In 2008 I supported John Edwards....And then Obama. ...What was I thinking?

[ProSense]

21. Hey,

"I still think he screwed the pooch with healthcare for example, by initiating mandates without even a public option. "

...I think you're absolutely wrong.

Howard Dean on the health care law
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022560359

Alan Grayson in January 2011:

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We still have over 30 million Americans who cannot see a doctor when they are sick. According to this Harvard study, adjusting for gender, race, smoking, weight, and just about everything else that you can think of, in any given year, the uninsured are 40% more likely to die than the insured are. That results in 44,789 additional deaths in America each year. All of which are avoidable.

This is more than twice the number of homicides in America.

It is more than ten times the number of deaths on 9/11. And it happens every year.

Do you think that we should solve this problem? I do.

And the Democratic Party does. Which is why we passed health care reform. And why we brought the wrath of lobbyists and their sewer money down on our heads in the last election – over $65 million by the Chamber of Commerce and Karl Rove’s “American Crossroads” alone.

I see one party taking on the special interests and enacting laws to keep Americans alive, and assure that you can see a doctor when you are sick. Like in every other industrialized country in the world.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1/20/937697/-What-I-Didnt-Hear

In 2012, despite the RW efforts to attack Grayson on his support for health care reform, he won.

U.S. Chamber Hits Alan Grayson, Bill Nelson With Anti-‘Obamacare’ Ads

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is airing ads in Florida, attacking incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson and congressional candidate Alan Grayson over their support for health care reform. Grayson, who lost his seat in 2010, voted for the law in 2009.

The ads claim that reform could cost 20 million Americans their health care coverage and, in the ad against Grayson, recalls that a Florida judge “ruled parts of Obamacare unconstitutional.”

The ads ask Floridians to call Grayson and Nelson and ask them to support the repeal of “Obamacare.” Of course, as a private citizen, Grayson cannot do anything to repeal health care reform even if he did change his mind.

Watch the ads at FactCheck.org.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/us-chamber-hits-alan-grayson-bill-nelson-with