Action Twofer: Single Payer and Impeach the Supremes!

[Demeter]

FIRST:

It's FINALLY Time For The People To Be Heard On Health Care

What a sad tragedy, that the Democrats had to trash the Senate seat
in Massachusetts just to be willing to start to listen to their
constituents on health care reform. But this is what President Obama
said in his State of the Union address:

"But if anyone from either party has a better approach that will
bring down premiums, bring down the deficit, cover the uninsured,
strengthen Medicare for seniors, and stop insurance company abuses,
let me know. Let me know. Let me know. I'm eager to see it."

That's what he said. OK then, so NOW we the people need to TELL him.

Single Payer Push Action Page:
http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1031.php

What are we supposed to do? Not tell him?? He just invited us to the
table. What are we supposed to do, not show up, so he can say the
people did not respond to his invitation?

No, we need to flood the White House and Congress with more messages
than they have ever seen in their lives. We need everyone who has
ever submitted an action on this to do it again, and again, and again
if necessary, until we build the numbers that will force them to
listen whether they actually and sincerely wanted to or not.

There is a reason why the drug and insurance companies fought so hard
to keep single payer health care, like a Medicare for All system,
from even being considered as an option. It is precisely because they
know it is the only thing that will reduce their outrageous profits.
In other words, this proves THEY know it is the only thing that will
actually work, to reduce health care costs for the American people
and their government treasury.

If corporate insurance companies, with their ridiculously high
overhead, can stay in business charging the premiums they do, then
why cannot the existing economical and efficient Medicare system take
in more people at more reasonable rates, and remain solvent until the
end of time? The logic is inescapable to anyone even willing to
CONSIDER good public policy.

Single Payer Push Action Page:
http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1031.php

We the people demand: 1) open up the Medicare system to ANY American
citizen who wants to buy into it, 2) eliminate the ERISA loophole
(Kucinich amendment) that makes it more difficult for states to
create their own single payer systems, if that is what they want, 3)
ban the various insurance company bad faith denial of coverage
dodges.

Of course we still have the "Economical and Efficient Single Payer
Health Care" caps available. And you can get one from the return page
after you submit the Action Page above.

For Facebook on this one go to

Single Payer via Facebook:
http://apps.facebook.com/fb_voices/action.php?qnum=pnum1031

And the Twitter reply for single payer is

@cxs #p1031

SECOND

Demonstrate YOUR Visible Disapproval Of The Supreme Court 5

Other than that, the big news story at the State of the Union was
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito making sour faces and talking
back, just because the President even gently chided them about the
real life impact of their unprecedented decision to surrender our
elections to corporate special interest money. Wow, talk about a lack
of judicial temperament! Well, maybe what we need to do is display
OUR visual disapproval of them.

Many thousands of you have already requested the new bumper stickers,
which we will start shipping in just a couple more days. We will be
printing mailing labels for you all weekend. So if you want either a
"Corporations Are NOT The People" or an "Impeach The Supreme Court 5"
bumper sticker you can get them from this page to still get in on the
first giant distribution.

Bumper Stickers for no charge:
http://www.peaceteam.net/bumper_stickers.php

You can have your choice of either action bumper sticker for no
charge, not even shipping. If you want both at the same time please
make a donation of any amount, and especially please make a donation
if you CAN, because this is what allows us to send free bumper
stickers to anyone who cannot make a donation right now.

And be sure to submit the two action pages on this issue from which
we are just starting to build the movement and political will to
repudiate the rogue Supreme Court 5, comprising Roberts, Alito,
Scalia, Thomas and Kennedy.

Action Page: Corporations Are NOT The People
http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1029.php

Action Page: Impeach The Supreme Court 5
http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1030.php

Facebook participants can also submit the ALTERNATE action pages at

Corporations Are Not The People:
http://apps.facebook.com/fb_voices/action.php?qnum=pnum1029

Impeach The Supreme Court 5:
http://apps.facebook.com/fb_voices/action.php?qnum=pnum1030

And on Twitter, just send the following Twitter reply for the
Corporations Are Not The People action

@cxs #p1029

And this Twitter reply for the Impeach The Supreme Court 5 action

@cxs #p1030

[brooklynite]

1. Angry and unproductive.....

While there might be 51 votes for Single Payer through Reconciliation, there is not and never was majority support for Single Payer. Do you propose impeaching all the Republicans and Democrats who won't support SP as well as the Supreme Court?

And as for the Supreme Court, you know there wouldn't be the votes to Impeach, much less the 67 votes to Convict; so you'd be tying up the Congress for six months when they could be doing something more useful.

[salguine]

2. In that case they WOULD be doing something useful, as compared to the rest of the time, when

they do nothing at best, and fuck things up even more at worst.