As much fun as it might be to watch people you don’t like losing their shit, Democrats still have to pass this bill. If you do nothing else this week get on the bloody phone. These are Democrats we are talking about, people. Gloat later.
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jack-of-all-thumbs
Tomorrow I WILL be making calls to Representatives Kissell and Etheridge here in NC. One is my Congressman and one is just over the border. Both have cashed our checks. Time to grow a pair….
mr. whipple
Yes. I hope Nancy makes sure she ties their shoes, have their nametags on and lunch money the day of the vote.
Robin G
Called Oberstar’s office today and promised that if he voted yes and got in trouble in the fall, I’d drive my ass to Duluth every weekend to knock doors and help get him reelected. Not sure it made a difference, but can’t hurt.
rmp
As a DFH is it wrong for me to want to tell the FDL crowd to shut the $#$% up?
NobodySpecial
@rmp:
Not at all, because they’ll never hear you over the voices in their heads.
rmp
Hey Robin G, where in MN are you from?
flounder
A day after I sent her Silly Putty, my Rep., Ann Kirkpatrick, announced she is going to vote for the bill.
MikeJ
Can DennisG and Mistermix get listed under the contact header on the right?
ellaesther
You make an excellent point….
Anya
I will call my Rep Nadler once I get back from Toronto. I am ashamed to admit that I do not know where he stands on this. I am assuming that he is on the yes camp.
Max
Called Barbara Lee. The staffer said she hasn’t announced a position but wanted to her from her constituents. I said vote yes yes yes. I can’t imagine she won’t vote for it. But I’m an Obot so what do I know.
BTW. Idol is doing Stones songs tonight and it makes me want to kill myself.
PeakVT
I count 26 posts on Tuesday in my BJ feed. Is that a record?
MJ
I called my Congressman, Ed. Towns, several times today (NY-10/ Brooklyn, NY). I couldn’t get through because the lines were busy. I’ll try again tomorrow.
Mike Kay
Don’t let up on the throttle
Remember people, the Firebaggers are desperate, and will be doing everything they can think of to Kill the Bill.
Do it for the children.
Do it for the working moms.
Do it for Rahm!
Do it so you can laugh your ass off after a good cry and a glass of wine after the vote on Saturday night!
rmp
Mike Kay, don’t know how to break this to you but I’m not waiting until Saturday for a glass of wine.
Lolis
@Mike Kay:
Is the vote officially Saturday night?
Mike Kay
@Lolis: as of this moment it’s scheduled for saturday night, I hope they ring the bells at National Cathedral all night long.
Mike Kay
I heard from an inside source, Kucinich was taking a shower on Air Force One, when Rahm walked in naked and started poking him with his finger.
MikeJ
@Mike Kay: That wasn’t a finger, Rahm had it shot off.
J. Michael Neal
@Mike Kay: Did Kucinich change his position because he wanted Rahm to stop poking him, or because he wanted Rahm to start poking him?
General Egali Tarian Stuck
@Max:
The Stones doing Stones songs has the same effect on me.
PS – see if this gets a rise out of DougJ. Usually does if he’s on the grid.
General Egali Tarian Stuck
@PeakVT: Earlier today i commented on a thread, left for a few hours and returned with it below the fold. Was going to say something but decided it was some sort of Karma to be left alone.
rob!
I’ve called my rep, John Adler (D-NJ), several times to tell him I WANT HIM TO VOTE FOR THE BILL.
When I first started calling, they told me he wasn’t going to. When I called him last Friday, they told me he still hasn’t decided, so I guess that’s progress. I told them that if he does vote against it, NOTHING HE CAN DO AFTER THAT will make up for it.
If he doesn’t vote for it, I’m calling them back on Monday to tell them that I WILL NOT BE VOTING FOR ADLER AGAIN, PERIOD.
AnotherBruce
@rmp:
No, as much as I think that Mike Kay is generally an asshole, I don’t think he’s wrong about this crowd this time.
Which hurts like hell because I’ve generally admired Jane. She’s tougher than nails and has fought off bouts of cancer a couple of times. But seriously, with the Supreme Asshole Court about to buy off our entire government, I don’t think that we have the luxury to fail on this one.
AnotherBruce
The Stones doing Stones songs has the same effect on me.
I don’t know about DougJ, but fuck you very much as I listen to Exile on Main Street.
General Egali Tarian Stuck
@AnotherBruce: sorry to not hear that, and you are very welcome.
Linda Featheringill
Never get between a man and his Stones.
