A snail's pace at our expense. Republicans have blocked health care reform for a decade and a half. We have to end their influence and control the message. "The Republicans claim the health insurance reform debate has been moving at lightning speed. In fact for 15 years, it's hardly moved at all. Now the Republicans say Congress should slow down? That's because when something goes slow enough it's easy to kill it dead in its tracks."It's government of the people for the people. The bought-off Democrats need to be brought inline, represent their constituents and not corporations running up profits, and pass some meaningful reform. Source: Political Wire

This is what goes for "hard hitting" in the land of Democratic consultants and big-money organizations. A snail. It goes slowly. Then it gets stepped on. So health care reform had better not go slowly too, or else it'll get stepped on. Get it? Watch the newest ad from our groups, then read my thoughts below. Are you motivated now? Do you think members of Congress who gets millions from the health insurance and pharmaceutical companies are going to think "wow, a snail, I guess I'd better ignore the millions of bucks I'm going from the lobbyists"? Do you think Americans, many of whom are under the false delusion that their own health coverage is actually good (since they haven't yet had a serious illness), will watch this snail being stepped on and suddenly realize that their own health insurance isn't as good as they think it is? Will the snail put the fear of God into the Blue Dogs, and Max Baucus, and make them finally support their own party? Do you think this snail is making Republicans quake in their boots? How many times do we have to hire the same people to run these same organizations, and then screw up a major issue, before things change in Washington? The White House has a 12m person email list at their disposal (yes, I know - Organizing for America (formerly Obama for America) isn't run by the White House, wink wink). Why aren't we winning this? Democrats have a majority in both houses of Congress, including a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate - why aren't they winning this? We're told that the smartest Democrats in the world inhabit the White House, the House, the Senate, and our liberal national organizations. So why aren't we winning this? It certainly doesn't feel like we're winning, nor is the quiet scuttlebutt among Democrats in town that we're winning. Where are the ads and the campaigns calling on Congress to give up it's cushy health care if they won't give Americans the same fabulous coverage at dirt cheap rates? Oh that's right, running a campaign that w...

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A rather gruesome new spot from Americans United for Change, running on D.C. cable, ridicules Republican calls for slowing down the debate on health

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