The Left Mobilizes For ObamaCare: 100,000 Calls on Tuesday


TPM has published an e-mail detailing a new grass roots push for ObamaCare. Organizing for America (OFA) is rallying its troops and holding mass ‘house parties’ on Tuesday with the aim of making 100,000 phone calls to Congress in one day.

On Tuesday, October 20th, OFA volunteers will gather at “Time to Deliver” Call Parties in living rooms like yours across the country. We’ll call friendly voters whose voices matter in this debate, talk to them about the President’s plan, and ask them to call on their representatives to support reform. Our goal? 100,000 calls to Congress placed or committed to in a single day. It’s an ambitious goal, but the stakes couldn’t be higher — and if we hit it, we cannot be ignored.

Options:

A) Sit back and watch them fall short of their stated goals. Mock them mercilessly.

B) Accept it. Let them have their day and exhaust themselves. Fight on.

C) Try to blow up their operation with a counter maneuver. Any suggestions?


[I must give them a little credit though. I do like their tactic of making call to voters and asking them to call their representatives. On the downside, there is no assurance that the people they call will call Congress. On the upside, calls from constituents are far, far, far more effective than direct calls from non-constituents. For future reference, there are conservative phone lists out there.]


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Swamp, we should be able to have a good laugh on Wednesday.

penguin2 (Diary) Saturday, October 17th at 6:06PM EST (link)

Although they might try to spin the numbers, and they are good at that. I wonder if they will be as a successful as they were with their calls for counter protesters to our Town Halls. They’ll have to pay some money for this upfront.

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"Any suggestions?" Yes.

ColdWarrior (Diary) Saturday, October 17th at 6:27PM EST (link)

Someone in another thread asked how we make it “100% crystal clear that if they vote for this . . . they will . . . lose their job next November”?

By sending them more letters? More faxes? Doubtful. That hasn’t seemed to work so far.

But, if you make a call, send a fax, or an e-mail, and prominently include one of the two following statements, I think you CAN and WILL make a difference, assuming you actually are speaking the truth:

“I am a conservative Republican Party precinct committeeman and I am doing everything in my power to recruit all other conservatives to come into the Republican Party as precinct committeemen to make sure you lose your attempt to get reelected,” or

“I am a conservative Republican and I am have already contacted my local Republican Party organization to become a precinct committeeman and I am doing everything in my power to recruit all other conservatives to come into the Republican Party as precinct committeemen to make sure you lose your attempt to get reelected.”

With the Republican Party having had one-half of its precinct committeeman slots nationwide vacant in the 2008 election cycle, the incumbents know their main adversary party, our party, is at half strength and, therefore, a “paper tiger” that is horrible at getting out the vote. They also know that many foolish independents would flock to a third party candidates who would profess to be more conservative than the “Democrat Lite” moderate Republican Party offerings.

Want to put some teeth in the threats? Then help turn the Republican Party into a full-strength, solid conservative political powerhouse at the grass roots. That’s accomplished by conservatives actually joining the Party at the grass roots. Change the status quo NOW from a Party at half strength with a fifty-fifty split between conservatives and moderates into a full-strength political powerhouse with a 75 per cent to 25 per cent split between conservatives and moderates.

Nobody else is going to do it. As Moe Lane says, don’t expect the cavalry to do it. We’re the cavalry. If you want to save your country, you best become a Republican Party precinct committeeman NOW. Crossing your fingers and hoping for change will not get it done in 2010.

The Constitution begins with “we the people.” With half of the precinct committeeman slots in the Republican Party in the 2008 election cycle having been vacant, I submit that “we the people” who have not been fighting to get into the real political ball game of party politics have let our country, our Founders and our posterity down. We have gotten the government our apathy and inaction deserve.

Conservatives, the Republican Party is the main adversary of the Democrat Party. It was at half strength in 2008. And had about 50 per cent of its precinct committeemen of the “moderate” McCain persuasion. Look at the leadership that those PCs elected. Look at the candidates that made it to the general elections. Want more conservative leaders and spokesmen? More conservatives winning the primary contests? Then DO SOMETHING about it. Become a precinct committeeman. NOW! There are plenty of open slots. If all the slots are filled with moderates. challenge them. Get off your duffs and get into the Party if you haven’t already. Nobody else is going to do it. It’s up to YOU.

Thank you.

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Why wait till Tuesday???

reddog53 (Diary) Saturday, October 17th at 7:21PM EST (link)

Why don’t we counter with calls on Monday…

 

Ok, sounds great, but

Jaimo Saturday, October 17th at 8:24PM EST (link)

don’t you have to actually live in a state that has Republicans in it.

I’m in Connecticut, what do I say to Dodd and Liebermann that I haven’t already been saying once a month?

Or do I just leave to all the Redstaters to handle it.

I don't know what to recommend Jaimo,

nessa (Diary) Saturday, October 17th at 8:41PM EST (link)

You could start with Cold Warrior’s recommendation above, but they will just mock you from the castle walls in a scene reminiscent of Monty Python’s “The Holy Grail.” “Now go away conservative, or I shall mock you a second time.”

But if there are enough Tea Partier’s in San Francisco to protest Obama your neighbors in Connecticut may surprise you!

One thing I know for sure, leaving it to someone else is what got us here in the first place. Our children cannot afford our doing that ever again.

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