Congressional Switchboards Flooded With Health Care Call Deluge!

[dixiegrrrrl]

Good to hear people on not sitting on their hands, no matter what they are calling about.

"In what seems to be the final (really!) push on health care reform on Capitol Hill, offices have been deluged with phone calls from across the country. They are pro-reform, anti-reform, blasting reconciliation or begging for an up-or-down vote - engaged voters who are attempting to influence the course of what will be a razor-close vote this weekend.

No one has been more targeted than the 37 House Democrats who voted "No" the first time around on health care, the majority of which did so under the mantle of fiscal responsibility. They are prime gets for Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the White House, who need to peel off a few to make up for the lost votes due to retirements and a change in the abortion provisions in the legislation.

At one point this week, the calls shut down the Congressional switchboard. Democrats would not release a tally of their organized effort but said the calls seems to surpass the record number set last fall."

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/busy-signal-or-breakthrough-congressional-switchboards-flooded-with-health-care-call-deluge.php?ref=mp

[tridim]

1. Just caught my daily 2 minutes of Rush's show..

He is telling his listeners specifically to call and tie up the lines.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. You mean the focus is on tie-ing up the lines more than just a normal call?

To block other calls?

[Xenotime]

3. Isn't that obstruction or something?