Via Moe, who adds:
I heartily endorse the notion, with a couple of suggestions:
• Bring a video camera. If you don’t have one, this one looks cheap enough.
• Bring a friend to hold the video camera while you talk.
• Walk right up to your representative, identify yourself clearly, loudly, and politely, make sure that you say the magic words “…and I live in your district…,” and ask him or her whether they read the ‘health care bill’ in full before they voted on it.
• Remember: this question has a yes or no answer.
• You are not required to accept anything else than yes or no.
• You are not required to participate in an argument on the merits of health care.
• You are not required to tolerate their attempts to change the subject.
• You are not required to not make this politely, yet firmly clear to your legislator.
• This is why you need the second person, so that you can concentrate on the matter at hand and let him or her worry about camera angles and whatnot.And, lastly:
• If they [our dear legislatithings] actually wimp out and recess before voting on the bill, change the question to “Will you read the ‘health care’ bill in full before you vote on it, etc, etc?” Again, it’s a yes or no question – and for this one, if they give you an attitude you may smile sweetly and remind your legislator of the nortorious fact that nobody in the Democratic Party read the stimulus and/or cap and trade before they voted for it.
Hope this helps. Have fun!
Moe Lane
PS: Do this all politely.
Oh, and: Moe cross-posted this at Red State. Which is where you should go to read the latest on healthcare “reform,” including this story about how Oregon is suggesting assisted suicide rather than cancer treatments for the middle-aged.
Yeah. And you wonder why the Pacific Northwest is off of my “possible retirement” options. I’ll take the desert, thankyouverymuch.
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Why is it you people are so interested in continuing enriching the insurance companies while all of our parents die bankrupt in nursing homes? Is dying poor really that appealing?
“Is dying poor really that appealing?”
It beats living poor.
Ozzy