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In which I tell you to get off your asses and do something (or sit on your asses and send money, whichever)
OK, so I don’t normally push our beloved readers to actually do stuff beyond bitching on the Internets, but the health care battle is entering into its “Send lawyers, guns and money!” stage and pro-reform groups such as Health Care for America Now could really use your help in ratcheting up pressure on lawmakers to pass a damn health reform bill. Please consider giving them money or calling your Congressman, particularly if you live in a district represented by one of those pesky Blue Dogs.
This is a battle that we can win, peeps. Every little bit helps. Thanks :-)
Jennifer said,
July 20, 2009 at 19:35
Thanks for the shout-out, Brad. I’ve been doing some work for HCAN (through ACORN) for the past 4 months, signing up small businesses owners in support of a public health insurance option. Over 50 so far! But this is definitely cruch time – this week I won’t be seeking to sign up anyone new, only to get the ones already signed up to make calls. Every call helps.
Kathleen in Oakland said,
July 20, 2009 at 19:56
fellow Californians, include yourselves in this; see exhibit A: DiFi
Brad said,
July 20, 2009 at 19:58
Kathleen — can you explain to me what the hell is wrong with DiFi?
Kathleen in Oakland said,
July 20, 2009 at 20:01
IMHO – she’s the perfect example of someone totally corrupted by/bought into the system. She’s been in politics for freaking decades. Plus her husband is a super rich business guy.
God I loathe her.
PeeJ said,
July 20, 2009 at 20:11
Kathleen — can you explain to me what the hell is wrong with DiFi?
Dianne Feinstein really, really neeeds to get laid.
mmy said,
July 20, 2009 at 20:25
Off topic, but I’d like to see this whackjob get SadlyNotted (SadlyKnotted? SadlyNoted? Whatever):
Fox Analyst wants Taliban to Kill US Soldier
King Kot of the Kuba Kingdom said,
July 20, 2009 at 20:29
Fox Analyst wants Taliban to Kill US Soldier
I saw this last night. it’s our old freind Ralph “Exterminate The Brutes” Peters, telling the Taliban it’s okay to kill the soldier they captured ’cause he abandoned his platoon or some such.
Oddly I don’t think anyone is going to call for Congress to censure him for it, though.
noen said,
July 20, 2009 at 20:38
My reps are Keith Ellison, Amy Klobachar and Al Franken. I know how they’re going to vote.
Marion in Savannah said,
July 20, 2009 at 20:43
Oh, noen, I’m sooooo jealous… I’ve got John Barrow, Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss. I know how they’re going to vote too….
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
July 20, 2009 at 20:52
I wish I could send money, Brad.
My congresscritters are Kohl, Feingold and Gwen Moore, winners all. I have already called all three on this issue though.
D.N. Nation said,
July 20, 2009 at 20:56
John Lewis, Isakson, and Chambliss here. One out of three ain’t bad.
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
July 20, 2009 at 20:58
Now I wish I hadn’t sent that money to Whitey on the Moon.
Happy Moon Landing Anniversary!
My Rep is Eliot Engel, an all-round good guy. I actually met him in a local bar, during a speaking engagement by Gerry Adams.
Knights in White Satin said,
July 20, 2009 at 21:00
I live in Nevada, so I’m hopeless about my Senator & Reps. Though I have called & emailed. Reid sometimes sends a generic reply because I gave $50 last election. (Scowl- money better spent on bird seed or jelly bellies)
However, I’ve given money to various “Blue” agencies. ‘Specially the ones that run ads.
Xecky Gilchrist said,
July 20, 2009 at 21:01
My congresscritter is a Blue Dog. What would you all recommend I say to whoever answers the phone at his place? I’d send money but am broke broke broke.
Xecky Gilchrist said,
July 20, 2009 at 21:04
…aha, I see the call link has stuff for me to say. Nemmine.
AlanSmithee said,
July 20, 2009 at 21:05
Ah, pwogwessive “activism.” Send your money in to support God-Emperor Obama’s latest corporate giveaway! Yeah, give D-AL-C Franken (D-AIPAC) a call. This time, fer sure!
N.C. said,
July 20, 2009 at 21:13
Yeah, I would disavow all involvement with authoring that comment, too. Good move.
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
July 20, 2009 at 21:18
What would you all recommend I say to whoever answers the phone at his place?
I think you should say, “I’m Xecky Gilchrist, and I’m your primary challenger. Now what’s all this crud about no movie tonight?”
Xecky Gilchrist said,
July 20, 2009 at 21:20
I think you should say, “I’m Xecky Gilchrist, and I’m your primary challenger. Now what’s all this crud about no movie tonight?”
