‘Wake the F$*^ Up!’

[Joanne98]

health care reform is in real danger of failing and thus the Obama presidency failing and thus us failing. We really need to wake the fuck up! Democratic weasals like Baucus and Bayh are crawling out of their holes onto the set of shows like Morning Joe because they sense the President is weakened. You’re going to see more and more conservative to moderate Democrats start chanting, “we can’t deficit spend our way to health care reform.” That chant is soon going to grow into chorus and eventually it’s going to drown out calls for health care altogether. What are you going to whine about then?! If the President goes down, everything that we campaigned for goes down. We really need to get our priorities straight and our shit together before this all comes to an end.

As I posted earlier this week, but here’s another reminder:

PLEASE CALL the White House and let President Obama know that you don’t want him to consider the “7-year trigger” for the public option. Let him know that you’re ANGRY that he’s doing this. Tell him it won’t be REAL health care reform without an immediately available, strong, robust Medicare-like public option.

CALL the White House at: 202-456-1111 and E-MAIL them as well!

PLEASE CALL these Senators on the Senate Finance Committee today to demand a strong, robust affordable Medicare-like public option. Here’s a list of talking points below:

Tell Senator that you DO NOT want the 7-year trigger for the public option and take it off the table, and that you want him to support an affordable strong, robust Medicare-like public option. We NEED a strong, robust Medicare-like public option NOW OPEN TO ALL AMERICANS AND AFFORDABLE, not more of the SAME broken system that’s given us unaffordable premiums, little private insurance coverage, and rising co-pays. Also, DON’T TAX OUR EMPLOYER HEALTH BENEFITS. Instead, follow the proposal by President Obama to tax the wealthy above $250,000, eliminate the overpayments in Medicare Advantage, and put tax capital gains to help fund health care reform.


Please CALL Senator Max Baucus at [phone]

Please CALL Senator Charles Schumer at 202-224-6542

Please CALL Senator Edward Kennedy at [phone]

Please CALL Senator John Rockefeller at [phone]

Please CALL Senator Ron Wyden at [phone]

Please CALL Senator Kent Conrad at [phone]

Please CALL Senator Jeff Bingaman at [phone]

Please CALL Senator John Kerry at [phone]

Please CALL Senator Blanche Lincoln at 202-224-4843

Please CALL Senator Debbie Stabenow at [phone]

Please CALL Senator Maria Cantwell at 202-224-3441

Please CALL Senator Bill Nelson at 202-224-5274

Please CALL Senator Robert Menendez at 202-224-4744

Please CALL Senator Thomas Carper at [phone]

MAKE THOSE CALLS.

http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/06/wake-the-f-up/

[Joanne98]

1. I just talked to a Kennedy staffer and asked him if he knew Max Baucus was going

On a fishing trip this weekend with lobbyists. He said he didn't know. I tried to call Baucus but he's phone is BUSY!

[truedelphi]

2. You know, A lot of people fought the good fight for so long

Regarding the election process in this country.

We finally get an election wherein the winning spot is not given to the Republican, and now I am supposed to keep fighting and working and informing and faxing and mailing and calling etc so that this Democratic person who now occupies the Presidency, will do the right thing. WIll it ever end?

Obama occupies the highest position in this land in part because of the tireless activism of people who would not know what a lobbyist looked like if one rang their doorbell and introduced themselves. In other words, he should try caring about the People and not about who his campaign donors will be.

For the moment I am plumb tuckered out. It seems no matter what we do, the system works as it was designed to work -- guaranteeing that the rich get theirs and we get the crumbs.

[DemReadingDU]

3. yeh, me too.

Called, faxed, sent email last September to not only my Rep and Senators, but also dozens more not to pass funding for the TARP, that the banksters wouldn't use it to help us, but would end up pocketing our taxmoney. And even though public sentiment was overwhelmingly against the TARP, it was passed anyway. Clearly that showed me that there is a shadow political party that controls our politics and it is not working for the people. Bills and laws are passed or not passed depending whether it is advantageous to the shadow party. Republicans and Democrats are different names for the same politics. Think of Vinca minor. Some people call it periwinkle, others call it creeping myrtle.


Anyway today, I called my Rep (different from last September who retired) and called my Senators, and faxed the White House, to tell them...

1. We need a public option, single payer insurance plan, ASAP.

2. We need the Glass-Steagall act re-instated.

3. Insist on the banks to open their books. Let everyone see how much toxic investments have been hiding. If the banks are insolvent, they need to go bankrupt just like Chrysler and GM.

I doubt any of these items get passed, because they are not advantageous to the shadow party.

[truedelphi]

4. That's impressive.

And I read yesterday some talk that Geithner wants Glass Steagall re-instated. Don't know if he would just put it back in place, or if he'd have to "shine" it up so there were loopholes galore
for the Wall Street crowd to merrily slip through.

But Glass Steagall being put back into place would be a start.

And hopefully next week I'll have more energy than today.

And I cannot but help from feeling good over the House committee examining Bernanke and Paulson over illegalities "that may have occurred" regarding Merrill Lynch and Bank of America.

[eridani]

5. If Geithner actually helps to make that happen--

--what would I have to eat in order to apologize for all the nasty things I've said about him?

[glitch]

6. If that happened I'd have to join you. And I'd be thrilled to, however

nothing in his resume tells me that will happen.

[DemReadingDU]

7. same here

I can't imagine Geithner re-instating the Glass-Steagall, unless he revises it (with loopholes)