Please call your republican representative and tell them to vote for the Obama

[Maraya1969]

jobs bill. He just gave a great speech about his jobs plan and how people are playing politics to stop job growth. We know this is true. And we also know the Democratic representatives in Washington are going to vote for it anyway and that it is the Republicans that we need to focus on.

The only way we can get republicans to vote for it is to pressure them. Tell them you voted for them. Tell them you think it is an emergency that they pass the bill now. Too many people in this country cannot afford for us to not bother our republican representatives.

Let's try it different this time.

[catbyte]

1. Wish it would help. My teabagger rep. will laugh me off the phone.

Justin Amash, Dickweed

[Maraya1969]

3. Just call and tell him you voted for him but now you realize it is an emergency.

There is no excuse for not calling. We wonder why these jerks keep doing the same thing over and over and yet we keep doing the same thing over and over.

Please, please, please.

[Broderick]

2. you would think they love this one

since it is so much trickle down stimulus again.

[Dragonfli]

11. 80% Chamber of Commerce approved! It will finally be a battle we might win.

http://www.industryweek.com/articles/u-s-_chamber_of_commerce_unveils_job-creation_plan_25482.aspx?Page=2&SectionID=3

[Broderick]

12. Yippy skippy

woohoo

sigh

[Maraya1969]

4. Congress emails and phone numbers

https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

[Maraya1969]

5. Senate email and phone numbers

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

[barbtries]

6. i've written to my republican senator

twice now. i keep thinking - silly me - that if i dare him to actually do his job, maybe he will. but in reality i don't think it's possible to get the republicans to veer from their goal, which is to make Obama a one-term president. they really do not give a rat's ass about the people in this country. and the media is on their side, which means that millions of people do not perceive the disconnect. it's disheartening.
but i'll keep on calling and writing, because it's ALL i can do.

[RKP5637]

7. When I write our jerk R's I get a letter back thanking me for supporting their

position. It's always a WTF. Here, they could care less about jobs, people, or in fact anything but their cronies and money. One time I sent something asking for support of some gay rights and I got 5 letters back basically calling me a jerk. This, is a broken system fueled by greed and money. Most of the R's could care less about "we the people." There is no sense of fairness with the R's, not at all.

[Maraya1969]

8. Remember they need to win elections too. And if enough people call

and tell them they are unhappy with the way they are voting they might think twice if they want to get their jobs again.

Remember the Republican senators from Wisconsin. It was all the noise that the progressives made that caused them to lose their seats.

[Yooperman]

9. You are nieve to think they would actually listen. and change their position.

I am sad to say I belong to the group of people that has given up on expecting the repubs to actually represent the people they are supposed to be serving. They have their own agenda and if every fricken voter in the district called in and demanded them to vote for something Obama wanted passed, they still wouldn't.

I wish it weren't this way... but it is. For repugs it is "Us against Them" mentality...

Peace

YM

[Life Long Dem]

13. Then who are the people electing them that are not being served?

If no one expects the repubs to actually represent the people they are supposed to be serving, then who are the people electing them?

[Yooperman]

14. Well... how do you think?

I have friends that are life long republicans. They vote for republicans blindly. My father in law was one of these types. NOTHING could be said to change his mind to vote for a Dem.

Even now... with Gov. Snyder cutting his pension, he says if the changes Snyder is enacting had been done years ago, we wouldn't be in the mess we are in now. Without any thought that if then Gov. Granholm had cut into his pension, he would have had a holy fit.

I just have given up on trying to reason with them. Just to let you know ... I have written my Congressmen and Senators in the past... my rep was Congressmen Dave Camp... he voted with chimp 99% of the time. His nickname was "Rubberstamp Dave Camp".

Just sayin.... our two party system doesn't work. period.

Peace

YM

[RKP5637]

20. Similar situation here, see #7. I used to be naive enough to think the

system worked, that the R's were interested in brokering solutions, but I've given up on the letter writing / telephone route. The only effective means IMO is to defeat them at the polls. That said, IMO, our system is broken.

How a democracy can work with all of the money involved now, corporations considered to be people, congress basically bribed, much of the wealth in this country held by several hundred people, two parties that can not broker a deal ... it's all rigged against "we the people."

[Dragonfli]

10. I can't wait to actually ask for more free trade, I am calling NOW!! /nt

[Bluebear]

16. Don't forget to request "modest" Medicare adjustments too!!

:bounce:

[Dragonfli]

17. Do you think it would be too much to ask to defund SS while I am at it?

I was also hoping for those tax cuts for businesses and more deregulation!!

We all know now that taxes and regulation are why they continue to hire in china.
Free trade may be a good way to get back at China, I hear that those Koreans make a sneaker really cheep.

[Shagbark Hickory]

15. I cannot, in good conscience, do that.

Because the "jobs" plan goes against my socialist morals and principles.

Asking a retubby to vote for a retubby plan is just too weird. Sorry.

[Dragonfli]

18. You are missing the point, we want them to vote for Dem Rethug policies (makes all the difference)

[Shagbark Hickory]

21. What difference would it make? In what ways would it be different from the Romney jobs plan?

[Dragonfli]

22. I am not really sure, but everybody is saying it is the Dem thing to do, we must support anything

Our betters are selling, after all they wear a D next to their names.

It makes war (multiple perpetual wars) good
trickle down good
free trade good
defunding SS good
tax breaks as a job program good
deregulation good
wireless wiretapping good
rendition good
placing an elite above the law good
raising the age of medicare good
mandated insurance rackets good
lowering cost of living increases via chained CPI good
pretty much any Heritage Foundation ideas good
Pretty much any Chamber of Commerce ideas good
ignoring habeas corpus good
austerity during a depression double plus good

IT'S all good man, its Democratic now!

[Shagbark Hickory]

23. Oh but of course! Silly me.

I need to get with the program.

[blindpig]

19. Hard to think of a greater waste of time

The so-called jobs proposal sucks out loud and will bring little relief to the working class but is another gift to the capitalists.

Anyways, I'll give you Demint's and Gowdy's numbers if ya wanna call for me.