Update: Here's the link to the kickoff. Leave a comment or, preferably, a trackback if you're signed on. I'll update the posting with blogs that are signed on to the effort. Please forward to your conservative friends so we've got a good mix along the spectrum. And make suggestions of the best date to have the calls happen.
Double-Update: I didn't realize the final vote in the Senate is today! March 10th! So, not much time to get a real coalition together for the Senate vote. The post is still up though - everyone is encouraged to reach out to their friends across the aisle to get some last minute efforts set up. The House battle comes soon.
So, we've seen a freeper thread pissed off about the bankruptcy bill. We've seen Glenn Reynolds agree that it's a dog.
We know that the bankruptcy bill has NO popular support and that it's all about politicians and lobbyists. This is basically both Republicans and Democrats being divorced from a bipartisan public.
And we know by now that sometimes the internet-fueled grassroots are the only "check" we have against a Congress that gets divorced from reality.
So, what are the possibilities of starting a one-time-only joint campaign among the left and the right to protest this bankruptcy bill?
Maybe it would be a blogosphere-wide call-in day, for folks to pound their Senators - left AND right - and hold their feet to the fire about this awful bill.
I honestly doubt that the blogosphere is yet powerful enough to really change this. But this does show that on some matters, the political battle is NOT left versus right, but grassroots versus... whatever kind of crap they're reacting to. And I'd like to see one good attempt at some bipartisan muscle-flexing from the blogosphere. If for nothing else, a benchmark of how far we've come and how far we have to go.
What do y'all think? Anyone have inroads to the conservative blogs to set something up? Any ideas?