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President Obama finally made it official yesterday: he wants
Congress to ignore Senate rules - and the American people - and use a
parliamentary trick called "reconciliation" to pass his
health care takeover legislation. Fortunately, there's a
catch: before the Senate can use reconciliation to force
through Obama's tweaks, the House
would have to pass the Senate health care bill. And we must
stop them.
In his remarks the president demanded that Congress
cave in and vote "in the next few weeks."
The key vote will now occur in the House of Representatives - perhaps
within 10 to 12 days - and we have to win it. That's because
it's impossible for the Senate to make changes via reconciliation until
after
the Senate bill has passed the House. Of course, once the Senate
bill passes the House, President Obama will sign it and it will become
the law of the land - whether or not the reconciliation trick makes
some changes around the edges.
Speaker Pelosi will use every trick in the book to try and find the
216 votes she will need to ram through the health care
bill passed "pre-Scott Brown" with 60 votes in the Senate
back in December. This will be the key vote.
You remember the Senate bill... 2,700 pages of big government waste,
fraud and abuse... corrupt back-room deals including
the "Cornhusker Kickoff" to buy Ben Nelson's vote,
the $300 million "Louisiana Purchase" to buy
Senator Landrieu's vote... $1 trillion in new spending that will
run up the deficit... tens of thousands of new government
bureaucrats and dozens of new federal agencies... government
boards to decide what medical treatments will be allowed and for
which citizens based on the government's view of "quality of
life"... a vast new entitlement when current entitlements
like Medicare and Social Security are already headed for
bankruptcy. I could go on but you get the picture.
Democrats in the House will try to justify their votes for the
disastrous Senate bill based on vague promises that it will be
"fixed" later. But no changes could fix this disastrous
bill. If the Senate bill passes the House, a Washington takeover
of health care will be a certainty.
That means in just the next few days, we've got to make sure our
individual members of the House of Representatives feel the
maximum heat from grassroots activists like you and me.
You may think, "My member is a firm NO vote, so it's a waste of
time" or the opposite, "My member of Congress is a YES vote
so why call or email?" Here's why I'm asking you to call and
email them anyway: we need to show the national outrage over this
latest attempt to ram this through, and that means burying Congress,
all of Congress, with personal calls and emails from Americans.
I'm asking you to take 3 steps.
1. Call and email your member of Congress in the next 24
hours. CLICK
HERE to email your member, and CLICK
HERE to call your member; - based on your zip code we can provide the
right information for your representative. Tell them to vote NO
on the corrupt, big government Senate health care takeover bill and
tell them Americans do not want this parliamentary trick called
"reconciliation."
2. Forward this email to your friends, family, co-workers, and
fellow activists across the nation asking them to do the same
thing. They
may not know how much the House vote matters. Your
friends and family need to hear from someone they know and trust that
now is a crucial time on health care and protecting our freedoms.
3. Commit to being a part of the "Honk Against the
Health Care Takeover" event on March 16. Here's how it will
work. On March 16 at 12 noon your time, we're asking you to drive
to your nearest congressional district office CLICK
HERE FOR THE OFFICE NEAREST YOU and drive around the office for at
least 15 minutes occasionally honking your horn. Our goal is to
have Americans across the nation telling the politicians to keep their
hands off our health care through this "Honk Against the Health
Care Takeover" effort.
CLICK
HERE to let us know you'll join the effort and please recruit your
friends. To show people why you’re honking, when you register
we’ll send you a "Honk Against the Health Care Takeover"
bumper sticker. You’ll also be able to download and print a sign for
your car window on our website.
Yesterday, the president actually said the nation is "waiting
for [Washington] to act" on the health care issue. This is
arrogance and political posturing at its worst. Like us, the
president knows the truth. Every reputable public opinion poll
for months has clear majorities of the American people saying
"NO" to the health care "reform" coming out of
Washington, D.C.
Now is the time to finish the job of protecting this most personal
freedom by stopping the Democrats' Washington takeover of our
health care in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Tim Phillips
P.S.: I know you've done so much already on health care, and
that's one key reason we've won till now. But we've got to defeat
them again in order to save our health care freedoms and stop the
biggest new government entitlement in over a generation. CLICK
HERE to join our "Honk Against the Health Care Takeover"
effort.
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