More impotent health care rage

[tuolumnejim]

And then the DUmpmonkey kicks his own thread just one minute later with another link and then another one five minutes later. I guess he didn't like to see it drop like a stone. 

flyarm  (1000+ posts)        Sun Sep-27-09 01:04 PM
Original message
Pelosi Says “F*&k You” to Trumka and the AFL-CIO 
 Edited on Sun Sep-27-09 01:15 PM by flyarm
Pelosi Says “F*&k You” to Trumka and the AFL-CIO
By: Jane Hamsher Saturday September 26, 2009 11:17 am
please read this in it's entirety............
http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/09/26/pelosi-s... /
snip;

It's notable that among the Change to Win unions, only the Teamsters came out against the Baucus bill. (Whoever sold Hoffa on ditching the public plan is no doubt talking fast and trying to explain why he is now being kicked in the face.)

Incoming AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has been outspoken in his insistence on the inclusion of a public option in any health reform bill, and has threatened to withhold support from Democrats who won't vote for it. Over the past week there was a lot of winking in reports that the White House was leaning on progressive groups to drop their support for the public option. It absolutely did happen, but the use of the word "groups" is probably misleading -- the organization they are talking about, the only one that matters, is the AFL-CIO.

Since other unions outside the AFL-CIO are working the yo-yo on the trigger, Trumka is the lone holdout. He's the mainstay, and there is tremendous pressure building within the AFL in response to arm twisting from the White House for him to cave. And if he falls, it's going to be difficult for the rest of the veal pen not to follow suit. So, he's being directly threatened.

The message is clear: "Get in line or we pay for your precious 'public option' by ****ing you on health care benefits."

If Trumka suddenly starts singing the praises of triggers (even if they instantly "yo-yo" it back and insist he was misquoted), you'll know it worked.

 

I sure hope the hooting dipshit goes and brings the economy down with that awesome idea. 

hootinholler  (1000+ posts)        Sun Sep-27-09 04:17 PM
Response to Reply #7
11. It should be **** us on healthcare and we stay home...
 From work. Nothing moves, gets made, gets unloaded from ships or loaded on trucks. Nation-wide.

The hell with staying home from the elections. **** us on health care and we stay home altogether.

-Hoot
 

[Splashdown]

NOT ONE DAMN DIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
oh. wait. tried that already. 

[Texacon]

A DUmmie staying home from work?!  You mean mom isn't going to have to wake them up so they can walk down to the basement to get on DU and start their day?  What a damn shame.

KC

[BlueStateSaint]

What the ranting and raving DUmb**** doesn't understand is that 89% of America likes their health coverage just the way it is, and would keep right on working . . .

[franksolich]

Oh my.

It's rather curious that Leona Helmsley of DUmmieland, the "flyarm" primitive, is concerned about labor union issues.

In case anyone's forgotten, Leona lives in Streisandian opulence and luxury in New Jersey, but claims Florida as her state of residence for, one supposes, tax advantages.

Leona was a FOA, who unashamedly embarked upon a shopping spree to Paris when her "good friend" was afflicted with cancer, leaving him to die alone.

But to her credit, one must remember that Leona was once a working girl, an airline stewardess, back when airplanes had propellers.

It just seems very odd that labor union issues interest her.