National Nurses Movement has a wonderful diary at MyDD about all the single payer bills in the states (but leaves out the legislation in Maryland). Please read about all the good news in California, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, and Washington.

Clearly single payer is a political winner, witness the increasing momentum in an atmosphere where the national media has airbrushed out all discussion of single payer.

The most important thing is to make sure that whatever Obama does, no federal legislation prohibit the states from creating their own single payer systems.

She Me Progress

I'm grateful to be living in Lacy Clay's district. I didn't have to wonder: I knew he'd vote against that FISA travesty. He's an HR 676 co-sponsor. He opposed the war before it ever began. And so forth. His politics are progressive.

Emanuel Cleaver, the only practicing minister in congress, is a co-sponsor of HR 676, Medicare for All. He is also the sponsor of a resolution on the environment passed by the Progressive Baptist Convention.

Clever represents Missouri's Fifth Congressional District which includes Kansas City, Independence, and the surrounding areas.