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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-23-09 11:08 AM
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HAPPENING NOW -- Pelosi publicly whipping on robust public option
Source: Politico

October 23, 2009
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* Public Option

HAPPENING NOW -- Pelosi publicly whipping on robust public option

After Democratic sources told POLITICO that there are not the votes for a robust public option, party leaders have their rank-and-file behind closed doors in the Capitol basement and are going through every name to see where they stand on a Medicare plus-five public option, the so-called robust plan. It's a public whip, often used to shame the outliers into backing their preferred plan.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/livepulse/1009/HAPPENING_NOW__Pelosi_publicly_whipping_on_robust_public_option.html?showall
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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-23-09 11:09 AM
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1. disclaimer
sorry for posting another politico headline...kpete
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shraby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-23-09 11:11 AM
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4. Guess Politico got spanked hard enough this morning
to cover their ass on the earlier bad story.
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-23-09 11:10 AM
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2. Name names to us, Speaker. Who are they? We WILL pounce! nt
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-23-09 11:10 AM
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3. These anonymous "sources" are usually 28 year old pissant staffers
People who don't know shit from there ass and are trying to get in good with the Cocktail Party Crowd.
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question everything Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-23-09 04:58 PM
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5. What is going on? Why are so many of your posts
get banished to different forums?

Got a moderator who woke up the wrong side of the bed?
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