President Obama has made it crystal clear that he has no intention of walking away from health reform -- and this movement has made its desire to fight on just as clear.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
http://www.senate.gov/...
The second one is the easy, sure way to contact your senator. I just keep all my filled in forms bookmarked and I send a message every day.
When you go to any of the Presidents websites, you may get one of several messages that they are trying to get out, but the one above was the one I read when I woke up today. There are two ways to get healthcare reform. You do this and the President can do the rest. That's it, us and him, two ways. Congress can't stop him if we make it clear that millions of us won't stand for it. And we need millions in every state, but the key, do one thing every single day.
The single group that is most afraid of change is elderly people. The republicans are targeting them hardest with the fear campaign. They are going to vote against their own medicare if we don't stop them. The republicans are going to take on Medicare and Social Security. They are determined to get rid of it. They are wealthy, they will make sure their parents and grandparents have health insurance. Who am I kidding? What insurance company is going to let a Senator's grandmother or mother go uninsured.
Your grandparents and mine... the republicans don't want one more tax dollar going to them. We could have to stand by and watch as our elderly people die, without even the money for a doctor. And if they get control of Congress and the Presdency, we will never see Medicare again, and Social Security gets invested in the stock market. So you can just pay your SS tax right into their bank account. Why go through a middle man?
Last year, 137 House Republicans voted to convert the Medicare program that provides 46 million Americans with health insurance into a system of vouchers. (In September, Sarah Palin penned a Wall Street Journal op-ed which similarly called for "providing Medicare recipients with vouchers that allow them to purchase their own coverage.") Now, as Ezra Klein, Matthew Yglesias and TPM all noted, the GOP's Paul Ryan is making the privatization of Medicare the centerpiece of a new Republican deficit reduction gambit.
http://www.perrspectives.com/...
Right now... the President goes to Congress, he gets them all fired up about a healthcare bill, Evan Bayh says he won't vote for it, whatever it is. So the President rounds up some other support. But he's carrying them in a sieve. Scott Brown gets elected and the sieve practically empties. You are literally the only thing that can give him a hammer. It has to be pressure they can't withstand. He has to hold it over their heads. We can't write by the millions one month and expect it to hold over to the next month, the Republican scare machine is relentless.
Family feud: Pelosi at odds with Obama
Nancy Pelosi's increasingly public disagreements with the president reflect something deeper.
The Obama administration's efforts to find common ground with congressional Republicans ran into two pockets of resistance Tuesday: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader John Boehner.
At a closed-door White House session, Pelosi expressed skepticism over an administration proposal to offer tax breaks to businesses that create new jobs. And Boehner urged President Barack Obama to abandon much of the Democrats' current agenda on the ground that it's killing jobs by creating uncertainty in the markets.
Great. This is disgusting... "reflect something deeper" what... her disgust for the American people. The headline alone is something that everyone needs to write Pelosi about. Who do you think told freaking Politico that Pelosi was disagreeing with the President. Let's see, there were three people in the room. She can't shut up until Boehner is out of earshot. Will the people in her state please copy this headline and the caption under the photo and write that this is not acceptable.
Apparently she informed the President that "consultants" she asked say his jobs plan might now work. Well, Nancy, why don't you let us in on who you consult and why. We sent you there to do a job and it was to get the President's agenda done. We don't need the Speaker of the House to obstruct, we've got 50 people who do that now. (Bayh, Nelson, et al)
Read more: http://www.politico.com/...
I am always careful to use a .gov site that asks you to fill out a form, because some of the sites appear very suspicious. The site in the introduction is safe. You give them a lot of information but they don't tell you much about your Senator. I think it goes straight into the RNC databank.
Speaking of which, I had an idiot tell me (sometimes you run into one) that he read the Wall Street Journal online every day just to see what Carl Rove writes. He's supposedly laying out the "plan" for how to pick the candidate for 2012 and other nefarious schemes. Seems to me that if you want to hide the fact that you're the print media arm of the RNC you might not want Rove writing a column. I wish they'd get Glenn Beck to do the front page.
But we can fight the impact of every word Rupert Mucdock controls. If we just did two things they would be out of the ballgame. 1. Contact a Congressperson daily. 2. Write a letter to the editor, online is fine. It would have a devastating effect on Republicans.
And just for fun, write a letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal every day, and tell them you'd love to hear what Glenn Beck has to say about the markets.
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