You all know that Obama has filled his Cabinet with people with ethical challenges. They fly through without any major challenges. It seems that we are fighting against the wind as we write, call, fax our opposition to the many actions by Obama, Pelosi, Reid and friends.
I have a suggestion. Rather than JUST sending petitions to Washington D.C. and contacting our elected representatives, let's also contact every media outlet we can imagine. Not just this time, but every time you have a concern.
If you call your Senator, call the local news stations, too. If you write your Congressman, write every media outlet you can find (radio, television, newspaper, etc.). Duplicate everything you do ten-fold.
They're saying the opposition isn't there. They're ignoring our pleas for ethical representation. They're treating us like pesky flies that can be swatted away. Let's show them.
Magnify everything you do.
Get the addresses for every media outlet you can find and make sure you copy them when you send your letters. Get the email addresses of every national and local news outlet you can dig up and copy them on every email you send in protest.
Let's overwhelm them. Let's make it impossible for them to ignore us or swat us away.
(I just posted the above on my main personal blog, Barracuda Babes. Figured I'd share it with a few more of my friends on here)
Showing posts with label harry reid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label harry reid. Show all posts
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Monday, April 6, 2009
AFP: Take Action! Tell your Senators to Stop Socialized Health Care
Take Action! (Americans for Prosperity)
We told you about efforts to jam a cap-and-trade energy tax through the Senate using reconciliation, a trick to avoid proper debate and the normal 60 vote requirement for important legislation, and you sprung into action, generating a flood of calls and emails to the Senate and IT WORKED. WE WON that fight and kept cap-and-trade out of reconciliation.
Last week, Sen. Johanns introduced a budget amendment to prohibit the use of reconciliation for cap-and-trade, and it passed on a solid 67-31 vote. Every Republican supported the amendment, as did 26 Democrats. Before the Johanns amendment passed, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid indicated he wanted to do both cap-and-trade and health care under reconciliation, saying that cap-and-trade revenues would be "exactly how much we need for the first phase of health care reform."
Unfortunately, THERE IS NO TIME TO CELEBRATE, because now Democrats are poised to pull the reconciliation trick for their plan to NATIONALIZE AND RATION HEALTH CARE.
There are a few senators that are going to be very influential in this fight. If you know anyone in the following states please forward this email to them: Arkansas, Indiana, Montana, Nevada and North Dakota. We need your help to get the word out!
While the Senate passed a budget resolution without reconciliation language, the House budget specifically includes a section authorizing the use of reconciliation for a national health care plan. This is despite the fact that reconciliation is only relevant in the Senate, where it can short-circuit debate and pass legislation with only 50 votes instead of the regular 60.
This is a TRICK to let Senate Democrats claim they passed a budget without reconciliation, only to have it slipped back in during conference committee, when the House and Senate budgets are combined.
Please click here to send a message to your senator OPPOSING HEALTH CARE RECONCILIATION.
The dean of the Senate, Sen. Robert C. Byrd, Democrat from West Virginia, has made it crystal clear that this is not what reconciliation is for, saying, "I was one of the authors of the legislation that created the budget 'reconciliation' process in 1974, and I am certain that putting health-care reform and climate change legislation on a freight train through Congress is an outrage that must be resisted."
The stakes are enormous. Two big steps toward government-run health care are already in place with the national health information database and the comparative effectiveness research that were hidden in the stimulus plan. We are now only a few steps away from establishing a national health board that will RATION CARE based on the results of comparative effectiveness research, and a coverage mandate designed to, over time, shift more and more people into a government-run and government-controlled health care plan.
Moving health care nationalization through reconciliation will SILENCE moderate Democrats and Republicans and produce the most aggressive, big-government health care plan possible. Any government plan to restructure one sixth of our economy deserves to be debated fully under the regular rules of the Senate.
Please click here to send a message to your senator OPPOSING HEALTH CARE RECONCILIATION.
