Mark Udall: "I support the public option"

Good! (0.00 / 0)

Better late than never, but the second block quote is pretty damned lukewarm--

"one tool"
"that could provide competition"

Still, for Udall, that's quite a commitment.

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by: dfh @ Thu Sep 10, 2009 at 20:48:39 PM CDT

Interesting how many other programs... (4.00 / 2)

...are passed, year after year, without too much sturm & drang over their impact on the deficit. The military is the big one, of course, but there are many others--federal subsidies for "interstate" highways serving  metro areas, to cite another case, to say nothing of refusing to increase taxes on the upper 0.1, or 1, or 10 percent income brackets. We can afford what we choose to.

But, we'll take Udall's vote if offered, naturally.

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by: JO @ Thu Sep 10, 2009 at 22:53:12 PM CDT

Progress (0.00 / 0)

I'm glad.

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by: ray springfield @ Thu Sep 10, 2009 at 23:40:20 PM CDT

Don't see much big news here (4.00 / 1)

But above all, reform must be done in a deficit-neutral way

Nice time to get worried about the deficit, Sen. Udall.  He didn't much care about the "emergency" supplementals for years when it came to occupying foreign nations.  Despite how his district's constituents felt about it, he became too happy to use wishy-washy talking points about supporting the troops.  Nary a word about the money being funneled to mercenaries who were outside of legal oversight.  And on and on.

The "centrist" position is implementation of a robust public-option.  If Sen. Udall wants to tack to the right of that, he's free to do so.

He can also issue all the fuzzy-sounding press releases he wants - it really doesn't mean much.  The only things that count is how hard he works to pass what Coloradans want and how he votes on the Senate and final bills.

A Responsible Plan for Iraq: endorsed by Jared Polis

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by: WeatherDem @ Fri Sep 11, 2009 at 12:00:28 PM CDT

But what he didn't say was............. (0.00 / 0)

But what he didn't say was that he would vote against any bill that did not contain the public option.  That's where the rubber is really going to meet the road and that is where we are going to finally see whose side our members of Congress are really on.  Will they come down on the side of working people and the middle class or will they come down on the side of big insurance companies?  And I'm not just talking about Mark Udall here, but all of our congressional delegation.  Because a bill without a strong public option is nothing more than a multibillion dollar giveaway to the health insurance industry.  And that would be worse than no bill at all.

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by: madmike @ Fri Sep 11, 2009 at 16:03:53 PM CDT

Deficit Nuetral? (0.00 / 0)

I thought the health care bill suggested was deficit nuetral, and Obama insists on it? Do I have it right?

So why do he and Bennet still say this garbage about not increasing the deficit if everyone is in agreement that it won't anyway?

Inquiring minds wish to know. Perhaps to brush up on his centrist cred?

If Udal/Bennet want to be part of the team why not push hard for health care? They don't even have to yack about PO, just get out and push a little. Hellow Mark, where are ya? Remember what we say down in Eldo, when in doubt run it out.

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by: somsai @ Fri Sep 11, 2009 at 21:14:25 PM CDT