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Whether you’re making a contribution, reading countdowntohealthcare.com, sending Facebook messages, or joining me in our online chats, grassroots supporters from red and blue states have overwhelmed me these past months with their steadfast support for our campaign to keep the public option alive.

Eric Seader from New York creatively remixed my floor speech where I called the GOP what they are: wholly owned subsidiaries of the health insurance industry. I got such a kick out of his remix that I thought I would pass it along to you. Let’s just add it to our “Public Option” playlist on Itunes.

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Anthony

As I recently told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, “It takes a great woman to build a barn, but any jackass can kick it down.”

That’s how I described the battle for health care and the role Fox News is playing. (They are not the “great woman,” by the way).

Yesterday I told Fox News directly that enough is enough with their misinformation campaign on health care. I told the hosts of Fox and Friends straight out that shows like theirs have featured lies and distortions about health care.

The reason some extremely popular and common sense health care reforms have been ruled off the table is precisely because we’re fighting off an obstructionist Republican Party on one hand and a misinformation campaign by Fox News on the other.

They tried to resist, but I refused to let them off the hook. Fox and Friends spent months talking about death panels and the miles of other health care lies that Republicans and opponents have spun.

We cannot continue to let Fox get away with this. Our future depends on this debate being about truth, not Fox’s agenda.

I said it on Wednesday, and I’ll say it again: the Republicans really are just a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry.

Thursday’s summit proved it: They want to destroy Medicare, shovel money to insurance companies, and screw over the American people.

First we let the Gang of Six make the rules, then we let Olympia Snowe and Joe Lieberman have their turn.  It got us nothing!

We need to let the majority make the rules. The public option passed in the House and it’s time to force a vote in the Senate.

I liveblogged the summit at Daily Kos to make sure a strong pro-public-option voice was heard.  Thousands of netroots activists joined my call to action and I want to thank everyone who took part.

Click here to read my liveblog of Thursday’s health care summit. Don’t tell John Boehner what I wrote about him.

In response to the clear influence of insurance industry lobbying at Thursday’s summit, I’ve set a goal to organize 2,000 donors to show that people are willing to stand up to the special interests and “do nothing” Republicans.

Thanks to the generous outpouring of grassroots support, we’re blasting through our goal. In the spirit of raising expectations in Washington, I’ve set a new goal 2,500 donors.

Click here to rush a contribution to my campaign and join my fight for the public option. We’re close to reaching our ambitious goal and even as little as $5 from you will show the Republicans that they won’t scare us into submission.

A majority of Americans support the public option.  The President supports a public option.  A majority of Democrats in the House of Representatives support the public option. And thousands of supporters–from red and blue states–are standing with me at countdowntohealthcare.com.

So why are we negotiating with a bunch of obstructionist Republicans and trying to appease Joe Lieberman?  I can’t count a single vote this strategy has brought us.

It’s time to govern like a real majority and get things done for the American people.  I hope you’ll join my call to action.

Click here to rush a contribution to my campaign and join my fight for public option.

Anthony