Attitude and Actions needed to help pass the 2010 Budget will be like fighting the GE once more!

[FrenchieCat]

The only difference is that the opponent is more serious about winning!

This ain't gonna be easy.
They have already started the war.
We do not have a choice!
We must fight them with everything that we have in our arsenal,
Because what we are fighting is for the future of this country,
and nothing less.

So take off your "we have just elected a Democratic President" hat,
and put on your "Yes, we absolutely fucking Can" helmet on.....
cause we are being called to active duty once again!


Obama turns to online army to push his budget plan
By Frank Davies
03/19/2009 04:59:06 PM PDT

WASHINGTON — Call it Obama Army 2.0, or what every president has coveted: a permanent, mobilized network of supporters, millions strong, ready to work for the White House agenda.

The next few weeks will test whether Obama and his team can harness the "netroots" energy and organizing skill, so important to his election, as a key ingredient in his effort to enact an ambitious $3.6 trillion budget.

In a video appeal e-mailed to millions of backers this week, Obama urged them to "head outside this Saturday, knock on doors, talk to neighbors, stay involved." Organizing for America, an offshoot of the campaign's vast online network, makes it easy to find events, canvass voters and contact members of Congress.

David Plouffe, the campaign manager who now advises the group, called the new effort "the first major engagement" of Organizing for America in trying to influence Congress.

So on Saturday, Galen Swain and other Obama backers will set up tables at a Safeway near Santa Clara University and implore voters to sign a pledge to support the budget and contact Congress. If enough Obama backers show up, some of them will go door to door in the neighborhood.

"People want to carry the momentum of the campaign forward. The budget stresses issues I care about — energy and education — and we want to build support for it," said Swain, a 50-year-old lab manager in Santa Clara.
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_11952746


Can Obama's grass-roots supporters fire up the budget?

Can the Obama army rise again?

For more than four months, the legions of volunteers who helped elect President Barack Obama have largely been given a breather, a reprieve from the rigors of political chores that some had been dutifully performing for nearly two years. But their respite may be over. This week, a new test is under way to see whether the network can still come alive.

The timing is by design. Not only is Mr. Obama's budget proposal facing an uphill climb in Congress, but his administration also is weathering fresh criticism over an onslaught of financial rescues and disclosures about bonuses paid out by bailout recipients. So the president's advisers did not want to wait too long before trying to engage — or, to borrow a bit of campaign lingo, to fire up — supporters.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/18/america/18webcolzeleny.php

IF YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE, GO HERE!

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/budgetaction/

[HopeOverFear]

1. Right on

Let's get this going.

[amborin]

2. agree!

[FrenchieCat]

3. The level of excitement about this topic

is not what I was expecting from folks with intense opinions about
everything else that is going on! :shrug:

[stillcool]

4. it speaks volumes..doesn't it?