With the House poised to vote on health care reform (see David Dayen’s recent post HERE), now is the time to take action.
Organizing for America is asking Americans to MAKE A HOUSE CALL.
At the page in the link, you will find the following message:
The House is poised to vote as early as Friday on comprehensive health reform legislation — and we expect it to be very close. But with just a few days before the vote, the insurance industry and their allies are putting extraordinary pressure on every representative to defeat it.
So we need to make sure representatives’ phones are ringing off the hook with constituents supporting reform.
When you get to the page, enter your zip code, and the system will take you to a page with contact information for your Representative’s office. There will also be a form for your name and a field in which you’re supposed to say how the phone call went.
I highly recommend making the call, but emphasizing when you speak to the person at your Rep’s office that you are disappointed in both the President and Congress for not going far enough in advancing real health care reform, which should include at a minimum a robust public health insurance option that would be available to all Americans.
Then, in the field in which you’re supposed to say how it went, write a forceful statement about your unhappiness with President Obama for not fighting to deliver on the change he told us we could believe in.
Imo, President Obama made history last year in more ways than one. Among other things, according to Howard Dean, more citizens under 35 years old voted in last year’s presidential election than did citizens over 65 years old, and they voted for Barack Obama.
Barack Obama won the votes of young people by convincing them that things could be different.
So he’s not only throwing away once-in-a-generation opportunities to achieve great things.
If he doesn’t start acting like a true leader, he’s also going to totally turn off yet another generation of voters.
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Duh. Isn’t that the objective? America has the lowest turn out in the world of any established “democracy” and is low even by the standards of third world democracies. That doesn’t happen by chance.
Ther are many people smart enough to know voting really does little good, so why waste their time.
Do not be fooled by the likes of real American assholes into believing that your voice and your vote do not matter.
Democratic leaders are definitely hearing us and are feeling pressure from their constituents and from Democrats and Progressives all over the country who call their offices and write them letters.
A public health insurance option was saved from oblivion because of the hundreds of thousands of phone calls we made and because of the hundreds of thousands of letters we sent and because of the many ads that FDL Action and others ran in Arkansas, Montana, Maine, and all across the country, for just one example.
And anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to fool you into remaining silent because they’re afraid of you and are trying to rob you of your voice.
Those ads ran because people like us – people who give money to FDL Action and others, make phone calls, and write letters to our representatives – contributed to make sure that they’d run and would continue to run until we are heard.
So, do not stop!
Click on the link above and MAKE THE HOUSE CALL!
Write President Obama via the contact page at the White House’s website, write Speaker Pelosi via the contact page at http://www.speaker.gov, write Leader Reid via the contact page at his website, write your Senators and representative in the House.
Look for their phone numbers at the contact pages and give them a call.