Personally, as a Democratic voter, I want concrete plans for what Dems will do

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if they retain their majorities. And I don't want built in excuses about 60-vote supermajorities and corporate media corruption.

To begin with, I want a cut-and-dried, no wiggling-out-of-it pledge that we're going to get a public option. And a REAL one, too- one that ANYONE can choose to pay into and receive good coverage from.

Oh, and let's not forget this "Fiscal Responsibility" commission. I want an ironclad understanding that Social Security is not to be cut and the retirement age is not to be raised, or any other such legislative games that would reduce benefits for those who have paid into the system and need them.

Because, if our Dem leaders are now starting to regret that they didn't believe us about the importance of REAL healthcare reform and the public option, they're going to be shocked in 2012 when they see the electoral consequences of cutting the incomes of the least of us in this kind of economy, while the income gap only widens.