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Aux telephones, citoyens! Quick, before their pragmatism kills us all!

Mon, 08/31/2009 - 12:01am — hipparchia

On the one hand, I have whispering in my ear a little birdie who confides that approximately 225 members of the House of Representatives think that universal single payer national health insurance is the way to go. 225. Last I checked, the House is supposed to have 435 members [of whom 256 are Democrats], and last I checked, 225 was slightly more than half of 435.

Isn't there some kind of rule somewhere that says if we have more than half the votes, we get to pass the legislation? Seems to me I remember hearing about this concept somewhere.

Meanwhile, whispering in the other ear is another little birdie telling me that House members who went so far as to cosponsor HR 676 are now saying they prefer HR 3200 instead, at least when it comes to voting on Anthony Weiner's amendment.

WTF?! Clearly, these traitors-to-be need to hear from us again, loudly and in huge numbers. Call. Fax. Send postcards. Show up at their offices. They're supposed to be in their districts, working, through Sept 4.

Who to start with?

How about these 4 first, since they're all saying they'll vote NO:

followed by these 6, since they sponsored HR 676 before, but not this time:

followed by these 2, who may still support it but seem to be wavering:

followed by these 3, who appear to be in favor of HR 676, and should maybe hear a few encouraging words from voters:

and lastly, though he's not mentioned in the article, but just because he is the leader of the Populist Caucus and if any caucus ought to be rabidly supporting HR 676 it should be one calling itself populist:

Plus, I constantly e-mail Speaker Nancy. You can too.

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God damnit.

By jumpjet on Mon, 08/31/2009 - 12:22am

Now I really hope HR3200 dies in the Senate. Then these vacillators can go back to supporting single-payer.

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Nothing is true; everything is permitted.

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i know

By hipparchia on Mon, 08/31/2009 - 1:37am

i've spent that past few weeks not really spreading any lies about the proposed deforms reforms, but going to much trouble to refute them either, especially since there's a kernel of truth in all of them, even if it's no bigger than say, a mustard seed.

death panels? no, not really, but the democrats really do think that old people are using up too many of our precious medical resources. medicare cuts? yes, no more subsidies to blood-sucking leeches insurance companies, but obama also mentions other unspecified cuts. etc.

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I Just Emailed Jim Moran

By BDBlue on Mon, 08/31/2009 - 12:45am

Telling him that I was very disappointed he'd dropped his sponsorship of HR 676 and urging him to vote for Weiner's amendment.

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"Do what you feel in your heart to be right -- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. " - Eleanor Roosevelt

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you might be interested

By hipparchia on Mon, 08/31/2009 - 1:44am

[if you haven't already seen them] in some of the posts by this constituent of moran's.

thanks for emailing.

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Got my letter off to my Rep, Hipparchia

By Sarah on Tue, 09/01/2009 - 1:21am

and an email to his chief assistant for legislative matters. His email, which is by form only, is currently down. :(

Go over to YouTube for LubbockLeft's videos of the Neugebauer Town Hall, by the way.

Or you can go to www.lubbockonline.com, click on Blogs and choose LubbockLeft.

Sigh. The birthers have come to my town. We had a woman file suit today alleging the President is really an Indonesian named Barry Soetero.... and of course, ineligible to be President of the United States. This made the 10 p.m. news on Fox (of course) and the (right-leaning) NBC affilliate. The "doctor" in question is Penny Kelso, a veterinarian here in Lubbock whose record is, to put it mildly, checkered.

I'm taking my nasty sore throat and dry cough off to bed now...

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We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0

1 John 4:18

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birthers! arrrrrrgh!

By hipparchia on Tue, 09/01/2009 - 10:53pm

and apparently an incompetent vet too. endangering both us and our pets, yay.

thanks for writing to your rep.

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