The Flag I'm Flying Today
Posted on 09/27/2009 12:43:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Well, this certainly can't be legal, can it? If you call one of the numbers that leads you to the switchboard for Congress, the number you'd call to be put through to your Congressman or Senator's office, you get a short message selling Obama's healthcare snake-oil before being transferred to the switchboard operator.
How can this even be legal? After all, this isn't the Democrat Party hotline we are talking about here. It is the main phone number representing all of Congress, not just Obama and his nationalized healthcare policies. I repeat, this is the phone number for all of Congress, not an activist's number to sell Democrats and their policies.
I just cannot see how this is legal, and even if it is legal it is gauche and not right. Can the message for the Congressional switchboard be used for partisan purposes? I just can't see it being legal.
While it lasts, try it yourself and you'll see. The number is 1-800-828-0498.
Here is the transcript of the message you'll hear:
Thank you for calling your Representative and your Senators.
Please urge them to vote yes on health insurance reform. Because the American people can no longer wait for more choices, lower costs, and coverage we can count on.
After this little message the phone rings once again and is patched through to the switchboard operator.
I have to say, this message is frightening. We can't even call our representatives without being hit over the head by the socialized healthcare message. Not to mention the fact that the message is a bald-faced lie. Obama's plan will not give us "more choices," Obama's plan will not "lower costs," and Obamacare will not give us better coverage.
Am I the only one who's insulted by the continuing attack on our ability to believe just how low RATS will go to push their agenda?
“I wondered if this was a trick on conservatives. I wondered if the number was set up to deceive people into thinking that it is what it is not.”
Well, if it is, we conservatives may have contributed significanntly to the “trick”. I don’t think there’s anything significant in this (but obviously some here do).
Again, if Families USA is paying for this 800 number, and one doesn’t wish to pay for their own phonecall to Congress, that organization has a perfect right to put their message out if you (the caller) choose to use their service. They can even claim they are doing it as a public service (albeit with an embedded message).
Do what you want, it’s America after all, but pursuing this (without doing further homework) runs the risk of making us look foolish. Unless the taxpayers really are paying for this, which I don’t think is happening here. You might confirm public funds are used for the 800 number before deciding to get too excited.
Just sayin’.
Hey, at least it’s not:
Barrack Hussein Obama
umm umm umm
Look on bright side.
I just called this number too and got the same message. How many of our congressmen know this? I am calling back and going to call Rep McCarthy about this.
just called my congress critter’s office...no answer not even voice mail today so will endeavour to call tomorrow and let them know I resent this ad before being connected to his office and to vote NO on 0bama care
The Flag I'm Flying Today
WND story:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=111243
Why, exactly, wouldn’t I believe this?
Nice blog.
800-number calls are free via Skype (like Skype-to-Skype calls and unlike calls from Skype to a regular phone number).
call the number over and over...let them ring you through, then hang up OR you can tell your senator/rep to NOT VOTE FOR HUSSEIN’S HEALTH CARE.
the 800 phone number is paid for by some liberal hackjob lobbying group.
so let them pay for your call. bwa ha ha ha ha...do it every single day.....they have to pay....
Its "true" but a hoax too. I called it also, got the infomercial, then the switchboard and then DeMint's office.LOL!I figured it out and put the explanation here: The Patriot's Flag - Internet Infomercial "Intercept"
See also my post #6 -- further up this thread.
I found your website via Google, looking for this toll-free number.
I should have known that you were a Freeper!
What group *doesn’t* operate at least one capitol hill forwarding number? Here are the others I have found so far, along with who appears to be behind them:
1-800-828-0498 Families USA
1-866-311-3405 SEIU
1-800-459-1887
1-800-614-2803
1-866-340-9281
1-866-338-1015
1-866-220-0044 NARFE
1-800-417-7666
1-877-851-6437 (popular on DavidDuke.com)
1-866-924-6242 NAHB (National Association of Home Builders)
socialist groups make big push for obozocare:
includes non toll free # for various senators
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349933/posts
Don’t hang up. Give them an earful. P.S. You are not prohibited from calling someone else’s Congress Critter. Tell Pelosi and Reid what you thinl too.
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