But seriously, folks . . . . Maybe pressuring Dennis did some good, although I suspect that Barack Obama has more political weight than I do.
This whole HCR effort has had a strange, now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t aspect to it. I am sure a proponent of one of the Eastern religions could draw a philosophical lesson from it but my brain doesn’t have a firm grip on it yet.
taylormattd
Sadly, the so-called “progressive” founder Firedoglake is literally working with Tea Baggers to kill the bill and make sure 30 million americans are prevented from getting health care coverage:
http://washingtonindependent.com/79406/tea-partiers-working-with-firedoglake-on-hcr-whip-count
Mike Kay
@AnotherBruce:
Let’s dance!
Put on ya red shoes and dance with me!
Let’s sway under the moonlight, this serious moonlight.
sfinny
I called the office of my rep (John Hall, NY 19) last week and gave my ‘pass the bill’ request. Per usual the guy I had on the line was giving the ‘we will wait till we have an actual bill before we make a decision’ line. But he seemed appreciative of the Pass the Bill message. This is, however, an R+1 or 2 area, so I will call them again tomorrow. It is against my nature to be the squeaky wheel, but I’m always polite about my comments. Maybe that outweighs the loud tea partiers, maybe not.
Mike Kay
@taylormattd:
she reminds me of the Alec Guiness character in “Bridge on the River Kwai” – she’s lost all perspective and is now working with the Japanese to build a proper military supply bridge.
AnotherBruce
@taylormattd: I trust this report about as much as I trust a brown acid trip taken by a sphyllitic nun.
AnotherBruce
@Mike Kay: Ya betcha sweetie! Smootch!
Krissed Off
Don’t dream too much.
The Main Gauche of Mild Reason
In light of this whole FDL/Firebagger debacle, I hereby nominate a new BJ tag which I think is uniquely appropriate:
“Jane Hamshers of the Left” :-P
Do I have any seconds?
Xenos
@AnotherBruce:
Think of this health care bill as the equivalent of the Nixon bill that Teddy Kennedy rejected back in the 70s. If we lefties get stomped for a couple decades by the corporate media complex we are going to be damn glad for having taken the compromise this time around.
Boney Baloney
Speaking of Top Ten Lists of half-hearted post-election handjobs… Actually, why NOT stick Bernie Madoff into whatever hole he’ll fill? If I understand the mechanics of civil rights and Great Society legislation correctly, in four years Madoff will disappear like magic and a greatly superior candidate will sort of slide into his position, twirling, twirling ever upward.
I mean, Madoff sucks the peanuts out of a dead elephant’s rectum, but… can we take the risk that a whole generation might pass without a better candidate coming along? And when I say “candidate” I really mean “mechanically spread buttcheeks for the Treatment Without Cure Complex, as aided and abetted by Congressional vermin.”
Quick, let’s crap our pants in fear! Ring the unembarrassed bells in favor of eating dookie sandwiches! And burn the heretics while you’re about it!
At least Carter only suggested wearing sweaters in winter, and didn’t recommend cranking up the furnace and wearing wife-beaters in the name of bipartisanship (subject to later negotiation). Dem White House, Dem Senate, Dem House. Until the next election, that is, and you’d best believe it. It’ll never be better than this, and good luck explaining to Obama voters why they should get up off the couch in 2012.
jibeaux
@jack-of-all-thumbs:
Bless you.
Speaking for myself only, it would have been hard to give to Kissell, but I’m proud of you.
gbear
I’ll give Betty McCollum’s office a call today. I’ve been calling about once a week and never have any trouble getting through. She’s most certainly a ‘yes’ vote, but the last couple calls I’ve been asking that she go over to give Oberstar a kick in the butt. Maybe today I’ll call Oberstar’s office and see if they listen to anyone outside the district.
TBogg’s got a post up this morning asking everyone to ‘chill the fuck out’.
@Boney Baloney: I hear the decaff isn’t half bad this morning…
JenJen
Rep. Driehaus’ staff insisted he has not made up his mind yet, when I called on Monday, although FDL’s whip lists him as a definite “no.”
Just today, I’ve noticed a burst of ads by Catholics United playing locally, urging Driehaus to vote yes.
Boney Baloney
@gbear: I need caffeine to wash down the dookie sandwich. Besides, the “Please, sir, can I have some more” Breakfast Special is such a bargain, who can pass it up?
(Or keep it down, but we’ll fix that in midnight rewrite. History is written by the gnomes who actually set the 1,000-page bill in type. Not that laws have ever, ever been tinkered with after the final vote but before the official publication; that’s crazy conspiracy talk.)