What are Harry Reid and the US Senate thinking? Delay of the Senate vote is a big disappointment, and significantly risking NOT getting this crucial job done at all. Democratic leaders need to STAND UP, at least on this issue.
If we can't do this now, then our democracy really has been bought and/or bullied by corporate America and the mean-spirited, small-minded, not-very-bright Republican base.
I have no job and no money (except limited SS funds for rent and health insurance!). I cannot even afford two of my non-generic prescriptions, and will be visiting a food bank next week. Thus, I cannot afford contributions or memberships in advocacy groups that care about ME (e.g., Common Cause, Move On, Obama's sites, etc.), as much as I would like to do so.
But I just printed out a call list from this Obama site (http://my.barackobama.com/page/community), and I will will be calling every name on it by the 8/6 deadline. And I have emailed Common Cause and Move On, entreating them to give us po' folks some can-do-from-home tasks to help. And I have emailed a list of legislators, urging them to help get cost-contained health-care reform (WITH a real public option) passed in both houses by August, or now at least by December; see "extended blog" below for a list based on one from Kaiser's Capital Hill Watch at http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=57496 .
We have to do something. Please join me!
Barbara Boxer (D-CA) http://boxer.senate.gov/
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) http://feinstein.senate.gov/
John Campbell (R-CA) http://campbell.ho+use.gov/
Important re: Health Care ReformHouse
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) http://speaker.gov/contact/comment_email
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) http://www.house.gov/waxman 202) 225-3976
House Ways and Means Committee Chair Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) http://www.rangel.house.gov/
House Education and Labor Committee Chair George Miller (D-Calif.) http://georgemiller.house.gov/
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV ) http://reid.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm
Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-Mont.) http://baucus.senate.gov/
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chair Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) http://kennedy.senate.gov/
Senate Budget Committee Chair Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) http://conrad.senate.gov/
Senator Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) http://gregg.senate.gov/
Senate Finance Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) http://grassley.senate.gov/
Senate HELP Committee ranking member Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) http://enzi.senate.gov/
Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) http://dodd.senate.gov/
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) http://hatch.senate.gov/
Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) http://rockefeller.senate.gov/
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