Act, While Congress is in Recess for Two Weeks
The Government Health Care Bill Can Be Defeated
H.R. 3590 In A Nutshell: “Cash for Cloture” Deals Bought Critical Senate Votes
One version of the health care bill passed the House. Another version passed the Senate. Both are horrible. Both are unacceptable. Both would destroy the world’s best health care system. Both over-tax the population and put one-sixth of the U.S. economy under federal control.
Normally, both bills would go to a conference committee, where a compromise bill would be finalized. However, there’s nothing normal about this plan or its railroaded passage.
Pelosi and Reid are skipping the normal conference committee process and are working behind closed doors to make both bills into one image – their own. Representatives and senators outside the “in-crowd” don’t know what’s in the bill and unrest in Congress is escalating.
Republican representatives and senators, as well as some Democrats, have consistently opposed the entire concept of socialized health care and, now, unhappy over-burdened governors are complaining about “sweetheart deals” several hold-out senators got for agreeing to vote YES.
Now, more Democrats are squabbling over the Senate’s “cash for cloture” shenanigans and Republican Schwarzenegger has had enough, too. Although he’s a Republican, Governor Schwarzenegger supported the Democrat health care reform … until senators from Nebraska, Louisiana and other states got huge perks for their senator’s YES vote. Schwarzenegger said, among other things, “Health care reform … has become a trough of bribes, deals and loopholes…. You’ve heard of the bridge to nowhere…. This is health care to nowhere….”
This week, addressing the Downtown Kiwanis Club meeting in Little Rock, Arkansas Democrat Senator Blanche Lincoln expressed dismay that her state got the “short end of the [sweetheart deal] stick”. She said, “The people of Arkansas did not send me to Washington to be a horse trader. They sent me there to work hard to get good policy.” So, she wants the Nelson Medicaid provision dropped from any House/Senate compromise bill.
ACTION – 1. Attend local town hall meetings at every opportunity.
2. Call your (a) U.S. Congressman and (b) Senator Chambliss and Senator Isakson.
3. Call often during this recess – at least once in D.C. and at least once in their local office.
Call toll-free in D.C., 1 877 851-6437 and ask for their office.
Local libraries can give you their local office numbers. Please call NOW and OFTEN.