David Sirota on The Democrats Blocking Health Care Reform

howard dot davis wrote he's author of the hostile takeover and the uprising a will start uprising is foreseen democrats in congress did welcome back to the young turks they'd have a good uh... alright elie wiesel matter these thirteen democrats what article look at everything we've actually blocking destructive health care reform in the congress and what you have it really boils down to fix senators republicans and democrats and about seven saw helped democrats on the commerce committee base of the folks who had threatened this stop health-care reforms in their committees thoughts and split you find is that um... most of them on our arms small states up and uh... and very very under vs mostly end house mostly southern democrats in senate mostly small states republicans and democrats and they get a huge amount of money from the health insurance industry that's not surprising it and throw what you really have a is um... the undemocratic nature of the congress of the ability to bottle of pills the senate committee in the senate the ability of senators from places like wyoming and montana have as much work really in this case more of a city then it's a huge state alike california new york uh... to really block uh... health care reform on behalf of money interest swells looks until you're sure to parse this one alisha so starting as physical obviously couldn't do it if they didn't have the entire republican party voting with so that i i think that that certainly crew i don't really think that that that's true in a in a general but i think we can is that the that first and foremost we're not seeing a boat off orders those thirteen are pregnant too not even let the bill moved forward to a vote of before congress in that sense they are really obstructing the entire bill on behalf of the rest of the congress alright handley you mention that their come from very on diverse places but they also go from places uses mentioning your articles that are poor than average pierre yes so they should be motivated defeated about their constituents tax you want to get health care reform deciduous needed more than average american so i don't think diversity or lack of diversity plays into a much well i think i think look crap but economic wep and wait on hard to are hard to desegregate and so you can make the case fits billion not in coming from the book the from districts that are not very diverse i did you get your show and the map they have impart lower percentages of the population of the description questions off our haha far lower percentage of african-americans and latinos than the public demands nation as a whole and you know those are two communities that are going to be disproportionately impacted apart disproportionate investment in health care by virtue of the fact that those are two communities that are have higher unsure in trade i've been than spend the rest of the country and so you can make the case did that these legislators because they don't those communities in a representative kind away when they go home to those districts they have potentially more latitude showing to be in charge of the things that you could also argue has ended and i mention this to my column but you're right fifty pictures also happen to be disproportionately offcourse than the rest of the country and so people trick from an economic perspective as a whole have more to gain from that universal healthcare coverage then that the rest of the country by the recipient half of the game by it but with poverty rates that are hired per capita incomes that are lower in the district they have more today and that then get the three issue of campaign finance reform right what days leads in the second and with that is so there's a lot of rising in ourselves a chorus avm is why i think you made in interesting point a senators and shoot abide by the airport for the health care industry so tell us what why you say that what you mean by well you could basically the way a lobbyist torn interest group besides loyalty from from a senator to the campaign finance system it could and effectively by them to stop re-election campaign commercials and so states that and district there are more world cost for television airtime is cheaper two million dollars strengthened to one of the three million dollars cut backs pockets of montana three million dollars in the us like montana because the spare time television air time mister chief three million dollars trillions spotty oak total broke by the entire senator from montana whereas it's harder to have three million dollars by david senator from california where it costs a lot more were t_v_ time is more expensive at about the fate of big state senators trooper big-money either but particularly in the world that happened to be very poor worked hard for legislators to raise lots of money in the special-interest washington special interests easier and cheaper for them to buy those senators and makeover five thirty eight dot com if subsequent post after my column he actually looked at their d recipient of corporate pac money and what he found was at the top aides out of the top twenty recipient to quote the pac money all twenty of them are produced state good habits left in the mean population of the country we needed to keep the faith and divided into the photo into the port authority and i think it's company in population and basically what we found that the corporate tax actually target their money senators from smaller cheaper states to buy it television air time is sue second layer that david as i was thinking of you know it's also harder for them to raise in smaller cities significant in-state fundraising from the actual constituents exactly right and uh... and that's why max baucus is refer to as the senator from case this year is almost no money for montana there is a tremendous amount of money from pastry right my plan is one of the poorest state in the country i keep you can read but you cannot raise who i think you're eight nine million dollars into blast election and you cannot raise nine million dollars in campaign contributions uh... in montana i mean there's not a thousand people of montana it's a very poor states but you can raise that money in washington and here to get the worst part about it if it's not only did the money go farther not of a cheaper for awash in special interest abide a rural states congressperson or senator you could be a very difficult to melt to challenge tibet senator when the raising such a disproportionately huge amount of money from washington in other words it's very difficult the challenge that senator in a reelection ritual primary rate at home because they have had to relatively overwhelming amount of money still for us at about what what we can do about this scenario the long run his campaign finance reform but in the short run dudack rats have to call out their fellow democrats and say look the reality is one of the ways of insurance card companies are going to try to kill this is by sending had money and other ways to ease new rioted town halls of we covered today with their faith grassroots efforts for the third way is by buying our fellow democratic senators and congressmen yeah i think i think that what we can do right now it could be one depict the easiest way to knock off of one of the members of congress in the movies with scare them it scare them through a potential primary press yugos are very very small turnout election and the smaller the travel lecture you get money complainer webster and lester important role so it's hard it will be put into the montana be particularly hard from max baucus to charge to be able to win the democratic primary just with money so i think he can be scared or somebody like him to be scared also think that we need to all probably what's going to have to happen to have to encourage the democrats uh... to use uh... any means necessary to pass this bill by that i mean there's talk of the senate of doing a reconciliation bill which would basically circumvent the filibuster there was talk analysis saying forget the commerce committee just bring the bill that's already passed a couple other committees to the fourth floor of the house and pass it do to help it's going to require those kind of bare-knuckle tactics to pass a bill i think that importance we have one minute left cisa reconciliation it dvds bluffing or is there any chance there s actually do this because the real question is do they want to pass real health care for example have something the question is whether it's real it was a public option so i'd rather have faria might might get the dedicated actually career because i think by the way the pup political dynamic is working for progressive and i think that they could obama is clearly pop promised real health care reform the public will know if it's not real because you can't fake *** once people are going to know regular bellevue health care bills and help could your health care bill clinton and your health care coverage one up so he knows he can't fake it democrats basically you're going to aren't going to know if they can't take it i think and they're going to have to deliver to p counselor but i think they're gonna know they're going to pay a political price fossils thanks basic