On Monday, President Obama asked American to contact their members of Congress to put the pressure on for a solution to the debt crisis. And the servers on the Hill crashed.
Today, Obama reiterated that message. Guess what happened?
Telephone circuits were reported at near capacity around 11:45 a.m. The office of the House’s chief administrative officer did not yet have total call-in figures, but spokesman Dan Weiser told The Hill: “Call volume is up, some people may experience some busy signals.”
Now the Obama campaign is taking the fight to Twitter:
And that's exactly what the Obama campaign has been doing today, Tweeting contact information for every Republican in Congress, in every state:
Will it work? Will Republicans actually listen to the American people and raise the damn debt ceiling? Who knows? After all, the teabagger wing of the Republican Party has made it pretty clear that they don't care what the American people think. Unless they get to gut Pell grants, slash Medicare and add some teabag nuttery to the Constitution, they're willing to bring on the econopocalypse—because that's what Jesus and Thomas Jefferson would have done.
But it's still a smart move for Obama's team to help the American people direct their #fuckyouWashington anger at the right people: Republicans.