Thanks to three Republican women senators, Obamacare might just survive the GOP’s campaign to repeal it. The fight is not over, so keep calling our own senators with words of encouragement in this fight, but let’s thank these women for their courage to stand up against their own party and for wanting to see something better for their constituents and the rest of us.
Like the Monty Python skit, the GOP Senate health care effort is not dead yet.
There are many confusing options and money being thrown on the table and there is a tremendous amount of pressure without regard to human life and economic impact.
The GOP would like us to be quiet now but we cannot be.
Trump does not want Congress to leave for August recess until a bill is passed.
They couldn’t come up with a good bill in seven years; a few weeks will not be the charm.
As Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz tweeted: “Under-appreciated in 2017 is the biggest grassroots movement in human history just formed w/no politician in charge. Power to the people.”
We are those people!
Please keep up the pressure with your Senators!
(Ben Wikler, MoveOn) “…we need to make sure zombie Trumpcare stays in its grave. Remember, McConnell is still insisting on a vote next week on repealing the Affordable Care Act, even though he doesn’t have the votes to pass it—apparently because he wants to be able to say he tried before moving on to tax cuts for billionaires. We need to make absolutely sure that vote goes down in flames. But even after that, even if Republicans can’t repeal it legislatively, Trump will keep trying to sabotage it through executive action. And Trump’s budget calls for hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid. We still have to resist with all our might.
And it’s also time to look ahead. We must hold accountable everyone who voted for this hideous bill or came close to supporting it—and prepare to throw dozens of Republicans out of Congress next fall. And it’s time to rally Democrats in support of the visionary step forward that America still desperately needs: Medicare for All. “
As soon as I read this story…I knew that I wasn’t alone in thinking how inspirational this was. Alison & Stephanie connected it to this amazing essay from Rebecca Solnit comparing the conservative ideology of isolation to the reality of our communion with each other and the world: “The modern right may wish that every man were an island, entire of himself, but no one is wholly independent. You can’t survive without taking air into your lungs, you didn’t give birth to or raise yourself, you won’t bury yourself, and in between you won’t produce most of the goods and services you depend on to live. Your gut is full of microorganisms, without which you could not digest all the plants and animals, likely grown by other people, on which you rely to survive. We are nodes on intricate systems, synapses snapping on a great collective brain; we are in it together, for better or worse.”
There are some dark forces at work here. So let’s review our strongest weapon, one that we can wield every day like a short rectangular wand…
Yes, it is your humble, yet amazing phone!
FAQ’s
– How do I know who to phone or what to say? Click here.
– Calling people I don’t know gives me hives. Really! Click here.
– Why do I need to call? All my representatives are Democrats. Click here.
– I have a life, you know. I don’t have time to make these calls every day … Yesterday, we posted the Friday 10-minute Resistance Diet. It consisted of 3 issues for our senators and 2 for our representative, plus 2 written regulatory comments. If one keeps the written comments short and pithy, it can be done in LESS than 10 minutes. I used the spare time to call a few more of Feinstein’s offices. – Why do I need to do this? Aren’t there enough of you people doing this already? What the GOP is doing can cost you thousands of dollars, a bankruptcy, or even your health, your life or the life of someone you care about. Pretty big stakes. Yeah, we’re crazy committed, but we can’t personally make the thousands of calls a day that are necessary to make the GOP nervous. Please jump in. It gets faster and easier. It makes you powerful. – Here’s the latest comparison between the ACA and the GOP plan. Click here. – Here’s how Trump can make us miserable even if the GOP can’t get the votes they need. Click here. – Calling is way easier than doing this. Click here.
– Does all this calling really have any effect? Yes. Click here.Continue reading “This Week in Resistance – “Collusion isn’t Illegal!” Edition”→
We at Indivisible gnaw on legislators’ corruption and greed. The effort keeps us lean.
This has been a big week for bad bills!
Let’s do a 10-minute call blitz to add to our legislator’s call tallies. We have short and long versions for scripts. Choose what seems natural to you. If calling makes you nervous, take a minute to read this:https://tinyurl.com/God-I-hate-calling
Don’t forget: Please write about this and other healthcare topics to the regulatory board the GOP is using to gut the ACA. The deadline for comments is also 7/12.
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