Done!
Only I said other stuff. I wish I’d read your comment first.
King Kot of the Kuba Kingdom said,
July 20, 2009 at 21:20
God-Emperor Obama
So I see we’ve already forgotten how Dubya was Lincoln and Roosevelt and Jesus H. Reagan all rolled into one shitting gold bricks and pissing rainbows, bringing liberation and peace to all the children of the world with his manly padded war crotch.
No, see, we’re the ones who’re obsessed with our leader’s divine nature. The last eight years never happened.
Djur said,
July 20, 2009 at 21:23
King Kot: AlanSmithee is a lefty who enjoys mau-mauing the insufficiently pure, so Bush-worship is irrelevant to him.
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
July 20, 2009 at 21:27
Only I said other stuff. I wish I’d read your comment first.
Yikes, now I may have to send you a check too!
Xecky Gilchrist said,
July 20, 2009 at 21:38
Yikes, now I may have to send you a check too!
No charge.
I made sure to say, for the sake of Alan Smithee and his pals, that we retain the option to buy private insurance.
Only I said it “Just so the rank and file Republicans don’t poop their pants, make it so people can still choose to be bankrupted by completely preventable diseases and subsequently throw such a freaker that they hose down a Unitarian church with automatic weapons fire, or something even more stupid.”
BTW, Was it progressive activism of “activism” that got God-emperor Obama elected in the first place?
N__B said,
July 20, 2009 at 21:39
My congresscritter is a Blue Dog. What would you all recommend I say to whoever answers the phone at his place? I’d send money but am broke broke broke.
Hello…Clarice….
Djur said,
July 20, 2009 at 21:40
I have to say, what about “pwogwessive”, “corporate giveaway”, “D-Al-C Franken (D-AIPAC)”, and a blog called “Dirty Greenie Hippie” screams “right-winger” to you folks?
Xecky Gilchrist said,
July 20, 2009 at 21:41
I have to say, what about “pwogwessive”, “corporate giveaway”, “D-Al-C Franken (D-AIPAC)”, and a blog called “Dirty Greenie Hippie” screams “right-winger” to you folks?
Oh, oops.
Just the raw antagonism, really.
Plus Republicans are complaining about a lot of stuff these days that they would have made compulsory a few years ago, so it gets hard to tell.
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
July 20, 2009 at 21:43
No charge.
Uh… Xecky… that check would be for your campaign war chest.
Run, Xecky, run!
Xecky Gilchrist said,
July 20, 2009 at 21:47
Run, Xecky, run!
I would, only my full name would never fit on a ballot.
Mo's Bike Shop said,
July 20, 2009 at 21:50
OT, but have the management noticed all the “Answers” subdomains that are cropping up for your site? They’re selling credit report crap.
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&num=100&q=site%3Aanswers.sadlyno.com
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
July 20, 2009 at 22:01
I would, only my full name would never fit on a ballot.
That never stopped Huitzilopochtli from running for patron god of Tenochtitlan!
King Kot of the Kuba Kingdom said,
July 20, 2009 at 22:09
I have to say, what about “pwogwessive”, “corporate giveaway”, “D-Al-C Franken (D-AIPAC)”, and a blog called “Dirty Greenie Hippie” screams “right-winger” to you folks?
Just a sense of irony, which now that I think about it isn’t wingnutty at all but it’s been a long day already so bleaugh to him regardless and he can go sniffing for insufficent lefty-purity somewhere else ’cause to paraphrase Emma if I can’t snark I don’t want to be part of your revolution and anyway “hippie” might represent one of the gLibertarian dillweeds who’ve listened to too much Alex Jones and think the gummint should be spying, just not on them ’cause white people smoking pot is liberating and enlightening and The Man needs to get offa our backs and onto the backs of brown people who use politically incorrect drugs and talk about socialism (don’t tell me you haven’t see ‘em) like the guy who started Whole Earth Review and now is all wingnutty and stuff and all for freedom and liberty as long as it’s for dopesmoking white guys and hemp revolution and computers for the masses as long as the masses means white dope smoking ex-hippie males like him and all that bullshit.
PeeJ said,
July 20, 2009 at 22:09
Our problem here in blue OR is an odd one. Sen. Ron Wyden is against the reform bill(s) – possiblky because they’re far too wimpy. His position, is “that’s not reform, that’s rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.” The wikli for Wyden’s bill, the Healthy Americans Act, is here.
He may be beating the grass, to startle the snakes but it has me worried that he’d vote against, on principle, an “okay” bill.
I told his office that his chance of making HAA the law is probably close to nil and that we have to have _something_. Don’t screw the pooch, Ronnie.
