Repeal This
by digby
Everybody is undoubtedly aware of the chutzpah of new House Republicans complaining that they had to go without health insurance for a short period before they were sworn in. “Out of touch” doesn’t even begin to explain it.
But yesterday, they went even further. Every last Republican voted to repeal the Health Care Reforms — but you can count on one hand the number who have similarly rejected the Cadillac Federal health care plan that you and I pay for them to have. Of course, they are very special people and they deserve to be taken care of if they get sick. The rest of us need some “tough love” and have to learn to do with less.
Blue America, Daily Kos, Americans United For Change and Americans for America PAC have gotten together with a coalition of local and state bloggers to try to raise some money to let these wonderful guys and gals’ constituents know how they walk the walk and talk the talk. We think their voters deserve to know that their congressional Representatives think they’re just a little bit more deserving of health care than the nearly 50 million people in this country who are uninsured.
Here’s the radio ad we’ll be running in districts throughout the country.
If you would like to send this pithy little message to voters, you can contribute here.
Howie explains the method to our madness:
If you think this is a worthwhile approach, we’d very much appreciate a contribution to the effort.
It only costs $2,500 per district to run enough of these ads for local media to notice. We know this because Americans United went after Maryland GOP freshman Republican Andy Harris with a radio ad like this back in November. Local media picked up on the ad, and Harris took a big hit for his hypocrisy and cruelty.
Now, we are going to expand this ad buy into other Republican districts. We can easily change the name of the Republican in the ad to make it fit in any district– all we need is the money to run these ads.
Ed Potasnak, the Democrat running against Leonard Lance in NJ-07, and Nicholas Ruiz, the Democrat taking on freshman wingnut Sandy Adams in FL-24 are Blue America’s first two targets. If we can raise more than $5,000 to fund those two, we’ll look for other Republican hypocrites to spotlight.
Click here to contribute to the cause.
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