I'm tired of talking about the FAIL (which doesn't mean it isn't important to document the atrocities, just that I'm tired). I want to talk about the good things folks are doing and Sarah suggested I put this one in a post and sticky it, so here it is.

The website democrats.com, which is not an official party website but advertises itself as "aggressive progressives" (a sure sign it's not the party's website), asked the site's 600,000 subscribers to call members of the Energy & Commerce Committee to whip for Weiner's single payer amendment. You can see the results here. While the decision late Friday to take it to the full house obviously negates some importance of this info, I think it's still useful since all of these folks are, of course, House members.

More importantly, I fully expect these folks to also whip for the full floor vote given that they seem pretty strongly single payer. When they do, I'll post the info unless someone else beats me to it. And they've been working in other ways to add pressure. For example, they adeveloped an online petition that can be sent to Congress members.

So the question is how do we bring together the websites that are doing the work? I'm sure there are others.

I figure I got a whole new blog reading list out of last year's primary and I'm better off for it. Here's basically another opportunity to expand our internet horizons.

And via the comments at democrats.com, a commercial for the California Single Payer system that could be used to support Medicare for all just as easily:

NOTE - I'm sure I don't have to add, but I will that others should feel free to de-sticky if this gets in the way of more important posts.