This is important. Please contact your representative. Now. Today! The Dems are still scrambling to find enough votes to pass this massive job killing, tax raising, homage to junk science and bad policy.
From the White House lawn to the bowels of the Capitol to the hills just east of Nashville, Democrats pulled out all the stops and employed their biggest guns to whip dozens of still-undecided members.
Although supporters of the bill to lower carbon emissions expressed confidence that the universe of undecided votes was shrinking in favor of an expanding pool of yeses, their actions throughout the day suggested they were in a frenzy to secure a critical mass of supporters.
Where does your Representative stand? You can’t be sure unless you contact them. It looks like very few Republicans will vote for this mess, but there are a few still undecided.
Former Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R-N.Y.), who has been courting centrist Republicans to support the bill and attended Pelosi’s recent meetings with those Republicans — was lingering just outside the Speaker’s Lobby on Thursday afternoon.
Boehlert now works for the Alliance for Climate Protection, where Gore is chairman of the board.
The president’s energy and climate change point person, Carol Browner, also spent Thursday wooing GOP centrists, according to leadership aides.
It’s unclear whether she changed the minds of fence-sitting GOP Reps. Dave Reichert (Wash.), Mike Castle (Del.) or Mark Kirk (Ill.).
If any of those three are yours, burn up their email and their phones!
The President and Dem leadership are trying to sell this as a jobs bill. What?!? This bill will make us nostalgic for 10% unemployment (and for semi-affordable power bills).
“Make no mistake,” Obama added, “this is a jobs bill.”
The “green jobs” message is one Democrats have had difficulty selling, in part because of GOP attacks on the bill and in part because their messaging ability was co-opted by weeks’ worth of delicate negotiations with Democrats from agricultural areas, and that dominated their focus.
Don’t let them implement this mythical jobs bill. Take action.
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I did have to agree with one thing that was said.
President Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, delivering a stern warning on Thursday to members attending the Democratic whip meeting.
“If this goes down, it shows we can’t govern,” Axelrod said, according to one person in attendance.
Yeah, but we already knew that.
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