We told you about efforts to jam a cap-and-trade energy tax through the Senate using reconciliation, a trick to avoid proper debate and the normal 60 vote requirement for important legislation, and you sprung into action, generating a flood of calls and emails to the Senate and IT WORKED. WE WON that fight and kept cap-and-trade out of reconciliation.
Last week, Sen. Johanns introduced a budget amendment to prohibit the use of reconciliation for cap-and-trade, and it passed on a solid 67-31 vote. Every Republican supported the amendment, as did 26 Democrats. Before the Johanns amendment passed, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid indicated he wanted to do both cap-and-trade and health care under reconciliation, saying that cap-and-trade revenues would be "exactly how much we need for the first phase of health care reform."
Unfortunately, THERE IS NO TIME TO CELEBRATE, because now Democrats are poised to pull the reconciliation trick for their plan to NATIONALIZE AND RATION HEALTH CARE.
There are a few senators that are going to be very influential in this fight. If you know anyone in the following states please forward this email to them: Arkansas, Indiana, Montana, Nevada and North Dakota. We need your help to get the word out!
While the Senate passed a budget resolution without reconciliation language, the House budget specifically includes a section authorizing the use of reconciliation for a national health care plan. This is despite the fact that reconciliation is only relevant in the Senate, where it can short-circuit debate and pass legislation with only 50 votes instead of the regular 60.
This is a TRICK to let Senate Democrats claim they passed a budget without reconciliation, only to have it slipped back in during conference committee, when the House and Senate budgets are combined.
Please click here to send a message to your senator OPPOSING HEALTH CARE RECONCILIATION.
The dean of the Senate, Sen. Robert C. Byrd, Democrat from West Virginia, has made it crystal clear that this is not what reconciliation is for, saying, "I was one of the authors of the legislation that created the budget 'reconciliation' process in 1974, and I am certain that putting health-care reform and climate change legislation on a freight train through Congress is an outrage that must be resisted."
The stakes are enormous. Two big steps toward government-run health care are already in place with the national health information database and the comparative effectiveness research that were hidden in the stimulus plan. We are now only a few steps away from establishing a national health board that will RATION CARE based on the results of comparative effectiveness research, and a coverage mandate designed to, over time, shift more and more people into a government-run and government-controlled health care plan.
Moving health care nationalization through reconciliation will SILENCE moderate Democrats and Republicans and produce the most aggressive, big-government health care plan possible. Any government plan to restructure one sixth of our economy deserves to be debated fully under the regular rules of the Senate.
Please click here to send a message to your senator OPPOSING HEALTH CARE RECONCILIATION.
Monday, February 2, 2009
STOP the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009"
This week, the Senate is scheduled to consider the economic stimulus bill. It passed the House last week as H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 with NO support from Republicans. Its cost per family is about $4,300.
BAD IDEAS - "THE DEVIL IN DISGUISE"
The hidden liberal policy agenda inside the 'stimulus bill':
Over $142 Billion in Federal education funds: Nearly double the total outlays for the Department of Education in 2007 - making good on Reid-Pelosi-Obama education promises to the NEA.
$87 Billion Medicaid bailout: If we keep bailing states out without any accountability, they will have every incentive to continue irresponsible spending. It forces fiscally responsible taxpayers in states, like Indiana, to pay for the fiscally irresponsible decisions, by bureaucrats, in states like Illinois.
Expanded Medicaid coverage and SCHIP: Congress is using the stimulus to push forward their liberal health care agenda. This incremental strategy will ultimately move the country closer to the tipping point where government will control more health care spending than the private sector - leaving individuals and families with less control over their personal health care decisions.
Green Jobs?: The myth of 'green jobs' merely means replacing one job lost, with a new job that fits the left's agenda. It is a zero sum game. More than doubling spending, the stimulus also has over $35 billion for the Dept. of Energy. DOE's current budget is $23.8 billion.
Redistribution: Refundable "Make Work Pay" Tax Credits for people who don't pay taxes.
Pork Spending: TV Coupons ($650 M), Nat'l Endowment for the Arts ($50 M), Hollywood ($246 M.)
