Posted on 07/21/2009 12:17:25 PM PDT by Grumpybutt
Just got this in my inbox:
Last week, Republican Senator Jim DeMint made it pretty clear why the opponents of health care reform are fighting so hard. As he told a special interest attack group, "If we're able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him." Here's how the President responded:
Think about that. This isn't about me. This isn't about politics. This is about a health care system that is breaking America's families, breaking America's businesses and breaking America's economy. And we can't afford the politics of delay and defeat when it comes to health care. Not this time, not now. There are too many lives and livelihoods at stake.
With Congress only days away from finalizing their plans for reform, it's time to stand up with the President and fight back against this disastrous brand of old-style politics. So we need as many people as possible to publicly support the President's principles for health care reform and call on Congress to act.
Before the first full votes in Congress, we'll publish the signatures in newspaper ads across the nation, to make sure your voice is heard.
Watch President Obama's full response, then add your name in support of reform. Or if you've already signed, please forward this message to every one of your friends and neighbors so they can join you.
The President is more dedicated than ever to passing health care reform that satisfies the three requirements he's been talking about for months: Health care reform must reduce costs, guarantee choice -- including the choice of a strong public insurance option -- and ensure all Americans have quality, affordable health care.
If we do not reform our broken health care system this year, we will only shackle future generations with spiraling costs and deteriorating care. The cost of inaction is simply more than this country can afford.
But the special interests who profit from the status quo won't go down without a fight. The ads, the smears, and the attacks -- targeting both President Obama and members of Congress who support reform -- will only get worse. So it's crucial that we show huge backing before Congress finalizes their plans this month.
Stand with President Obama on health care reform:
http://my.barackobama.com/hcdeclare
Thanks for standing up for change.
Thanks,
Mitch
Mitch Stewart Director Organizing for America
Yu ought to e-mail Mitch and remind him that the President and Democrats that they can ram anything they like through to law. They have a super majority and there is NOTHING any Republican can do. No more “evil Republican” smoke screens.
O Bomb O
Dear Mitch, Congresspeople, Federal Employees and White Housers:
If this bill is such a wonderful reform, why are you all not participating in its coverage and provisions? Why are you exempt?
We owe it to DeMint to support him in this fight. Please call or email him and pledge your support. As Rush said, this fight is up to the American people. We have the most to lose; like our very lives. The ghouls in DC exempted themselves from Hussein’s DeathCare.
>This is about a health care system that is breaking America’s families, breaking America’s businesses and breaking America’s economy.
I thought GOVERNMENT, federal especially, was the one “breaking America’s families, breaking America’s businesses and breaking America’s economy.”
BS... two words: "we won".
Hey, don't lump me in with this nonsense. I think it's horrible legislation that needs to DIE.
I don’t suppose it ever occured to Obama that people might oppose him and his policies, in some small measure, not because they’re playing around, but because they disagree with said policies. Because as dearly as he holds them, they are anathematic to others.
What is it about these guys that they thinl only the other guy is partisan? It’s like a pair of plumbers arguing over how to unclog a drain, and one of them says, “Stop playing plumbing; just do it my way!” There’s nothing to say the other guy has to listen, any more than the first guy listened to him. Except convenience, but it would be most inconvenient not to fix the drain.
I received this email yesterday.........
From the Desk of:
Steve Elliott, President, Grassfire.org Alliance
We have learned that crucial votes on socialized health care
could take place in a key House committee in the next 48
hours — most likely by Wednesday of this week.
And the breaking news is that one Democratic Congressman
on this committee — Rep. Mike Ross — thinks he has the
votes to “stop” Obama’s plan to socialize our healthcare system!
That’s why I have directed our team to deliver petitions
to this Committee on Wednesday.
Right now we have over 180,000 signers on our petition opposing
ObamaCare and socialized medicine. We want to deliver over
200,000 petitions.
Please go here right now to sign the petition and be
included in this delivery to the House Energy and
Commerce committee:
http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?u=20348&RID=21230670
“What is it about these guys that they think only the other guy is partisan?”
This question was asked tongue in cheek, of course. I realize that either Obama’s willfully ignorant, or he knows this whole non-partisan thing is a pose. The politics of “I’m above politics.”
Non-partisan rhetoric works sometimes, especially during emergencies, such as the build-up to war. Most of the time, the masses ignore it, perceiving bickering between parties as what it is: partisan bickering.
If you liberals are so concerned about the plight of us underlings..how come you Libs killed Bush's efforts to reform Social Security? That wasn’t about politics, was it? FDR's legacy program...no, couldn't be! I still remember all the DemocRATS standing and clapping during Bush's State of the Union speech when he mentioned that his efforts failed on that program mainly due to those all caring folks that were clapping and glad handing.
“This isn’t about me.”
B.O., oops, I mean B.S. —
What about all the campaining against (evil) Bush?
It was all about him, then.
Isn’t “Organizing for America” an offshoot of ACORN?
Excellent point.
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