The Blue America/BlogPac SCHIP ad we didn't have to run! And the New one that's running now!
By John Amato Tuesday Oct 16, 2007 3:10pm
Here's the ad we were going to run against Baron Hill, but he changed his vote in a timely fashion. And here's the new one that's running in the Macon Telegraph. Digby wrote the ad for us and as usual does an incredible job. Howie says:
The good news is that the ad you've been helping us finance ran. Macon is in the heart of the district and the paper covers a 60 mile radius from there, especially in Bibb and Houston Counties. The ad will be seen by approximately 106,000 of Marshall's constituents.
We're working on a few other projects at this moment...
Please donate if you can to our Blue America PAC...We're trying to raise 10,000 to pay for it...
Bill Scher has a good take on what we're doing. Check out an article on us in the National Journal: BLOGGERS VS BELTWAY: The New Whips? (scroll down) We're the new Whips!:
In an effort to help Congressional Dems pass SCHIP, the netroots are stepping up pressure on the five House Dem who voted with GOPers against extending the program...read on
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Why ask why?
Brilliant ad!
Why does one say "political malpractice" and the other one just says "malpractice"?
I think it's about time that mainstream America (formerly known as "the left") started punching the bullies (still known as "the right") in their big, ugly faces.
Today it's about health care for kids. Hopefully, soon, it will be a serious demand for health care for ALL.
These are some sandpaper rough days to be a republican. The inbred NASCAR fans back in Iowa, Texas, Colorado, Florida, and other primeval palookavilles of this great country are wearing paper sacks over their heads in shame because their team is getting bitch-slapped out there. You can throw a rock (and make it a big one!) in any seedy public lavatory throughout the country and hit at least one deeply conservative, self-righteous, holier-than-thou congressman, senator, or mega church pastor, leaving the true deceivers/believers to wonder--WTF?
"Oh heal them, Lord, in the beautiful blood of the lamb!" they beseech in prayer, "I heard voices, and I heeded the call, as I selected these, my public servants, these Godly soldiers, these nadirs of probity, to represent both me and your will and enforce that same unchanging certain correctness on my town, my state, and this whole nation. I empowered them so that they might smite the harlot-filled Babylon of Hollywood, so that they might purge the filthy restrooms of various Gomorrahs throughout the country, so that they might force the accursed liberals and other fornicators from the dank dens where they blaspheme. I trusted them to raise high the blow torch of decency, restore the fear of god, and enshrine your holy will in law, by this holy Jihad!"
Yet, it is dumbfounding to consider how many professed conservatives have been violating the traditional values they profess to hold dear. For every knucklehead you recognize--Larry Craig, David Vitter, Ted Haggard, Ralph Reed, Jack Abramoff, Tom Foley, Tom DeLay, Randy Cunningham, John Doolittle--there are hundreds at state and local levels whose hypocritical indiscretions never make it CNN. And don’t even get me started on all those pedophilic Catholic priests out there. They count too.
Isn't it incredibly obvious that those who align themselves with social conservatism are far more likely to engage in inappropriate behavior than those who call themselves liberals. I’m not talking rocket science here.
We all have urges, some we’d prefer not to see the light of day, but these are people who seemingly lack the skills of introspection, or even common sense. And along with the obvious repression they struggle with, the repercussions of their stunted emotional state are likely to be exacerbated because the same factors that make self-examination impossible--loveless parenting, strict religious upbringing, for example--also tend to magnify their less-savory natural urges.
And that is the reason so many conservatives, doubtful of their own ability to control their sleazy desires, and projecting their own failings and bewilderment on the rest of humanity, come to be what they are. That is why they push for strictness in the home and to have morality rammed into law. They recognize a looming menace from which we must be protected, but cannot grasp that the foundation of the danger lies within themselves.
This is not to suggest that the majority of those who appear to be values-fixated Republicans are in fact pedophiles-in-waiting, repressed homosexuals, or thieves, waiting for opportunity? They are probably generally decent, doing their best to get by and perhaps willing to live and let live. But it also means that there is something in their experience with their family or community that guides them to believe that people are not to be trusted to contain their seamy urges.
It is not hard to identify those who pose the greatest danger to us, those who are incapable of self-examination, and are oblivious to their own transparency, for they are the ones that shout the loudest, spew warnings of moral rot and disobedience, that seek to exploit the fear they provoke to advance their own power and influence, that seek to raise an army of the self-righteous to march on the seat of wickedness and double standards. Imagine their shock when they realize that the seat is made of porcelain. That they themselves are the one besieged and the army they raised waits for them, right outside the stall door.
Why are these "democrats" whom do not support SCHIP from ths south. Wouldn't many of their consituents be most likely to benefit? Are they Liebermans in disguise???
Are these some of the dems that Rohm or whomever found in the south that were democrat lite but could win the election last year?
Jim Marshall (GA), Gene Taylor (MS), Bob Etheridge (NC), and Mike McIntyre (NC).
"I don't see any method at all."
Now that this victory is nearly at hand, thought should be given to another way we can tax the poor to give benefits to middle-class children while further enriching insurance companies in the process. After all, the poor can't possibly fight it and the kids are so cute (and white).
It's the Telegraph not the Telegram.
When I worked at remodelling the Macon Mall and sat to lunch in the food court any number of different folks would join me. They are not as snooty as Atlantans and deserve better than an emasculated congressman. Hopefully the real people of the South will choose real representation some day.
Words can't express how awesome Blue America is with these ads. I hope people can donate
I find these ads disturbing, using emotional knee-jerk sentiment rather than an already well-supported idea to make an impact. I like the activism and the focus, but this reduces the credibility of something that is already very credible in the eyes of most. To convince one politician by use of deceptive messages in an open forum is to emotionally deceive the public into pressuring the representative to change support because they believe that the politician opposes the pressured change for reasons of personal character.
in the "game" republicans play, this is just good political strategy, ... that of character defamation and attack ads. To form a stable socially-funded public cooperative like an SCHIP program, public trust is needed, these types of ads undermine that. Schip is not an end-all to what is really needed. It's not worth wasting trust in the bigger picture for what the SHIP program offers now, which is not even close to the level of health care Americans want to have, as expressed in polls.
I'm all for kid's health care, but funding it with yet another cigarette tax is cowardly bullshit.
Like "I believe in it enough to make him/her pay for it."
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Gregg @ 12:
Another Bush Dog flipped today so now we're down to two...I thank you for your candid argument, but I disagree...
Blue Lensman @ 8:
"Errand boy(s) sent by the Grocery Clerk, to collect the bill."
"Trillions for my theiving greedhead corporate-crony friends on Wallstreet and at Haliburton; but not a nickel for the public good!" "And that goes for poor children too!"
Ole dubya is a real piece of work ain't he? How could anyone side with this clown?
John Amato @ 14:
What is the count now?
I've said it before, I'll say it again. as a constituent of Jim Marshal, (I live in dublin, GA) trust me if Jim Marshal is not our reprasentative, you won't like the alternative.
The last election my phone rang off the hook with recorded messages from the repug candidate telling me how "Libral" Jim Marshal is. You have to know the make-up of his district to understand, but that plays well around here. These people think Lush Rimjob is THE last word on ANY subject.
BTW Marshal just barely won the last election.
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