Crossposted from Docudharma
Yay! Look at all those hands!
Ok now put your hand down...onto your phone....and dial 202-456-1111.
When the nice person answers tell the firmly but politely...but firmly, in a firm voice, the one you use for those times when it it is necessary to be, you know, firm...like now...
Please tell President Obama to MAKE (real firm, right there) Harry Reid include the Public Option in the final Senate Bill.
for bonus points
An INCLUSIVE Public Option with NO TRIGGER!
Because if you want a Public Option, that is about the only way we are going to get it.
Right now Harry Reid has FULL control over whether America gets a Public Option.....or gets forced to buy insurance by mandate from the insurance companies ....who are already threatening to raise rates.
As Majority Leader, Harry Reid can, as Chuck Schumer says in this video...
...Insert the Public Option into the final Senate Bill.
And you can see how happy Harry is about being reminded that it is all on him.
Harry Reid alone has this power. No other Senator even has input. Harry Reid now holds the future of Health Care in his hands and his hands alone.
And we all know what a bastion of fortitude and strength Harry is, right?
There is only one person who can influence him to make the right choice, to include the Public Option...that person is President Obama.
Senator Rockefeller confirms this.
So here we stand:
Harry Reid can CHOOSE, with nothing whatsoever stopping him, to put the Public Option in the final Senate Bill.
If he does this, it takes the magical 60 vote number to REMOVE it.
If he doesn't and it has to be added as an amendment because Harry Reid CHOOSES not to add it to the final Senate Bill then it takes the magical 60 vote number to ADD it by amendment.
After years of watching Harry Reid as Majority Leader, raise your hand if you think he is going to do the right thing for the People of America.
After years of watching Harry Reid as Majority Leader, raise your hand if you think he is going to do the right thing for the Republicans and their Insurance Company owners.
Don't forget in your equation that Harry is facing a tough election. How many think that Harry's decision will be based not on what is best for The People but on what is best for Harry, and his electoral chances?
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So....what can stop Harry Reid from screwing this up? As he has screwed up just about everything else? As Markos points out in this clip Harry is just flat out incapable of leading anything.
And right now what it will take to get the Public Option is leadership.
And right now we seem to have only one leader....Barack Obama.
Fortunately that one leader DOES have the power to force Harry Reid to include the Public Option in the final Senate Bill.
All he has to do is sit Harry down and look him in the eye and say...
"Harry, this will go down in history as MY Health Care Bill. I am not going to let you screw it up by not adding the Public Option. Do it."
Everybody here who thinks "Cavin' Harry Reid" is NOT going to cave to the President whose name is on the Bill raise your hand.
Yeah me too.
Harry would leave the Oval office and go put the Public Option in the final Senate Bill.
If you are only going to make one phone call on behalf of the Public Option and real Health care Reform.....make it NOW!
If you have been waiting fore the right time to get involved...to grab a mop....THIS IS IT!
Call the WH and tell the nice person....
Please tell President Obama to MAKE (real firm, right there) Harry Reid include the Public Option in the final Senate Bill.
THIS is the critical juncture.
No committees, no Republicans, no Snowe....just Barack and Harry. We are down to two people....and YOU can influence one of them.
With one simple phone call.
President Obama gets it....
"It’s smoke and mirrors," Mr. Obama said. "It’s bogus. And it’s all too familiar. Every time we get close to passing reform, the insurance companies produce these phony studies as a prescription and say, ‘Take one of these, and call us in a decade.’ Well, not this time."
....he just needs YOUR help to get Harry to get it too!
Email here
Phone and fax.
Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
FAX: 202-456-2461
Oh and while you have the phone in your hand, it couldn't hurt to call your Representative and your Senators too!
You DO have them on speed dial right?
Here is the Time! Now is the Place! YOU are the hero!
PICK UP THE PHONE AND CALL!
You won't get six steak knives, but you might just get real Health Care Reform!
And remember....every call also automatically adds a vertebrae to the Build Harry Reid a Spine Fund!
