CallToAction:Blue Dogs Compromise, But The Fight Isn’t Over

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– July 29, 2009Posted in: CallToAction Alerts, Motivation

Health Care Reform Update

Early this afternoon, it became apparent that the Blue Dog Democrats on the Energy & Commerce Committee had reached a compromise that will allow them to reconvene the committee and vote to send the Health Care Reform Bill to the full House for consideration. However, while some $100 Billion in cuts were made to the total cost of the bill and small businesses with payrolls less than $500,000 are now exempt from paying for govenment health care, the big news is that the final vote in the House of Representatives will not take place until AFTER the August Recess. This is actually a huge win for Conservatives in a several different ways.

  • First, with the full month of August to review and audit the Health Care Reform bill, opponents (ie: Tea Party Members!) will have a lot more time to fight this bill.
  • Second, usually Reprentatives head back to their Districts during the recess and there will be opportunities to confront them in person for their support or opposition of this bill.
  • Third, a lot can happen in 30 days and while we shouldn’t count on any mis-steps from the White House we are certainly not going to look a gift horse in the mouth.
  • Fourth, it appears that the House Of Representatives will re-convene the same week in September that the 9-12 March On Washington will take place. That event will put a lot of conservative constitutents in Washington D.C. at the same time as the Legislators and potentially could make the 9-12 March even more significant and the fight on the House Floor more interesting.

Let’s be honest here. In my humble opinion, I don’t think anyone really believed that the Blue Dogs could or would stop this bill in Henry Waxman’s committee permanently. The best that we could hope for was that they could slow down this train wreck and give everyone some breathing room to absorb and digest the biggest take-over of the U.S. economy we have ever seen. The bottom line is that Blue Dogs are still Democrats and when Democrats negotiate with Democrats there will always be some compromise because Blue Dogs were not fighting to KILL the bill, they were fighting to have some impact on the final legislation.

So What Do We Do Now

Well, the fight is just beginning. In the coming weeks, MeridianTeaParty.com and all Tea Party/9-12 Organizations will continue to try to provide the most accurate information and specific action alerts to help everyone focus their efforts in the same direction. In fact, here are just 10 things we can start doing right now:

  1. Educate yourself on what’s really in the Health Care Reform Bill. There’s a lot of bad information floating around on the Internet and in emails. Arm yourself with the facts and then start dialing numbers and sending emails.
  2. Go to this link and click on the video link listed there. This is simply the best motivational and instructional video out there and it explains in no uncertain terms exactly the kind of fight we are now in.
  3. Go to this link and start calling all of the Blue Dog Democrats and Senators in swing states and remind them who they work for and why you oppose this bill.
  4. Contact your friends and relatives in every state and ask them to call their elected officials to oppose this bill.
  5. Start writing letters to the editors of newspapers around our State and our Nation. Education is our most powerful weapon.
  6. Start posting on any online forum you can find. The Meridian Star and WMOX.net both have forums locally. Sign up and then express yourself politely, but firmly. Trust me, people do read comments in forums. Take advantage of this!
  7. Go to this link and compare & contrast the difference between Rep. Childers and Rep. Taylor.
  8. Call Rep. Travis Childers’ Mississippi Office (662-841-8808) and let him know how you feel about his silence on this issue.
  9. Call Rep. Gene Taylor’s Mississippi Office (601-582-3246) and thank him for standing firm against this bill.
  10. Call the entire Mississippi Delegation and express yourself politely and firmly.

MOST IMPORTANTLY: Do not let the media or Democrats in general make you feel like today was a failure for the Conservative movement. It was not. In fact it was the best outcome that could be expected. There will be no vote before September! This is no time to be depressed, discouraged, demoralized or defeated. Remind yourself daily if necessary that when it counted, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi DID NOT GET HER WAY and neither did the White House.

Hold your head up high because to paraphrase a blue-collar guy I’m sure you’ll recognize, “Obama DID NOT Git-R-Done!”

 

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