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JNelson6563

(28,151 posts)
Thu May 4, 2017, 08:22 PM May 2017

Great advice on what we need to do now!

Found this on KOS...

If House GOP succeeds in passing #TrumpCare tonight (or any day), the public's IMMEDIATE response will massively shape what happens next.

The biggest risk: the vote gets hailed as a breakthrough victory for Trump and the GOP, praised by conservative groups... boom, momentum.

It will be tempting for activists to immediately swing their focus over to pressuring the Senate. Don't do it. Job one is BLOWBACK.

Most of all, swing Senators will be watching to see what kind of political price GOP reps pay for voting to uninsure their constituents.

Citizens' jobs will be to make clear that voting for AHCA is politically toxic. Career suicide. A highly visible, public firestorm. Rage.

If the House passes TrumpCare, every Republican member of Congress has to feel like they're walking into a political buzz saw.

Their phones should ring off the hook. Their district offices should be jammed. Town halls? Furious overflow crowds, chanting "SHAME."

The intensity and visibility of response to the House vote will define the news cycle and the Senate's willingness to touch this thing.

So—if we lose the vote, don't mourn. Fight. Crucify the House. Only after pulverizing the House GOP, turn, eyes ablaze, to the Senate.


http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/4/1658828/-Job-no-1-for-the-resistance-Make-the-GOP-suffer-the-most-brutal-healthcare-blowback-imaginable
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Great advice on what we need to do now! (Original Post) JNelson6563 May 2017 OP
Hope everone noticed that Wellstone ruled May 2017 #1
That's right. JNelson6563 May 2017 #2
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
1. Hope everone noticed that
Thu May 4, 2017, 08:58 PM
May 2017

any Republican Congressman that was considered threatened by the coming elections,was allowed to vote no. But,hey,we got your name anyway and your Party affiliation.

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