WE need to use the august recess to POUND on our reps while they are home.

[dysfunctional press]

call your rep's office TODAY and see if/what they have planned as far as any face-to-face contact with the voters, and get like-minded people to ATTEND. LET THEM KNOW HOW YOU/WE FEEL!

if they don't have any events planned- request that they DO.

personally, i think that every rep should be required to have a 'town-hall' meeting within their district during the recess, on the topic of healthcare.

we need to use this opportunity to make our voices heard, and in a BIG way.

THIS may be the most important legislation in ANY of our lifetimes- the implications/incentives for our selves and our economy are ENORMOUS, and the efforts we need to make to get it are just as enormous.

call your reps TODAY

[cali]

1. good advice. glad to live someplace where it's not needed.

I had dinner about 6 weeks ago with Bernie- well me, and anyone else in the area who wanted to come down to the local high school. Dinner provided by the co-op. The topic was healthcare. Bernie holds town meetings all the time. Peter Welch does as well. Leahy doesn't hold as many but he's pretty accessible. All three strongly support a public option, and Bernie and Peter support single payer. I'm not sure where Pat stands on single payer.

In any case, I'm grateful to live in a state where I'm truly represented.

[dysfunctional press]

2. i wish i was in the same situation....

i live in denny hastert's old district- we've got a good dem in there now, bill foster- but there's a LOT of repug sentiment in this area.

[UTUSN]

3. Uh, they're going to say they LISTENED and what they heard was WINGNUT SPEECH. n/t

[dysfunctional press]

7. especially if that's all they do hear, because our defeatists don't think it's worth the effort.

personally, i think that it's ultimately going to take GIANT vietnam-era style marches on the capitol to get what the people want and NEED.

but- you gotta start somewhere.

[UTUSN]

10. When 2 for 2 Senators are Wingnut Rethugs, the 1 Rep is a wimp, yeah, that's "defeatiswm" n/t

[Warpy]

4. Remind the overstuffed darlings what happened

the last time they had an opportunity to solve the health care mess and blew it. It was 1994 and their overprivileged asses got thrown out of Congress and kept out for 12 long years.

It can and will happen again, no matter how loony the GOPs are. A weak, spineless party of do nothings will get ousted. They need to know this.

The backlash for another failure to deal with health care will be aimed squarely where it belongs, at the party that had the numbers but not the will.

[Blaze Diem]

5. Good Luck finding any of them..They'll all be off vacationing at the behest of the Healthcare Lobby.

Enjoying the finest in R&R..golf courses, sun & surf, at a world class private & privileged, bought & paid for discreet location far removed from the co-opting, single-paying, public optioned rants of the wanting American taxpayers.

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[dysfunctional press]

6. try calling their local office and ask...or just figure that healthcare isn't worth all that effort.

either way.

[floridablue]

8. And make a few recess appointments to the Courts of Appeal

Or maybe the Court of Appeals too.

[johnhkennedy]

9. Dems who failed to Impeach, who Fail to Investigate & Prosecute Torture - Won't Get Us Single Payer

Simply because they don't have the courage.

Apparently we the voters have failed as well to discipline our Congressmen to understand that they Must Do What We Want or We'll Replace Them. They are already in a new campaign for re-election in 2010 and we the voters have new power to push our politicians in the right direction but We Must Use IT. Unless We have the guts to threaten their re-election, we will not see a change in their behavior.

We need Single Payer, but I personally doubt that Democratic Congressmen that refuse to call for prosecution of our Federal Anti-Torture Laws and refuse to investigate the crimes of Bush and Cheney, Will Ever Get US what we need. They are apparently Soft On Crime.

Prosecute all those that tortured in our name, then go after all the other Federal Crimes and violations of our Constitution committed by Bush and Cheney.


If House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers does not soon start hearings in his Committee
on the crimes of the Bush Administration

WE Must Call For His Resignation.



SIGN THE PETITIONS
Demanding
both a Commission of Inquiry
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We must hang in there...
or our children or grandchildren may
be tortured and imprisoned without cause because of our failure