Cross-posted from Docudharma

In another arrogant collusion to once again deny us any possibility of what we want — real health care reform, single payer, public option — those who do what they want, but not what we want, have decided to scrap the conference committee to reconcile the Senate and House versions.  Instead, they have decided to have a secret meeting of the 3 major players, Pelosi, Reid, Obama, behind closed doors without reporters or C-Span.

This is a call to action.  We need to call congress and tell them we are furious.  Like modern day Paul Reveres, we need to ride through the countryside on our internet horses and yell from the rooftops, “The fascists are coming.  The fascists are coming.”   And we aren’t gonna take it any more.  No we aren’t.

It’s time for the Second American Revolution.  We need to let Congress know we aren’t going to take this any more.  No taxation without representation.  No mandates to force us to buy junk health insurance when we don’t have a democratic say in what is being put into law.

To the rooftops, to the tubes, to Congress, say NO!  We won’t take it any more.  The Second American Revolution is coming.  The Second American Revolution is Coming.

Follow below for more to do and a very cogent letter from PDA.

                Promises, Promises

Take Action–Tell Pelosi & Reid:

NO on MANDATE, YES on STATES’ RIGHTS

In a colusion to o nce again deny us what we want

In John Nichols’ column, “Dem Leaders Scheme to Scrap Health-Reform Conference Committee,” Nichols reports there will be no conference committee working to reconcile the two healthcare bills. Progressives had hoped to impact the final legislation in a profound way through this committee.

We have been lied to over and again in our attempts to get a debate and a vote on Medicare for All. Our last hope to negotiate a state waiver to ERISA, which would allow states to pass single-payer healthcare without a court challenge from healthcare corporations, has vanished before our eyes.

This is the final straw.

Call Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Reid. Tell them you will not support any Democrat in the midterms who votes for a bill which:

does not include the ERISA waiver for states–effective immediately, and

includes a mandate forcing us to buy defective corporate insurance policies

Time is short, and they need to hear from us–TODAY and TOMORROW. The Democratic Caucus meets on Thursday.

This is the straw that breaks the camel’s back. Please make these two calls and use the ‘forward-to-a-friend’ button above to send this action to like-minded people you know.

In solidarity,

Tim Carpenter

Please reread The Declaration of Independence.  It states that all men  are created equal and are endowed with certain unalienable rights–life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  In order to secure these rights:

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, – That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Whenever a government becomes destructive of these rights (and health care is included in these rights), “it is the right of the People [to rise up] to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government.”  

We have reached this point.  The government has gone too far in corruption, cronyism, and the power of the dollar.  We are now living with a government which is enimical to, and destructive of our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  

But I digress.  There will be more on this later/soon.  For now, however, we need to give notice to our Congressional non-representatives that their tenure of serving the corporate rich and harming “We the People” is coming to an end.

If they refuse to give us real Health Care Reform, they are finished.  We will work toward the Second American Revolution.

Call Congress.  Let them feel our anger.  Let them know.  Toll free numbers below in comments.