[A] progressive should step up with an amendment to strip out the mandate [forcing everybody to buy shitty for-profit insurance, punishing already screwed over vulnerable Americans while rewarding the villains whose outrageous misbehavior created the need for healthcare reform in the first place --d]. He should get a non-Wall Street Republican to join him, be it Tom Coburn or Jim DeMint, one or more of those guys. And then force a roll call vote on the issue.
Republicans are then forced to make a genuinely difficult position. If they vote "yes" on removing the mandate, they help make the health care bill less electorally toxic, helping Democratic electoral chances in 2012, while also pissing off their insurance industry pals. If they vote "no", then they are exposed as being just as culpable on the issue as the Democrats driving their party off a cliff. In addition, the teabaggers will be incensed, and as we know by now, they're not shy about primary challenges.
So who will step up for the Democrats? Sanders? Franken? Brown? Burris?
Right on with your right-on, Kos. Don't forget, btw, that the Senator might also be "she."
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