{"id":3443,"date":"2010-11-23T01:11:58","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T09:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3443"},"modified":"2010-11-23T01:11:58","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T09:11:58","slug":"michael-moores-wet-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/23\/michael-moores-wet-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Moore’s Wet Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have long supported Michael Moore in his ongoing campaign against corporate and political corruption.  Sicko<\/u> helped make health care reform a reality, and contrary to Republican lies, polls indicate that Americans do not want it repealed.  Like me, Michael Moore supports it as a first step, but believes that the job will not be done until we have a universal system, such as Medicare for all, free from control by greedy insurance companies, for whom profit trumps health.  Part of almost every Michael Moore film I have seen, part of the film focused on Moore\u2019s attempt to get someone responsible just to talk to him.  Last night he got his wish.<\/font><\/p>\n

First the latest poll:<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"23OPINION_POLL\"A majority of Americans want the Congress to keep the new health care law or actually expand it<\/strong>, despite Republican claims that they have a mandate from the people to kill it, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll. <\/p>\n

The post-election survey showed that 51 percent of registered voters want to keep the law or change it to do more, while 44 percent want to change it to do less or repeal it altogether.<\/p>\n

Driving support for the law: Voters by margins of 2-1 or greater want to keep some of its best-known benefits, such as barring insurers from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions<\/strong>. One thing they don’t like: the mandate that everyone must buy insurance. <\/p>\n

At the same time, the survey showed that a majority of voters side with the Democrats on another hot-button issue, extending the Bush era tax cuts that are set to expire Dec. 31 only for those making less than $250,000\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <McClatchy DC<\/a>><\/p>\n

I found the methodology skewed-right, but only slightly.<\/font><\/p>\n

Keith Olbermann hosted a conversation between Michael Moore and Wendell Potter, a former Cigna exexutibe who helped craft the smear campaign against Moore, in two parts.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s part 2.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

It did my heart good to see Moore finally get his wish.  He deserves all our thanks for his work.<\/font><\/p>\n

Now is not the time for progressives to play defense.  Instead of whining about what Obamacare<\/em> doesn\u2019t do, lets renew the campaign for Medicare for all!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have long supported Michael Moore in his ongoing campaign against corporate and political corruption.  Sicko helped make health care reform a reality, and contrary to Republican lies, polls indicate that Americans do not want it repealed.  Like me, Michael Moore supports it as a first step, but believes that the job will not be […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}