GOP looks short on repeal vote https://t.co/MD1Mrks5G4
— POLITICO Pulse (@POLITICOPulse) April 27, 2017
Keep on swimming, keep on calling
Update 1
Keep on calling:
Mario Diaz-Balart, who was a yes on previous AHCA, now wavering with MacArthur amendment.
"At this stage, I'm not seeing much that I like."
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) April 27, 2017
The vulnerable Republicans are getting squeezed hard, so time to pop them like a zit three days before prom.
PaulWartenberg
If you can’t call the DC hotline, call your congresscritter’s district office.
If you can’t call the congresscritter’s distric office, call the nearest exclusive gated golf club.
Trentrunner
So, in this metaphor, the GOP is
1) Dory
2) Nemo’s Dad
3) the billions of gallons of dissolved fecal matter spread throughout the oceans
(select only one)
hedgehog the occasional commenter
Done (DeGette, CO-1.) Got right through to her DC office. She’s a staunch opponent of ACHA but it never hurts to encourage :) Also, the more calls they get the better.
Starfish
CO-3 and CO-6 have the reps that need to be hounded to the heat death of the universe. Please call if you live in those districts.
Weaselone
@Trentrunner:
3.
Democrats are Nemo’s father. David Anderson is Dory.
Gin & Tonic
Looks like another bad day for Mike Flynn.
Thoroughly Pizzled
I will thank my members of Congress today. They’re good people.
Starfish
If you guys do Facebook, here are Democrats talking about the details of the swamp.
ThresherK
Odd to have a swimming metaphor without Rikyrah here.
I will thank my Congresscritters also. I’m tempted to tell one of them how glad I am that Joe Lieberman got kicked upstairs so a read Democrat could represent us.
tobie
I just called Andy Harris’ office. He’s a member of the freedom caucus representing MD-1. The office is spending no time on calls. They just verify you’re a constituent in his district and then take a tally of yea or nay on AHCA.
The Thin Black Duke
@Gin & Tonic: Oh? What happened?
Marcopolo
I now call the congresscritters regularly every week (more if necessary). The D senator & rep get thanked mostly, the R senator gets lectured & threatened (fwiw but he just won reelection). I am now starting to call my state rep & senator focusing on getting Medicaid expansion (am hoping MO dems line up on this).
Watching House & Senate Dems on cable now bringing the heat in a joint press conference re Flynn & the Russian election investigation. Go Cummings! Would like to see this get lots of new attention on Trump’s 100th day.
Jeffro
I think it’s great – the Freedumb Caucus is so rabid, they’re driving away the “moderate” members of the GOP in the House, and anything they manage to stitch together in all likelihood would not get passed in the Senate.
Meanwhile, Trump is so all over the place that no one knows what he’s for, what he’s against, what he’s serious about and what he isn’t. He’s Gonna Repeal NAFTA! …until he isn’t. He’s Gonna Cut Taxes Like Crazy! …except that’s not going to fly. He’s Gonna Repeal Obamacare! …um.
Governing by executive order and tweet. Golfing all the time. Grifting like all hell. Let us know when you’re ready, GOP…
amk
Nicole
If it hasn’t been mentioned here before, Resistbot will fax messages for you. If you text RESIST to 50409, it’ll take you through the set-up process. It will fax whatever you text to it to both of your Senators and your Congresscritter. I have Schumer, Gillenbrand and Espaillat, so I’m fairly confident of their views on the ACHA, but it doesn’t hurt to be able to tell them to keep fighting the good fight.
Major Major Major Major
Why would the “moderates” support this? It’s the same as the previous bill but with even more of the stuff they say they’re against. Political pressure, I guess.
Tracy Ratcliff
@Nicole: Which I find great for me, since social-anxiety me hates phone calls.
Mnemosyne
If you ever find yourself at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Orlando, there is a full-on Broadway-style musical of Finding Nemo that’s pretty cool. It was (co-?) written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, which is how she got the gig to write the music for Frozen with her husband.
rikyrah
if you’ve called your Congresscritter, try a few of these:
These are the GOPers whose district was won by Hillary Clinton in 2016 – call them:
California 10 R+1 Jeff Denham
California 21 D+2 David Valadao
Arizona 2 R+3 Martha McSally
California 25 R+3 Steve Knight
California 39 R+5 Ed Royce
California 45 R+7 Mimi Walters
California 48 R+7 Dana Rohrabacher
California 49 R+4 Darrell Issa
Colorado 6 D+1 Mike Coffman
Florida 26 EVEN Carlos Curbelo
Florida 27 R+1 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Illinois 6 R+4 Peter Roskam
Kansas 3 R+6 Kevin Yoder
Minnesota 3 R+2 Erik Paulsen
New Jersey 7 R+6 Leonard Lance
Pennsylvania 6 R+2 Ryan Costello
Pennsylvania 7 R+2 Patrick Meehan
Texas 7 R+13 John Culberson
Texas 23 R+3 Will Hurd
Texas 32 R+10 Pete Sessions
Virginia 10 R+2 Barbara Comstock
Washington 8 R+1 Dave Reichert
rikyrah
@amk:
That’s why her phony azz was booed in Germany
rikyrah
@Nicole:
Thanks. Will spread the word.
Nicole
@Tracy Ratcliff: You and me both. I get nervous and talk too fast on the phone. And since it’s a fax, they get an actual, physical copy. They also let you know how many attempts it takes to get through, or if they are unable to.
Nicole
@rikyrah: Excellent. It also sends reminders which is good motivation to send faxes out frequently.
Amir Khalid
@Mnemosyne:
Ah good, you’re here. I have a question for you:
I saw the live-action Beauty and The Beast, and I loved it. It makes the title characters (and others, too) much richer and more three-dimensional than the cartoon did, by filling out their back stories. The extra running time was well-used, I would say. I was wondering, though, if any of the new music in it originated in the stage-musical version.
Mnemosyne
@Amir Khalid:
I’m basically stuck on the outside thanks to siloing at the Giant Evil Corporation, but as far as I can tell, all the new songs were written specifically for the film by Tim Rice and Alan Menken. The storyline of the Broadway show and the live action film are a little different, so Menken said they had to write new songs to accommodate those changes.
themann1086
My mom just got off the phone with a Meehan (PA-7) staffer who says he is a “NO” with the bill+amendment. They definitely don’t have the votes if he’s a No.
artem1s
@Major Major Major Major:
I doubt they will. I really think this is weak demonstration by ZEGS that he and the Freedum Caucus has Trump under their thumb and the mods better close ranks or they will get primaried. It’s a roll call to see who is drifting. Some of the mods will be more afraid of their constituents and some of them will be more afraid of being left out in the cold. Ryan won round one when he canceled the first vote and got rid of Bannon. But I think he’s more interested in passing his skinny budget than killing ACA.
Frankensteinbeck
@tobie:
Presumably, as a Freedom Caucus member, the more his constituents hate the bill, the more he wants to vote for it. Theirs is an ethos of spite.
@artem1s:
I don’t know. Ryan wants BADLY to destroy the safety net. He’s dreamed of it all his life. The first AHCA was his creation, his baby, which is why nobody but him got to see it until a week before the vote. It was mostly a laundry list of things he loves, especially fatally wounding Medicaid and vastly lowering taxes on the rich. I see this more as ZEGS giving in to pressure and making one more flailing attempt to pass his dream bill that fucks over the country.
Sunny Raines
wow! that’s at least comment of the month, maybe more. Hysterical and so apropo.