The Senate Finance Committee has pulled the plug on the public option. Five Democrats, including Committee Chairman Max Baucus, voted against a government-run insurance plan.
Filmmaker Michael Moore says it’s time to apply Moore’s Law: Congressional Democrats should get with the program or get to stepping.
During a rally at the headquarters of Public Citizen, Moore promised to rock the House -- and Senate. Moore threw down the gauntlet:
To the Democrats in Congress who don’t quite get it: I want to offer a personal pledge. I – and a lot of other people – have every intention of removing you from Congress in the next election if you stand in the way of health care legislation that the people want. That is not a hollow or idle threat. We will come to your district and we will work against you, first in the primary and, if we have to, in the general election.