Stop this spending bill! Call your Senators (Republican and Democrat) and tell them to vote "NO" on this bill. Contact information can be found at http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102438502210&e=001So82mBW5uZGmO896hC3K1OHO0N16JZJsPINHvEJAPMw82w9-lnb9BMnnc7X4ByP6trHVeQk-Li4A7lVjYM1fWqb2lYhwS9YtA7KzZMNdg-r9BMZbFwY46Q== or call 202-224-3121.
Sources:
http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102438502210&e=001So82mBW5uZHx9B9zJ8RJ1LKYBVdHQC0iM5HxvLz71rZJyD8JjHHX6lSfPU_kx-rvTKYnQiZ3KzgYpDyBXaqmYSBQDWkhPq1Da9u7BKgYlffufI95fa6Ckyx1WxFeh69XTYnuiMROSjFlnCTTKkU9DlSovu0NQtaHUOu8ZO0Bhbn7O6JpRKpJTAR1S0CxTFlKrxbl2ulTNs7PbEWGmErQKX-sj6iLfkLGAeA7mevINno=
http://www.washingtonwatch.com/
From: National Federation of Republican Women CAP Alert
ACT NOW!
Stop the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Call your Senators (Republican and Democrat) and tell them to vote "NO." Contact information can be found at www.senate.gov or call 202-224-3121.
BAD IDEAS - "THE DEVIL IN DISGUISE"
The hidden liberal policy agenda inside the 'stimulus bill':
Over $142 Billion in Federal education funds: Nearly double the total outlays for the Department of Education in 2007 - making good on Reid-Pelosi-Obama education promises to the NEA.
$87 Billion Medicaid bailout: If we keep bailing states out without any accountability, they will have every incentive to continue irresponsible spending. It forces fiscally responsible taxpayers in states, like Indiana, to pay for the fiscally irresponsible decisions, by bureaucrats, in states like Illinois.
Expanded Medicaid coverage and SCHIP: Congress is using the stimulus to push forward their liberal health care agenda. This incremental strategy will ultimately move the country closer to the tipping point where government will control more health care spending than the private sector - leaving individuals and families with less control over their personal health care decisions.
Green Jobs?: The myth of 'green jobs' merely means replacing one job lost, with a new job that fits the left's agenda. It is a zero sum game. More than doubling spending, the stimulus also has over $35 billion for the Dept. of Energy. DOE's current budget is $23.8 billion.
Redistribution: Refundable "Make Work Pay" Tax Credits for people who don't pay taxes.
Pork Spending: TV Coupons ($650 M), Nat'l Endowment for the Arts ($50 M), Hollywood ($246 M.)
Stop this spending bill! Call your Senators (Republican and Democrat) and tell them to vote "NO" on this bill. Contact information can be found at http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102438502210&e=001So82mBW5uZGmO896hC3K1OHO0N16JZJsPINHvEJAPMw82w9-lnb9BMnnc7X4ByP6trHVeQk-Li4A7lVjYM1fWqb2lYhwS9YtA7KzZMNdg-r9BMZbFwY46Q== or call 202-224-3121.
Sources:
http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102438502210&e=001So82mBW5uZHx9B9zJ8RJ1LKYBVdHQC0iM5HxvLz71rZJyD8JjHHX6lSfPU_kx-rvTKYnQiZ3KzgYpDyBXaqmYSBQDWkhPq1Da9u7BKgYlffufI95fa6Ckyx1WxFeh69XTYnuiMROSjFlnCTTKkU9DlSovu0NQtaHUOu8ZO0Bhbn7O6JpRKpJTAR1S0CxTFlKrxbl2ulTNs7PbEWGmErQKX-sj6iLfkLGAeA7mevINno=
http://www.washingtonwatch.com/
From: National Federation of Republican Women CAP Alert
ACT NOW!
Stop the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Call your Senators (Republican and Democrat) and tell them to vote "NO." Contact information can be found at www.senate.gov or call 202-224-3121.
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