The Stakeholder

GOP Congressclowns

Posted by Greg Berlin
Sep 25, 2009

Paul Begala just sent this message to DCCC supporters:

Friend--

"You Lie!" That was one Republican Congressclown's response to President Obama's call for action on health insurance reform.

Classy.

But now the very liars who heckled President Obama for calling them out are raising millions of dollars off of their rude, dishonest attack - and they're even claiming victory in the media for it!

They understand that this is the make or break month for health insurance reform. There's only four more days left to act. We're $531,161 shy of beating them by passing our million dollar goal.

September 30th marks an important deadline where the amount of money Democrats have in the bank will be a judgment on President Obama's support of health care.

Contribute $5, $10 or more today to our Million Dollar Match. For every dollar you give before Wednesday at Midnight, a group of Democrats will match it with $2 of their own, tripling your impact.

Status quo defenders from Joe "You Lie" Wilson to Glenn Beck, to Michele Bachmann are frothing at the mouth to beat us on Wednesday's midnight deadline. They know the media is closely watching to see who has the critical momentum going into the home stretch on health insurance reform.

If we don't act, the Republican Congressclowns will do something that's not funny: Succeed in continuing a status quo in which greedy insurance companies pad their profits by dumping their customers when they get sick, denying coverage to women who want to get mammograms, and even using something like a pre-existing case of acne as an excuse to refuse coverage for a cancer patient's lifesaving treatment for aggressive breast cancer. We need reform and we need it now.

Show the world that President Obama has the momentum in the fight for health insurance reform. Contribute $5, $10 or more today to our Million Dollar Match. For every dollar you give before Wednesday at Midnight, a group of Democrats will match it with $2 of their own, tripling your impact.

Next year could be a very tough midterm election. Some experts are saying we should be frightened. I'm not frightened, but I am determined. I am motivated. I am passionately committed to seeing the Democratic vision of health insurance reform become a reality. And it turns out that the best policy is also the best politics: If we stand with Pres. Obama and the Democrats in Congress today, voters will stand by them in 2010.

Let's gear up today and help President Obama finish the job on health insurance reform to show Joe Wilson, Glenn Beck, and all the rest of those status-quo loving insurance company suck-ups -- the Republican Congressclowns -- that now is indeed the season for action.

Thanks,

Paul Begala

P.S. All eyes are on Wednesday's midnight fundraising deadline. The media is closely watching to see who has the critical momentum going into the home stretch on health insurance reform. Contribute today to our Million Dollar Match. For every dollar you give before Wednesday at Midnight, a group of Democrats will match it with $2 of their own, tripling your impact.