Spengler Dampniche said,
July 20, 2009 at 22:13
End the foreskin holocaust now! Donate.
Rusty Shackleford said,
July 20, 2009 at 22:16
I already sent all my money to Chris Muir.
PeeJ said,
July 20, 2009 at 22:31
I donated my foreskin long ago.
dcs said,
July 20, 2009 at 22:32
I spoke to US Rep. Jim McGovern over the weekend and he says he doesn’t get any pro-reform calls about health care. Just negative calls from people saying the taxes and/or mandates will destroy small business. Jim is a progressive Democrat, he’ll vote for the bill. But if he doesn’t get more calls and letters, he will might keep his head down rather than come out swinging. Even the good guys need a ton of pressure to do the right thing – advocate for a strong public option and vote for it when the time comes.
tigrismus said,
July 20, 2009 at 22:35
I think you should say, “I’m Xecky Gilchrist, and I’m your primary challenger. Now what’s all this crud about no movie tonight?”
And make sure you put the marbles in his overhead so they’ll roll around and keep him awake all night!
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
July 20, 2009 at 22:35
he says he doesn’t get any pro-reform calls about health care.
I find this hard to believe. I wonder if his staff is loaded with Blue Dog types…
I donated my foreskin long ago.
I missed the local foreskin drive, but I regularly give blood.
PeeJ said,
July 20, 2009 at 22:36
Circumcision is theft!
RED PATRIOT LIBERTY PORKINS JR said,
July 20, 2009 at 22:49
LIBERALS DONT YOU MAKE ME GET CIRCUMSCRIBED. THE GOVERNMENT OUGHT TO PROTECT AMERICANS RIGHT TO LIFE, LIBERTY, AND SMEGMA
Smut Clyde said,
July 21, 2009 at 0:08
I regularly give blood.
Dare I ask whose?
Djur said,
July 21, 2009 at 0:08
Mo’s Bike Shop: Not only do they know about them, but they link them in the sidenav. Look at the very bottom, under “Secrets”. Been there for yeeears.
AlanSmithee said,
July 21, 2009 at 0:13
Shorter King Kot:
STFU ya dirty fucking hippies and send your checks in now! We need to help the DLC fuck the poor over again!
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
July 21, 2009 at 0:17
You dast! Have you tried the morcilla in Madrid, Smut?
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
July 21, 2009 at 0:42
same old story. Because we can’t make everything JUST PERFECT right now immediate like, stop trying to make anything better….
what is the old saying? “The perfect is the enemy of the Good”
Matt T. said,
July 21, 2009 at 1:33
Oh, noen, I’m sooooo jealous… I’ve got John Barrow, Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss. I know how they’re going to vote too….
John Lewis, Isakson, and Chambliss here. One out of three ain’t bad.
I live in Athens, so Paul Broun speaks for me in the halls of Congress. Honestly, I think he’s kept around because the U.S. House needs at least one obnoxious whackjob from Georgia in the mix.
I have to say, what about “pwogwessive”, “corporate giveaway”, “D-Al-C Franken (D-AIPAC)”, and a blog called “Dirty Greenie Hippie” screams “right-winger” to you folks?
What is it about calling anyone “God-Emperor” makes that person worth paying attention to? It’s a tell, like someone who claims climate scientists are making up global warming for that sweet, sweet grant money.
AlanSmithee said,
July 21, 2009 at 3:46
Because, as all of us fauxgressives know, everyone who disagrees with us is a rightwing freeper repububthugrapelican in the pay of Karl Rove! It’s true! I read it on DKOS!
Matt T. said,
July 21, 2009 at 4:46
I never said you were a right-winger. Just a jackass not worth paying attention to, regardless of his/her political ideology. I used to be in the Greens, I know your numbers are legion.
Mo's Bike Shop said,
July 21, 2009 at 4:58
Smut Clyde said,
July 21, 2009 at 7:30
Have you tried the morcilla in Madrid
Sadly, not. It hasn’t turned up on the tapas menu at the Cerveceria Magister where I’ve been bevvying for the last couple of evenings.
I’ll look around today before continuing to Lisbon in the evening.
Substance McGravitas said,
July 21, 2009 at 7:35
Lisbians: hotter or hottest?
Smut Clyde said,
July 21, 2009 at 9:15
Zurbaran’s paintings contain many VEILED PENIS references.
stryx said,
July 21, 2009 at 10:26
Smut, beware of“floundering in an emulsion of ennui and alcohol.”
I understand the trout fishing was quite good there.
AlanSmithee said,
July 21, 2009 at 21:10
I know your numbers are legion.
No, my name is Legion. Jim Legion, Apt #665.