Republicans can easily destroy the “health care reform” bill right now; if they will but repeatedly and emphatically declare:
IT WILL KILL OUR STRUGGLING ECONOMY.
If every prominent Republican who attends a presser or gives an interview emphasizes that one crystallized point; the political pressure and citizenry push-back against wavering Democrats in the House will be enormous and irresistible.
ECONOMY KILLER equals JOBS KILLER. And the case can easily and succinctly be made that this new, massively unfunded entitlement will require massive new taxes while hobbling the medical industry. That’s obviously an economy killer. As unpopular as this piece of crap bill is, it can immediately be made much more so with simple clarion emphasis regarding its destructiveness to the American economy.
The American people already hate what the bill stands for (the substance of the bill) as well as they hate the corrupt process that has produced it. Now it needs to be branded into the national psyche that the bill will obviously cause long-term, personal financial pain for everyone. - If Republicans would simply apply massive pressure to this one point (using the new CBO numbers on the “reconciliation / fix it” bill as a new cause for alarm) that would be the ball game. There is no way Pelosi could secure wavering votes if the Republicans generated the additional media consciousness that this bill is toxic to our ailing economy.
Your strategy is EXCELLENT.
Here are the ten Representatives that your strategy would be most effective with:
Brian Baird (Wash.)
Rick Boucher (Va.)
Allen Boyd (Fla.)
Bart Gordon (Tenn.)
Suzanne Kosmas (Fla.)
Scott Murphy (N.Y.)
Glenn Nye (Va.)
John Tanner (Tenn.)
Steve Dreihaus (Ohio)
Baron Hill (Indiana)
Tell them that the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has already left the building and that Nancy Pelosi’s Speakership is going down in flames along with Obamacare, so they had better be on the winning side of history if they know what’s good for them.