When the going gets tough, the President gets support.

..."A new coalition on Thursday (click title to entry - thank you) is launching $12 million in television ads to support President Barack Obama’s health-reform plan, in the opening wave of a planned tens of millions of dollars this fall.
"The new group, funded largely by the pharmaceutical industry, is called Americans for Stable Quality Care. It includes some odd bedfellows: the American Medical Association (click here), FamiliesUSA (click here - Number of Americans that have lost health care insurance since January 1, 2008 - 3,722,053), the Federation of American Hospitals (click here for the view point of investor owned hospital community),PhRMA (click here - medications are only 10% of every health care dollar) and SEIU (click here - stop the violence at American Town Hall Health Care Meetings), the service employees’ union…



"The debut ad is meant to shore up support among the conservative House Blue Dog Democrats, and to target swing senators. So it’s airing in Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota and Virginia. The first buy is expected to run for two weeks, with a weekly spend of around $3 million....