Here’s a hint to the rest of you Blue Dogs: if you want to be re-elected, it’s always a good idea to listen to the voters:

Congressman Shuler, of course, does not agree with everything we had to say, but there was much in our discussion that we did agree upon. In my opinion, he seem to agree that this plan is too expensive. He seemed to agree that the burden on small business owners was unacceptable. He seemed to agree that the exchange system needed much improvement.

Before we closed the meeting, Congressman Shuler told us he will vote no on HR3200.

He was very gracious and he spent well over an hour chatting with us when he had originally planned to only give us about a half and hour.

House Democrats have a margin of about 40 seats. That means we need about 39 more.