[Swiftwater Gazette] BOHICA - Call Your Congress Critter Today!

[Brad Haslett]

Here's the list of Dems who needs calling (GOP below).  I've got Gene
Taylor of Mississippi covered.

Bright
AL-02
334-277-9113

Griffith
AL-05
256-551-0190

Berry
AR-01
870-972-4600

Ross
AR-04
501-520-5892

Mitchell
AZ-05
480-946-2411

Giffords
AZ-08
520-881-3588

Cardoza
CA-18
209-527-1914

Costa
CA-20
559-495-1620

Schiff
CA-29
626-304-2727

Harman
CA-36
310-643 3636

Baca
CA-43
909-888-2222

Sanchez
CA-47
714-621-0102

Salazar
CO-03
970-245-7107

Boyd
FL-02
850-561-3979

Bishop
GA-02
229-439-8067

Marshall
GA-08
478-464-0255

Barrow
GA-12
706-722-4494

Scott
GA-13
770-210-5073

Boswell
IA-03
515-282-1909

Minnick
ID-01
208-667-0127

Donnelly
IN-02
574.288.2780

Ellsworth
IN-08
812-465-6484

Hill
IN-09
812-288-3999

Moore
KS-03
785-842-9313

Chandler
KY-06
859-219-1366

Melancon
LA-03
225.621.8490

Kravotil
MD-01
202-225-5311

Michaud
ME-02
 207-942-6935

Childers
MS-01
662-841-8808

Taylor
MS-04
228.864.7670

Shuler
NC-11
828-252-1651

Pomeroy
ND
01-224-0355

Arcuri
NY-24
315-252-2777

Wilson
OH–06
740-633-5705

Space
OH-18
330-364-4300

Altmire
PA-04
724-378-0928

Thompson
PA-05
814-353-0215

Murphy
PA-08
215-826-1963

Carney
PA-10
570-585-9988

Holden
PA-17
717-234-5904

Herseth-Sandlin
SD
605-367-8371

Davis
TN-04
202.225.6831

Cooper
TN-05
615-736-5292

Gordon
TN-06
615-896-1986

Tanner
TN-08
731-885-7070

Cuellar
TX-28
210-271-2851

Matheson
UT-02
801-486-1236

Nye
VA-02
757-326-6201

Perriello
VA-05
434-293-9631

GOP

Vern Buchanan (FL-13): 202-225-5015
Joseph Cao (LA-02): 202-225-6636
Vern Ehlers (MI-03): 202-225-3831
Rodney Frelinghuysen (NJ-11): 202-225-5034
Jim Gerlach (PA-06): 202-225-4315
Tim Johnson (IL-15): 202-225-2371
Mark Kirk (IL-10): 202-225-4835
Chris Smith (NJ-04): 202-225-3765

On 6/26/09, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
> Boys and Girls, today is a watershed moment.  The House is voting on
> another bill no one has read.  In fact, it isn't even finished yet.
> They'll be penciling in last minute "compromises" right up to the
> point of the vote.  Is it too much to ask that we put some thought
> into the biggest tax increase in history?  If you really think that
> global warming is real and carbon is bad, tax carbon.  It is simple to
> collect and cuts out 99% of the opportunity for fraud.  This
> cap-n-trade is one massive "command and control" takeover of private
> industry.
>
> Here's the bigger threat - if this passes, healthcare "reform" is
> next.  There's probably a dozen workable solutions to providing
> affordable health insurance to the uninsured. But that is not Obama's
> goal - it is another "command and control" issue for he and his
> minions.  He was caught off guard the other night in a revealing
> moment when he said he'd want the best possible care for his family.
> Notice, he doesn't use the public school system for his children.  The
> Obama plan for a single-payer health care system will not have the
> option for private care.  He's on record along with his supporters for
> destroying private health insurance. Otherwise, things would develop
> like the education system - you are forced to pay taxes for a public
> system but have the option to use a private system.  You won't have
> that option for medical care, it will be the public route or nothing.
> It will be illegal to not accept public patients just as it is in
> Canada under the guise that private clinics and hospitals are using
> "scarce" resources. Otherwise, employers like mine would pay for
> health care at better facilities and others would get access to the
> nationwide rationing system (large employers like mine are
> self-insured - the "insurance" company simply handles the
> administration). Their goal is not to provide the best healthcare, it
> is to provide equal access to equally shitty health care - command and
> control.
>
> Cap and Trade can be reversed once people figure out how much it
> affects their disposable income and their livelihood (China and India
> don't give a shit about global warming so jobs will head east at an
> even faster pace).  If a single-payer health care system passes, we'll
> most likely be stuck with it forever (the 40% who don't pay taxes sure
> as hell won't pressure for a change).  These decisions are being made
> by a handful of people.  Most of the Democrats don't have a say in
> what is being proposed and won't have a chance to read the bill until
> after they've voted.  The Republicans are completely in the dark and
> powerless.
>
> What a joke this Republic as become!  Think bananas.
>
> Brad
>