Congress isn't feeling much heat from Obama's 'army'

McClatchy ^ | 3/23/09 | David Lightman and William Douglas

[Nachum]

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's army of canvassers fanned out across the nation over the weekend to drum up support for his $3.55 trillion budget, but they had no noticeable impact on members of Congress, who on Monday said they were largely unaware of the effort.

"News to me," said Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, a House Budget Committee member, of the canvassing. Later, his staff said that his office had heard from about 100 voters

[Nachum]

The List, ping

[Danae]

Looks like Doggett needs some phone callin from FReepers!

[RC2]

Obama is only looking for email addresses and phone numbers for his next run at the Presidency. He’s already going to start raising money for the Democrats and they don’t even see it.

[AndrewWalden]

A mile wide—an inch deep.

[knarf]

zero is not forming anything, zero came into this already formed.

The money initially came from Soros, but is now provided by the willing, useful idiots that think they want the USA replaced by the USSA.

The useful idiots know their money will be returned, either as laundered cash, or some other service.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I can’t believe that BO is such a horrible communicator that he needs to send out his “army” of useful idiots, braindead ACORNS and union thugs to “convince” the voters that they need to support BO’s gargantuan spending monstrosity or else.

[SkyDancer]

Why hasn’t the TPOTUS told him next time he gets on TV to have people email him instead?

[jveritas]

I knew that this crappy Obama army is nothing. This America folks, we do not get intimated by a bunch of foolish college students knocking on the doors asking us to pledge loyalty for a person. In fact they were so few of them knocking on the doors or else the media would have made a much bigger deal about this so called Obama army.

[sergeantdave]

obuma’s army consists of a fat herd of stupid welfare cows too lazy to roll off the couch.

This is obuma’s make-believe Sun Tzu army.

[NewHampshireDuo]

Our local (well, she’s in a town 15 miles away) activist had the sniffles and cancelled her canvass.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Good news. Let’s hope his cult shrivels into nothingness. Like his intellect.

[PhiKapMom]

His base is the Chicago Thugs and you are not going to get them going door to door — that would mean work. :)

[WesternPacific]

His base is the Chicago Thugs and you are not going to get them going door to door — that would mean work. :)

No, but the stimulus money awarded to ACORN will pay deadbeats and clueless people to do the work.

[lowbridge]

It would have helped if they only had attached checks to their petitions. Otherwise its going to be put away in the nearest wastebasket.

[St. Louis Conservative]

Nothing screams Saturday afternoon like donning a brownshirt and harassing your neighbors to support a socialist budget.

[chris_bdba]

LOL! Yep they had to be drove to the polls what makes anyone think they would walk anywhere?

[BAW]

This America folks, we do not get intimated by a bunch of foolish college students knocking on the doors asking us to pledge loyalty for a person.

Shucks. I was looking forward to a visit from one of them, but no one showed up.