Please call the WH, Nancy Pelosi , Steny Hoyer , Clyburn and Harry Reid.
We need HCR . It's on life support right now barely bleating its last gasps to its last breath. It needs to be resuscitated. Even as the polls were closing in MA, frickin Anthony Weiner declared it dead. It has become a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts. So can we also call and tell Weiner to leave his motor-mouth behind because yeah 40000 people who die each year still want HCR?
Politely tell them that we want, we need and we voted you to get a HCR bill through.
Either
a) Put the senate bill through and do the fixes through reconciliation
b) Start afresh with the fixes after Sen Naked Scottie is seated , but use reconciliation.
But we want HCR. Yesterday's vote was not a referendum on whether to kill HCR or not. Sure Most MA voters are confused and sent a kill-the-bill-guy to DC but most Americans want HCR.
SO DO NOT KILL THE BILL.
DO NOT KILL THE BILL.
DO NOT KILL THE BILL.
We want HCR. We have fought and waited our asses off for this and we are not about to let it go for another generation.
Call the WH at 202-456-1111
CALL Speaker Nancy Pelosi at (202) 225-4965 and local office at (415)556-4862
CALL House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer at (202) 225-3130
CALL House Majority Whip James Clyburn at (202) 226-3210
CALL Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid at
Phone: 202-224-3542 / Fax: 202-224-7327
Here's the directory to call the members of the house.
Again call Weiner and tell him to stop hashing out the self-fulfilling prophecies.
In other news, people at FDL when last heard were distributing candy and so was AHIP and the teabagging lot./snark
Let's not let the teabaggers win this again. HCR is lost for a generation. We were so close to the finish line and we can't give up on this most important issue of our lifetime and our generation.
Update-All we need is this
Steps should be
1. House passes the Senate bill as is.
2. Senate uses reconciliation to make germane changes.
3. House passes that bill.
4. President signs into law.
h/t conspiracy