OFA doesn't want ME to fight...

[cameozalaznick]

I just got an email from Mitch Stweart with OFA with the subject line: You fight, we'll fight

It goes on to ask me to volunteer hours to campaign for members of Congress if they will back health care reform. I sent them the following reply.

Are you kidding me, with this?

I don't even like the current health care "reform" bill. It mandates that I purchase coverage, but doesn't contain a public option. What's wrong with this bill is that the Democrats STARTED in a compromised position. You don't do that. You start with the impossible and then negotiate something that's untenable to both sides. Then you know you've got common ground. When both sides hate it.... Oh, wait a minute...

Anyway, I'm ready to throw all the bums out. The Republicans in Congress are mean-spirited and hypocritical and Democrats in Congress are spineless and mealy-mouthed. I would no more support any member of Congress right now, with the possible exception of Russ Feingold. I think we could go out and pick 535 people AT RANDOM and get better representation than we're getting.

And why was Bush able to cram through his regressive agenda without a super-majority, but Democrats couldn't even pass anything even with it?

Trust me, you don't want me to fight right now, because I don't think you and I are fighting for the same thing. I can't stomach the implicit racism of the tea partiers and I do believe that the Democrats inherited a terrible mess, but I've seen no leadership to turn this mutha around.

The corporate robber-barons, with the aid of our elected and appointed representatives (I'm talking to you, SCOTUS, I'm lookin' at you Congress, and you too, Mr. President are also complicit), have robbed and raped and pillaged this country until I don't even recognize it anymore.

They've hoovered up all the wealth in the form of ginormus bonuses for themselves, they shipped all the jobs overseas with the help of tax loopholes, they've helped themselves to lax regulation by writing laws that are advantageous to their interests and now they have the temerity to wonder where all their customers are.

And where is the progressive agenda we've been waiting for? The one we campaigned to get?

For instance:

Where is the Apollo-like program for energy independence? Where is the public option? Why doesn't my city yet have a decent mass-transit system? When are we as a society going to get serious about recognizing the correlation between our poor health and our eating habits and farming practices? When are we going to re-institute the Fairness Doctrine and Equal Time Provisions? When are we going to re-regulate Wall Street? When are we going to put "too big to fail means not too big to regulate" into practice. When are we going to stop consuming so danged much corn?

I'll fight. When you give me something to fight for.

Sincerely,
Your former supporter

[county worker]

1. I got the same email, I volunteered to man the phones, I won't call you promise!

I'm giving time for a insurance reform bill not a health care bill.

[cameozalaznick]

3. I didn't get far enough into the pedging part to know that they

wanted you to volunteer for different things.

[county worker]

4. They want phone callers, letters to the editor, talk to your family and neighbors.

I did this during the election campaign and got an invitation to the inauguration. I don't expect to get anything this time and the invitation was a complete surprise.

Sometimes you just have to get off the internet and do something!

[cameozalaznick]

5. Yeah, I did it during the campaign too,

but I'm not doing it now.

[AllentownJake]

2. I wonder how much their email list has shrunk from 2008 nt.

[asdjrocky]

6. No longer a member.

No way they can further their business friendly crap in my name.

[nashville_brook]

7. wow -- they're a little slow on the uptake there with the "lets get out there and support HCR"

i took my name off that list not too long ago for this very reason.

knfnr.

[Raven]

8. I had the same reaction...YOU fight, then I'LL fight. Jeesh!

[jberryhill]

9. I'm an f-ing retard /nt

[mdmc]

10. $