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Zalatix

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12. Why didn't we rally for the Public option or Medicare-for-All?

Reply to Martin Eden (Reply #7)

Thu Jan 26, 2012, 09:41 PM

Jan 2012

Medicare for All was a bill at the time (at the tail end, at least). The Public Option was fighting for its life all along.

Where were the protests in favor of that?

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I know this is an old subject but I just want to ask [View all] Zalatix Jan 2012 OP

Becuase the Koch Brothers never sent us a check? Cooley Hurd Jan 2012 #1

+1, n/t RKP5637 Jan 2012 #2

+1 Quantess Jan 2012 #8

Those big rallies were bought and paid for by the Koch Brothers emulatorloo Jan 2012 #3

Honestly? Because we're bad strategists. TheWraith Jan 2012 #4

So you support the Wisconsin protest even tho you think Occupy is a joke? rhett o rick Jan 2012 #6

Yet the people in Europe will riot to the blast of a dog whistle. Zalatix Jan 2012 #13

When people showed up they were out number and some of the nuts were carrying guns. southernyankeebelle Jan 2012 #5

Protest against the Teapartiers, or FOR the health care plan? Martin Eden Jan 2012 #7

Why didn't we rally for the Public option or Medicare-for-All? Zalatix Jan 2012 #12

Progressives didn't show up to counter the anti-Obama health care 'bag rallies because ... T S Justly Jan 2012 #9

Why do you think that's so? REP Jan 2012 #10

I wish I did. We should have been out there Zalatix Jan 2012 #11