While most politicians are tyring to figure out how to pander to the HMOs and health insurers in the wake of the victory of a GOP ex porn star to Ted Kennedy's old Senate seat, Dennis Kucinich shows us what a Real Democrat is like.Text Version:Kucinich Continues To Fight For Single-Payer Dear Friends:Forty-seven million Americans are without health insurance. Why? Because they can't afford it.And what's Washington's solution? Require people to buy private insurance with the government providing a subsidy to the health insurance companies.What a pathetic state of affairs that our national government cannot respond to the ...

I really like this guy. He is a strong and thoughtful. Where has he been? From TP: Rep. Anthony Weiner’s (D-NY) office today released an internal study showing that 151 members of Congress “currently receive government-funded; government-administered single-payer health care — Medicare.” Of those 151 members, 55 are Republicans who also happen to be “steadfastly opposed [to] other Americans getting the public option, like the one they have chosen.” Included on Weiner’s list are anti-public option crusaders Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), Sen. John ...