Rejects thousand of good paying jobs.

Rejects lower cost oil for the US.

Rejects the lowest CO2 transportation option for that oil.

Accepts greater dependency on oil from the likes of Saudi and Venezuela in place of friendlier Canada.

This first-person account brings readers inside the biggest and most consequential issue campaign in American history. Fighting for Our Health recounts how a reform campaign led by grassroots organizers played a crucial role in President Obama's signing historic health reform legislation in March of 2010--defeating the tea partiers, Republican Party, health insurance industry, and the US Chamber of Commerce. The action takes place inside the Beltway--the White House, Congressional anterooms, and the streets of DC--and at hundreds of town meetings, demonstrations, and confrontations in places like Danville, Virginia and Lincoln, Nebraska.

The book describes the tense relationship between progressives and the Obama administration, as the President and his team both pushed for reform and made repeated concessions to the health care industry, while trying to squelch any pressure from the left.

"The sides have been in a back-and-forth since last week over the role of outside spending in the hotly contested Senate race. They agreed to let their campaign managers meet this Friday in an attempt to negotiate an enforceable deal."

The deal being discussed:

"if outside groups spend money on advertisements to support him or denounce Warren, his campaign would have to donate 50 percent of the cost of the advertising to a charity of Warren's choice. The same rule would apply to Warren's campaign.

"the candidates sign a joint letter "explicitly notifying known third party groups - and new groups as they emerge - of the agreement.""