donations. I don't have much but I'm sure going to contribute.

I'm in Lynch's district. I callled and gave his Washington office an earful this morning because I think his stance on this is completely disingenuous (Kucinich is voting for it for heaven's sake) and because it's completely inconsistent - I've called before about just about every issue (bailouts, financial regulation, cap and trade, the first house vote on health care) and his office has never taken a public stance on any of those issues before a vote. And yet this one they come out as a strong NO on?

I've already emailed my Town Democratic committee trying to find out if there's a primary challenger if he votes no on this thing and volunteering to help on whatever campaign will unseat him in the event he votes no.

40 minutes with the President an he disses him. Is this an example of the old racism from South Boston?

Good for Walsh! Now we get to see how the herd of go along/get along Democrats villify this man for telling the truth and standing up for the people's interests. I've never seen Democrats behave in such a pathetic, blind, and shortsighted manner about anything. What a bunch of sheep! The one Democratic Congressman who apparently has the balls to do what he said he would do is portrayed as some sort of traitor. Pathetic, embarassing behavior from a party so used to defeat that it now insists on creating it for itself because it refuses to use the power it has to do what is right and within their grasp.

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Here is a (presumably) partial list of folks who apparently work at Arcuri's office:

Sam Marchio, Chief of Staff
Chris Wilcox, Legislative Director/Counsel
Melinda Becker, Legislative and Press Aide
Roxanne Yaghoubi, Legislative Correspondent
Jay Biba, Press Secretary/Dir. of Special Projects
Mark Cornell, Scheduler/Press Assistant
Charles Greco, Staff Assistant
Joe Johnson, District Director
Pete Scalise, Deputy District Director
Connie Wood, District Scheduler
Pat Smith, Caseworker/Field Representative
Jason Phelps, Caseworker/Field Representative
Sarah Bormann, Caseworker/Field Representative
Liz Gustafson, Staff Assistant

I think folks should post a similar list of folks who work in Representative Lynch's office.

And I think folks who know these people or have access to them should send them the following message: if Arcuri and Lynch help take down HCR and they don't immediately resign, they will never work again in the Democratic Party.

This issue is that important. If you don't support HCR on this vote, and if you're not willing to resign over it, then you simply don't belong in the Democratic Party.

There are varying strains of blue collar conservatives/white collar progressives and anything in between depending on the issue in Lynch's district. Reagan Democrat Racism and Anti-Elite resentful crabbism is not always far from the surface in attitudes, values, and relations. That said, times are changing and I think Lynch is trying to move where he can conceptually while deeply and strongly anchored to the triple-decker milieu that brung'm to where he is now. He would be wise to pay attention to the large network of Nuns who have come out in support of this bill. [http://www.networklobby.org/issues/2009%20Issue%20Agenda/healthcare_page.htm]

He needs to stand with Sister Carol Keehan of the Catholic Health Association and kick Stupak and the bishops to the curb.

This would make him viable statewide if he is indeed interested in retiring Scott Brown.

Also, he should stop listening to these dirtbags and their ilk:
Dennis & Callahan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_and_Callahan

It is a very popular local radio sports show with a rightwing stink to it.