Attention Blue Dogs

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by David Safier
This says it well.

If President Barack Obama succeeds in signing a major health care reform bill into law – one that provides a public plan for people currently priced out of the system – he will achieve what at least three presidents before him had hoped for, and failed to do. And he will likely deprive the Republican minority in Congress from anything approaching a comeback in the 2010 midterm elections.

However, if health care reform does not pass early in Obama's term, the Democrats will likely face midterm elections amid rising unemployment figures with a record of having passed legislation characterized as "bailouts" for megabanks and large corporations – bills whose benefits to the economy have little impact on the person who has already lost a job. So GOP leaders are focused like a laser beam on stopping health-care reform in its tracks.

The Republicans are pretending to be populists, fighting against giving away our money to bail out big business and driving the country further into debt. Universal health care is a truly populist cause. If we get good legislation, Obama and the Dems have made the U.S. a better place for people. If we don't, they can say all the Dems have done is spend, spend, spend.

Chuck Schumer and Barney Frank are safe, no matter what happens. But the Dems in swing districts? Not so much.

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