I absolutely agree that "more access to affordable healthcare" is lame,  I want a clear plan for universal coverage.

Glenn, it's good to see you at MYDD :)

Great post.  I was just wishing that I could forward this easily to my aunt in Ashland, OR.  She reads almost everything by e-mail,but I think that she's gotten wary of getting on  too many e-mail lists.  I know that she appreciates the stuff I send her.

Here's what I posted to Matt's thread askign for money for Rodriguez:

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It would be great if you guys could add an "e-mail this post/diary feature."  I know that I'm being lazy by not cutting and pasting the link or the full text, but here's why I'd like the feature.  Sometimes, I am lazy, and if I'm in a public place like a library, it's a lot easier to click on a link than it is to open my web-based e-mail.

Ideally there would be two options.  One would say send this link.  The other would provide the article nicely formatted with a chance to provide a note or some subject heading.  I have an aunt who is on moveon's list but doesn't know about DFA.  (I told her a bit about it; I'm trying to get her to get involved to get rid of her Republican Congressman.  She lives in a very liberal town in Oregon, but it's in a Republican district.)  Anyway she reads most of her e-mail  offline, and I'd love to be able to send her thos or Glenn's articles."

I don't see an e-mail address for either Matt or Chris Bowers or a contact us page, so it would be great if you could pass this info along.

It would be great if you guys could add an "e-mail this post/diary feature."  I know that I'm being lazy by not cutting and pasting the link or the full text, but here's why I'd like the feature.  Sometimes, I am lazy, and if I'm in a public place like a library, it's a lot easier to click on a link than it is to open my web-based e-mail.

Ideally there would be two options.  One would say send this link.  The other would provide the article nicely formatted with a chance to provide a note or some subject heading.  I have an aunt who is on moveon's list but doesn't know about DFA.  (I told her a bit about it; I'm trying to get her to get involved to get rid of her Republican Congressman.  She lives in a very liberal town in Oregon, but it's in a Republican district.)  Anyway she reads most of her e-mail  offline, and I'd love to be able to send her thos or Glenn's articles.

The one bright spot I saw was on ABC.  Their new anchorwoman is inane, and George Stephanopolos has lost his brain.  George Will gave the only really coherent commentary  EXCEPT

There was a medical consultant Dr. Tim Johnson who totally attacked Bush for failing to address the health care crisis of our terrible system, "a  non-system" he called it.  He mentioned that we spend more, have worse life expectancies,higher infant mortality rates and 45 million uninsured.  It was amazing!

Diane Sawyer brought up the fact that Bush talked about a commision to study medicaid, medicare and SS.  And Dr. JOhnson said, "Oh,sure, that's a way to punt responsibility for a year or two.  It's not the bold response we need.  All the president proposed amounted to tinkering."

I read those threads,  but I didn't comment.  I try not to comment when I don't think that I have anything useful to add.  For judicial analysis I'm much more likely to go to a site like Lawyers, Guns and Money.

I also didn't have a sense of a coordinating strategy.  Where were the people who had stopped Bork?  What did they know how to do that we didn't?  Of course,Bork was very open about his views, and nobody is going to make that mistake again.

I also found it really hard o get straight information out of anyone.  Kerry and Kenndy are my Senators, so I called them both.  Kerry wouldn't say how he was planning to vote before the Judiciary committee held their vote; he wanted to be polite.  I left messages urging them to oppose.  I don't have any sense of what a coordinated and effective attack would look like.

I am also, with a few exceptions, trying to cut down on my blog reading.  I still skim them, but I only give a lot of attention to a few posts.  I don't want to know too much about things that I have no power to change.  If I have a sense that there's a useful action that I can take, then I'll do it, but loading up on information is just too depressing if I don't fee that I can do anything.

Also, there's a governor's race where I think that I can be effective, and I've been busy with that.

I'm assuming that you mean pro-choice.  I'm not sure that this is true.  Mitt's been saying a lot of stuff to South Carolina types, hinting that he's not.  And he refused to sign a bill allowing OTC morning after pill, because he said that it would be a change in the state's abortion law, and that that would constitute a breach of his campaign promise not to change the state's abortion laws.  Sure most people took that to mean that he wasn't anti-choice, but he sort of switched things around.

Second, he published an op-ed in the Globe saying that he thought Roe v. Wade ought to be overturned and that the issue should be returned to the States.

Now, it is true that the Lt. Governor Kerry Healey is pro choice, and she has distanced herself from these comments.  Healey was going to sign the OTC Plan B bill, but Mitt decided that he had to come back from his vacation in NH to veto it.

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