Landrieu signed letter saying she supported public plan before she was against it

[DrToast]

I wonder who got to her.

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) pledged her support for a public health care option in April, two months before she announced opposition to such a plan, according to a signed letter she sent to a major reform coalition dated April 11.

Read the letter, obtained by the Huffington Post, here.

"I'm not open to it. I'm not open to a public option," Landrieu told the Huffington Post early Tuesday afternoon. "However, I will remain open to a compromise, a full compromise. Public option is not something that I support. I don't think it's the right way to go."

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Landrieu had told the coalition Health Care for America Now (HCAN) in April that she supported a public option, which would compete against private plans. She signed a pledge that she supported a "choice of a private insurance plan, including keeping the insurance you have if you like it, or a public insurance plan without a private insurer middleman that guarantees affordable coverage."

Landrieu went even further and drafted a letter to HCAN specifically spelling out her support for a public option.

"HCAN principles embody an approach that actually delivers a solution of guaranteed quality, affordable health care for all in America. Under this approach, everyone gets a choice of health insurance plans, including the right to keep your current insurance, choose another private plan or to join a public health insurance plan," she wrote in April.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/09/signed-letter-from-landri_n_213447.html

She needs to get the Ben Nelson treatment.

[babylonsister]

1. She flips often. I don't know anything about her except

I don't like her because she's so wishy-washy. Is there anything she'll stick to?

[Cleita]

2. Thom Hartmann said the same thing today, that both she and

Ben Nelson need to go. The Democrats need to run more progressive candidates in their place in the next primaries.

[SpartanDem]

5. What good would that do LA and NE

aren't particularly liberal states

[Cleita]

7. I dunno. Thom's more intelligent than me. He's more intelligent

than most people. I trust his judgement.

[WCGreen]

9. Well, he can't be all that smart if he thinks a progressive

democrat could win in either LA or NE...

All you have to do is look at the demographics and you will see two very conservative, transitional states.

The thing about blue dog democrats is that they allow the party to attain majority standing so that they can control how, what and when the legislative process works...

[Cleita]

10. Somehow I disagree. You might as well just

get a Republican because that is what you've got. The trouble is in Washington DINOs, Republican Lites, Blue Dogs, whatever the term, screw up the caucus. At least if you know they are Republicans, then you know where they belong. Instead you end up with watered down legislation to please them. I'm done with that. Other states have gotten around that by running their progressives as independents in conservative states. One of our progressives in my conservative county runs as an independent, which gets her the job, yet we can count on her to do the right thing. For some reason or the other the Republicans haven't a clue. All they know is that she doesn't have a D after her name.

[SpartanDem]

11. A Republican isn't going vote with you 70-80%

of the time, you replace Blue Dogs with real GOP that means you don't pass legislation like Lilly Ledbetter. There seems to be the mindset amoungst a large portion of DU that if you run progressive candidates in conservative states that people are going to have an awakening. If you think you're tired of watered down legislation for blue dogs let see how you feel when you can't even get that.

[liberal N proud]

3. The letter should be published in every paper in her district

Ads should be run on TV in her district calling her out on this.

And every one in Congress should get the same treatment for opposing public health care.

[Thrill]

4. That was before she got the check in the mail

from the health industry

[tularetom]

6. Jeezus is she worthless or what?

that's one of the most blatant and overt flip flops I've ever seen.

Why does this spineless POS even bother to call herself a Dem. She'd stand a better hance of re-election as a republicon and she could be even more overt in her spinelessness.

Perhaps she's as dumb as she is cowardly.

Ya know we have a lot of Dems like that. Especially in the Senate. Starting with Joe Loserman.

And to make matters worse the leader is the biggest invertebrate of all.

Obama really needs to kick some ass on the hill if he wants any of his legislative program to pass.

[Honeycombe8]

8. She's in a red state. I expect she'd be voted out if she went along w/a public option. nt