Posted on 03/11/2010 8:30:58 PM PST by freespirited
With a final vote drawing near on President Obama's health-care overhaul, Republicans' latest strategy can be neatly summarized: try to scare the daylights out of House Democrats.
For months Republicans have been telling the public that the Democrats' plan is a government takeover of healthcare. Now they are ramping up their warnings to Democratic lawmakers themselves, saying a "yes" vote puts their careers at risk.
A GOP-funded billboard in Bismark, ND, targets the state's sole congressman, Earl Pomeroy, for defeat.
Democrats ridicule the notion that Republican leaders are concerned they could lose seats, and also contend that voters have been pelted with misinformation. If it passes and the public sees its benefits, support for the plan and those who enacted it will rise, they say.
"I'm ready for that battle," said Sander Levin (D-MI) whose district includes many conservative Democrats. "I have confidence people will decide that responsible reform was better than the status quo...."
The National Republican Congressional Committee, which coordinates GOP House campaigns, has launched a "Code Red" initiative targeting individual Democrats. This includes a billboard in Bismarck, N.D., aimed at Earl Pomeroy, North Dakota's only congressman. "Stop Obamacare-Beat Pomeroy," reads the 24-foot white-on-red billboard, a block from Pomeroy's office.
Pomeroy has won his recent elections by large margins. But North Dakota is a conservative state that supported John McCain by 53% to 45% in the 2008 presidential election, and in the current climate few Democrats in conservative areas can feel sure of re-election.
Pomeroy couldn't be reached for comment. But when the House passed the overhaul in November, he voted for it, saying the bill wasn't perfect but made an important step forward.
Republicans are also targeting other Democrats, mostly in swing districts, including Gabrielle Gifford of Arizona, Rick Boucher of Virginia and Jim Matheson of Utah....
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Keep believing that, dems. You'll be a shoe-in in November. (Heh!)
I have fought against people who posed less of a threat to our nation that this President and this Congress. And I respected them a lot more. Our day of reckoning comes in November; until then, my contempt will continue to boil.
That will be a neat trick because the taxes start immediately and the "health care" starts in four years.
In the intervening four years, there will be CHAOS in the health insurance industry and the medical device industry specifically, and the health care industry in general. Real, genuine chaos.
They are delusional, thinking passing the bill will help them.
Passing the bill will destroy the Democrats for a decade.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2469197/posts
How can they tell us this bill is so great when they keep telling us they haven’t read it?
Is there anything dumber than that?
Let's not fall into the thinking that 0bama's low numbers are only because the HC bill is too liberal. Just as Dubya's low numbers were the result of conservatives deserting him, 0bama's, too, are driven by liberals who consider him 'not liberal enough'.
“”I’m ready for that battle,” said Sander Levin (D-MI) whose district includes many conservative Democrats. “I have confidence people will decide that responsible reform was better than the status quo....” “
They talk about reform when it’s a whole restructuring of our system into a SOCIALIZED deathcare. They’re so busy listening to themselves talk they forget we’re the people who have to use it. How dare they make decisions for us on something they wouldn’t take for themselves or their families.
It’s only a problem when Republicans do it, not when demwits do.
Defeat Obamacare call list: List now contains the new MAYBES culled from FR posts.
PLEASE CALL! DC OFFICE LOCAL OFFICE State District
Code Red” - House Target List on Health Care
The National Republican Congressional Committee has published a target list on health care. In addition to continuing to contact the five Tennessee Democrat Congressmen, you can go http://www.votervoice.net/link/clickthrough/ext/94697.aspx to contact some of these targets. Much of the talk following Obama’s announcement has focused on how to defeat this second bill through reconciliation, but that is misleading because the first step to defeating Obamacare is not by concentrating on defeating the “fixer” bill but by defeating the Senate bill in the House when it goes to the floor for an up-or-down vote on Thursday, March 18th.
Rep. Lincoln Davis 202-225-6831 Columbia office: 931-490-8699
Rep. Jim Cooper 202-225-4311 Nashville office: 615-736-5295
Rep. Bart Gordon 202-225-4231 Murfreesboro office: 615-896-1986
John Tanner (202) 225-4714, Union City, (731) 885-7070, Jackson Phone: (731) 423-4848, Millington (901) 873-5690 TN (MAYBE)
Rep. Steve Cohen 202-225-3265 Memphis office: 901-544-4131
Harry Mitchell (202) 225-2190 (480) 946-2411 AZ 5th District
Gabrielle Giffords (202) 225-2542 (520) 881-3588 AZ 8th District
Ann Kirkpatrick (202) 225-2315 (928) 226-6914 AZ 1st District
Jerry McNerney (202) 225-1947 925-833-0643 CA 11th District
John Salazar 202-225-4761 970-245-7107 CO 3rd District
Jim Himes (202) 225-5541 (866) 453-0028 CT 4th District
Alan Grayson (202) 225-2176 (407) 841-1757 FL 8th District
Bill Foster (202) 225-2976 630-406-1114 IL 14th District
Baron Hill 202 225 5315 812 288 3999 IN 9th District
Mark Schauer (202) 225-6276 (517) 780-9075 MI 7th District
Gary Peters (202) 225-5802 (248) 273-4227 MI 9th District
Dina Titus (202) 225-3252 702-256-DINA (3462) NV 3rd District
Carol Shea-Porter (202) 225-5456 (603) 743-4813 NH 1st District
Tim Bishop (202) 225-3826 (631) 696-6500 NY 1st District
John Hall (202) 225-5441 (845) 225-3641 x49371 NY 19th District
Bill Owens (202) 225-4611 (315) 782-3150 NY 23rd District
Mike Arcuri (202)225-3665 (315)793-8146 NY 24th District
Dan Maffei (202) 225-3701 (315) 423-5657 NY 25th District
Earl Pomeroy (202) 225-2611 (701) 224-0355 ND At-Large District
Steven Driehaus (202) 225-2216 (513) 684-2723 OH 1st District
Mary Jo Kilroy (202) 225-2015 (614) 294-2196 OH 15th District
Zach Space (202) 225-6265 (330) 364-4300 OH 18th District
Kathy Dahlkemper (202) 225-5406 (814) 456-2038 PA 3rd District
Patrick Murphy (202) 225-4276 (215) 826-1963 PA 8th District
Christopher Carney (202) 225-3731 (570) 585-9988 PA 10th District
Paul Kanjorski (202) 225-6511 (570) 825-2200 PA 11th District
John Spratt (202) 225-5501 (803)327-1114 SC 5th District
Tom Perriello (202) 225-4711 (276) 656-2291 VA 5th District
Alan Mollohan (202) 225-4172 (304) 623-4422 WVA 1st District
Nick Rahall (202) 225-3452 (304) 252-5000 WVA 3rd District
Steve Kagen (202) 225-5665 (920) 437-1954 WI 8th District
Bart Stupak (202) 225 4735 MI (MAYBE)
Brian Baird (202) 225-3536, Vancouver, (360) 695-6292. Olympia, (360) 352-9768, (MAYBE)
senator mark begich (202) 224-3004 toll free. (877) 501 - 6275 just became a MAYBE
Jason Altmire 202-225-2565, Aliquippa, 724-378-0928,
Natrona Heights, 724-226-1304 (MAYBE)
On the Bubble (Major developments from the “yes” and “no” columns in the House)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467046/posts
More Americans will have died by inaction of Nancy Pelosi since Christmas Eve than died from the terrorist actions on 9-11.
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