nicki
10-21-2008, 01:17 PM
Most of us live in Areas where we are represented by F rated politicians, so sending them letters, calling their offices about our gun rights falls on deaf ears and even if we get responses, they are form letters that are usually off topic.
The Dems are going to have a majority in the Congress, the Senate and unless there is divine intervention, the presidency also.
We contact them with HANDWRITTEN letters or phone calls. I'm sure alot of us are carrying those unlimited cell phone plans, we should use them.
What I suggest is we bombard them that they need to take action on real issues that effect "working families", take their campaigning rhetoric and use it against them.
What we do in a "nutshell" is tell them we expect them to focus on the real problems of the country that need fixing and to stay away from all divisive issues, especially anything that can result in the Republicans gaining back power.
Something I would say for example.
I am a Union member and I am glad we finally can work to get the needs of American families taken care off. I am really concerned about creating affordable and mobile health care for all Americans.
No one should go broke because they got sick and had huge medical bills that they can't pay.
The Medical Industry is going to fight tooth and nail against reform, but this is something I we can't back down on, we must make changes.
I am going to beg you to stay away from controversial social issues and use your influence to make sure bills are not even introduced.
The Republican party which is the Party of the Wealthy and the Corporate Elite uses these "wedge issues" to attract support.
People who vote Republican are blind to the Party's hostility to working families because the Republicans paint the Democrats as hostile to traditional American values.
We have had a divided country under Bush, we need a united country.
We have made inroads into traditional Republican areas and if we do the right things, we will hold onto our majorities we will be able to help working families on things like health care, education.
We can get a energy policy that gets us of our oil addiction while protecting the enviroment and not rewarding the greedy oil companies.
Bill Clinton tried to move too fast during his first 2 years in office, Republicans accused him of nationalizing health care, raising taxes and banning guns.
Quite frankly, it will take us 10 years of more to clean up Bush's mess.
Thank you.
Your thoughts guys, perhaps we can create some boilerplates on a range of issues.
If the Dems are getting constantly hammered by "their issues" and if they are getting constantly nagged that certain "social issues" will cost them getting progress on the "real issues", we can keep them off balance.
Obama made a comment that even if he wanted to push gun control, he can't because he doesn't have the votes. Let's keep it that way.
Speaking of Obama. A string of letters congratulating him on his "victory" and a plea to him not to repeat Clinton's mistakes of Gun Control and dropping his pants may gain some ground.
Nicki
The Dems are going to have a majority in the Congress, the Senate and unless there is divine intervention, the presidency also.
We contact them with HANDWRITTEN letters or phone calls. I'm sure alot of us are carrying those unlimited cell phone plans, we should use them.
What I suggest is we bombard them that they need to take action on real issues that effect "working families", take their campaigning rhetoric and use it against them.
What we do in a "nutshell" is tell them we expect them to focus on the real problems of the country that need fixing and to stay away from all divisive issues, especially anything that can result in the Republicans gaining back power.
Something I would say for example.
I am a Union member and I am glad we finally can work to get the needs of American families taken care off. I am really concerned about creating affordable and mobile health care for all Americans.
No one should go broke because they got sick and had huge medical bills that they can't pay.
The Medical Industry is going to fight tooth and nail against reform, but this is something I we can't back down on, we must make changes.
I am going to beg you to stay away from controversial social issues and use your influence to make sure bills are not even introduced.
The Republican party which is the Party of the Wealthy and the Corporate Elite uses these "wedge issues" to attract support.
People who vote Republican are blind to the Party's hostility to working families because the Republicans paint the Democrats as hostile to traditional American values.
We have had a divided country under Bush, we need a united country.
We have made inroads into traditional Republican areas and if we do the right things, we will hold onto our majorities we will be able to help working families on things like health care, education.
We can get a energy policy that gets us of our oil addiction while protecting the enviroment and not rewarding the greedy oil companies.
Bill Clinton tried to move too fast during his first 2 years in office, Republicans accused him of nationalizing health care, raising taxes and banning guns.
Quite frankly, it will take us 10 years of more to clean up Bush's mess.
Thank you.
Your thoughts guys, perhaps we can create some boilerplates on a range of issues.
If the Dems are getting constantly hammered by "their issues" and if they are getting constantly nagged that certain "social issues" will cost them getting progress on the "real issues", we can keep them off balance.
Obama made a comment that even if he wanted to push gun control, he can't because he doesn't have the votes. Let's keep it that way.
Speaking of Obama. A string of letters congratulating him on his "victory" and a plea to him not to repeat Clinton's mistakes of Gun Control and dropping his pants may gain some ground.
Nicki