Click on this link to post questions for Yves Smith, read responses. The full title of her new book is ECONNED: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism.

Her blog is Naked Capitalism, always interesting if only for her Antidote du Jour feature.

Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to contribute to a blizzard of faxes to our Dems who think single payer should not be on the table, to "Make Them Do It." Takes minutes (unless you're longwinded with your comment).

Gob, at CorrenteWire, has posted about an organization, 1payer.net, which will fax your messages to Baucus, Pelosi, the WH, etc.

It appears that Congressional leaders are being deliberately dismissive of single-payer to the point of ludicrous statements. It's like they have put their fingers in their ears and are yelling "I can't hear you, I can't hear you." Here they are in all their Congressional member glory: