New Ad Campaign to Target Grassley in Iowa and DC. Help Get It On The Air!
By Susie Madrak Monday Aug 31, 2009 6:00pm
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America has a new ad campaign aimed at moving Sen. Chuck Grassley off the dime and get him to support healthcare reform. If you can, donate here:
Meet Kevin from Iowa. Kevin voted for Reagan...and Nixon...and George W. Bush...and Republican Senator Chuck Grassley. Kevin supports the public health insurance option. And in our new TV ad -- called "Main Street Bipartisanship" -- Kevin calls out Chuck Grassley for being out-of-touch with voters back home. It's powerful.
Real health care reform is in danger right now because some Democratic senators like Montana's Max Baucus crave "bipartisanship." But in DC, "bipartisanship" doesn't mean policies that Republican and Democratic voters back home support. It means "whatever watered-down reform insurance companies will let Republican senators vote for."
Chuck Grassley, the main Senate Republican negotiator, has taken over $2.9 million from health and insurance interests that oppose reform. He's also said he won't support a public option because it would beat private insurance in the marketplace! So why are some Democrats still negotiating with Grassley and letting him water down reform -- instead of going on offense? One word: "bipartisanship."
We're redefining "bipartisanship" to mean what mainstream voters want. Thanks for being a bold progressive.
-- Stephanie Taylor, PCCC co-founder
P.S. According to a national Quinnipiac poll in August, 40% of Republicans and 64% of independents support the public option. In Iowa, the latest Des Moines Register poll showed 36% of Republicans and 56% of independents. For context, 36% of Senate Republicans would be 14 votes -- huge "bipartisanship."
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grassley needs some....
I hope to see the day when 1 republican vote is 33% of their caucus.
18 of the 40 Republicans in the Senate are up for re-election in 2010.
* Richard Shelby of Alabama
* Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
* John McCain of Arizona
* Mel Martinez of Florida -- will not run
* Johnny Isakson of Georgia
* Mike Crapo of Idaho
* Chuck Grassley of Iowa
* Sam Brownback of Kansas -- will not run
* Jim Bunning of Kentucky
* David Vitter of Louisiana
* Kit Bond of Missouri -- will not run
* Judd Gregg of New Hampshire
* Richard Burr of North Carolina
* George Voinovich of Ohio -- will not run
* Tom Coburn of Oklahoma
* Jim DeMint of South Carolina
* John Thune of South Dakota
* Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas -- may retire to run for Gov.
* Bob Bennett of Utah
That's 18 of them. Almost half the 40 Republicans in the Senate.
Oh, really?
Just goes to show that there's no shaming some people. You'd think using the services of a prostitute and wearing a diaper would sour the electorate on this 'family values' hypocrite. Obviously the average Louisiana Republican voter is much more broad minded than I ever would have imagined.
getting a standing O at his townhall in Kenner on cspan 1.
Maybe they were glad he left the diaper at home.
Grassley's mind is made up and closed on this matter.
is a repuglyKKKan. his mind wasn't even part of the equation. all about him was certain before the bipartisanshit was started.
But the voters in his state should be the real targets of this ad.
This is a good ad and more ads like this need to get out there. I will toss some cash to this group..this kinda of ad needs national exposure, just change the name of the Rethug and the amt they took from Big Pharma or the health insurance industry.
This ad has little or nothing to do with changing Grassley's mind. It's aimed at his constituents.
DFA is once again doing some wise spending here. Republicans need to know that there are other Republicans out there, just like them, who are hurting and want decent access to health care. Democrats need to know that not all Republicans are the enemy--many have simply been isolated by their party into thinking that asking for health care is some kind of sign of disloyalty. This ad dispells that myth.
I've been waiting a long time for an ad like this, and I maintain that once people of all ideologies realize that they're not alone in this--that they have allies from all over the political spectrum in helping them get access and have their costs met--they will unite against the Grassleys and the Nelsons and the Baucuses and the Liebermans and will DEMAND that their elected representatives do their bidding for a change. Or there will be hell to pay.
we should all kick grassley in the
nuts,but we would probably injure his ankles....
kicking at a moving sagging sack target.....
Democrats poised to lose 20 to 50 seats in House: analysts
Democrats are in hot water, according to political analysts quoted in Monday's Politico.
According to two key observers, Charlie Cook and 538.com's Nate Silver, Democrats are poised to lose "double-digit" seats in the House amid an increasingly bitter political climate.
Silver apparently stunned a liberal audience at the blogger convention Netroots Nation earlier this month, saying that the Republicans have a 25 to 33 percent chance of retaking the House. For both observers, such a happenstance seems unlikely, though first- and second-term Democrats appear particularly vulnerable.
That's kind of funny. All those god damned blue dogs that Rahm got elected will end up losing their seats because they acted like repukes.
Well, that's their problem; the bastards can't say no to a bribe. I wouldn't shed a tear if 20 of those bluedog assholes lost. Might be the kick in the nuts the rest of them need; and we would still have a huge majority.
Personally, I think Nate is full of shit on this one. The repukes have absolutely nothing to offer the american people. To think they could suddenly win 40 seats and retake the House is ludicrous. Most of the seats the repigs lost to the dems, are as safe as the repuke seats in the old democratic south.
Frankly, I think by next November, the democrats will pick-up House seats, and take another 4-7 Senate seats. If they weren't so damned stupid, they could have won even more and finished the GOPer's off for good.
..coming from the likes of FOX "news" and C(orporate)NN. These 24-7 cable networks might as well be extended Republican ad campaigns.
Hell, if a Democrat walked on water to save your family from drowning, Wolf Blitzer would complain that his hands were damp. Glenn Beck would call it witchcraft and start building a fire.
If a Republican raped your sister, Blitzer would wonder out loud if she asked for it. Beck would insist that she should be grateful.
I know, I know.
But by next November, the geriatric Fox crowd will have dwindled by another 5 - 8%, and no matter how much shit they pump out on the tube, the demographic changes are not going to be kind to the repukes.
Politico? LOL
You might as well watch Beck, read Drudge and listen to Limbaugh.
The Politico's biggest boosters are Matt Drudge and George W. Bush, and it is run by CEO Frederick J. Ryan Jr., former Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, and currently chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation.
http://archive.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/20...
do you think any of the brain dead people out there will see it for what it is. repugs try to put there shit here all the time.. Question to repugs,WTF, eating shit from the elected corporate repugs for 8 years was not to mush for you. you want more.
He said that was the worst-case scenario, which he didn't think was likely. But the corporate media has jumped all over it.
I can make any poll and make it turn out the way I want. and the health care plan has death plans for old people!
Corrente here
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