Posted on 02/10/2009 6:49:05 AM PST by iceskater
Dear iceskater,
We’re coming down to the wire on this Pelosi/Reid/Obama trillion dollar spending bill and I'm asking you to join me at a rally in Richmond tomorrow to put pressure on our two Virginia senators -- Mark Warner and Jim Webb.
And beyond just putting pressure on these two senators to vote NO, by attending the rally you'll send a message to the media in attendance that there is a strong, energized grassroots movement rallying against the big government, pork barrel politics in Washington, DC.
Here are the details on the NoStimulus event:
When: Tomorrow, Tuesday February 10, 2:00pm EST Where: Richmond, Virginia on the grounds of the historic State Capitol (next to belltower, to be exact) Address: 9th St and Grace St, Richmond, VA Parking: Plenty of parking is available within a block of the State Capitol grounds
For more info: Call our national Americans for Prosperity offices at 202-349-5880 or reply back to this email.
Please email me at tphillips@afp-mail.com to let me know you can attend.
Thank you for signing the NoStimulus.com petition and getting involved! If at all possible, please consider joining us in Richmond for this important event. I know it's a sacrifice but having you at the event will mean a lot to the effort to defeat this legislation.
As you’ve probably seen, President Obama has hit the road with a series of campaign-style events to push the Pelosi-Reid-Obama debt and spending bill. Taxpayers like you and me need to fire back not just in Washington, DC, but all over the nation with big crowds who will stand up and say NO to this trillion-dollar scam!
So many folks on the Big Government side have claimed victory in this battle after last Friday’s wheeling and dealing in the Senate. They claim their so-called “compromise” will bring real savings -- but the Senate version cost $827 billion -- a full $8 billion higher than Nancy Pelosi’s bill passed by the House. The only thing they’ve compromised is your family’s economic wellbeing.
Here is the likely schedule of events for this week in Washington. Starting at noon today the Senate began debating the so-called Nelson-Collins amendment. At 5:30 P.M. today, a vote on whether or not to allow a final vote on this legislation is scheduled and we need 40 senators to vote NO.
If we lose this vote, then a final Senate vote on Nelson-Collins is expected for noon on Tuesday. Once again, we will need 40 senators to vote NO. If we lose this vote, then the battle is still not over because the Senate and House bills will have to go to conference to work out differences in the two bills. We will have a chance to defeat the legislation at this point--more on that later this week if we lose the Senate votes.
But first things first. Please try to join us in Richmond tomorrow. Ask your friends and family to attend -- even if you cannot!
They think we're going to give up and stop fighting back. But you and I know better.
Sincerely,
Tim Phillips President, Americans for Prosperity P.S. We've now broken 100,000 petition signers at NoStimulus.com so thank you for your hard work. This morning I appeared live on FOX News and told millions of Americans about the grassroots army that you are part of as we work to stop this Pelosi/Reid/Obama trillion dollar spending binge. Click here to view the FOX News interview.
Richmond ping.
BTW, does any one know how many people signed the nostimulus.com petition? It wasn’t obvious from the website.
Thanks for the ping. I’m tied up at work and can’t make it, but wish I could be there to watch.
I might be able to go. We’ll have to see.
To quote from some dead white guys:
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government...
I probably shouldn’t be quoting from the Declaration of Independence, though, because now The CHOSEN ONE, The ANNOINTED will be alerted, and he will issue an executive order to have the national archives begin directly reporting to the White House Chief of staff, and all that silly stuff like the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and so forth will be dumped into the Potomac or burnt, and the many copies thereof will be dismissed as mere creations of right wing conspirators since the original documents can no longer be produced.
I’m thinking it might be time for pitchforks and torches.
Might be time? No I think it is past time....some tar and feathers aren't such a bad idea either.
Yeah. You’re probably right.
After watching “John Adams” on HBO, that tar and feathering thing is pretty nasty.
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