Report: Campaign To Drum Up Outrage About Obama Budget A Bust

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Report: Campaign To Drum Up Outrage About Obama Budget A Bust

As you know, an array of groups have been working hard to drum up a sense of public passion about Obama’s budget plan, calling on folks to deluge their members of Congress with calls in favor or in opposition to it.

How is that working out? Not so well, according to Congress Daily, which reports that the public doesn’t seem to care much at all:

Despite urgent pleas by interest groups over cable TV, radio, and the Web, congressional switchboard operators have not seen any noticeable spike in calls, according to the office of the Senate sergeant-at-arms. Over the past few days, the switchboard has handled about the same number of calls it typically experiences on a normal legislative day.

Aides to moderate Senate and House Democrats being targeted by ads and e-mail campaigns said their offices have fielded a relatively light volume of telephone calls, especially in comparison to the crushing response to debate on the economic stimulus package earlier this year.

This, of course, is far worse news for opponents of the budget than for its supporters. It’s expected to pass both houses of Congress, so the onus was on its foes to create enough public outrage about it to make supporters in Congress think twice about backing it. But that’s apparently not happening.

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1. Good. Everyone just wants the economy to get better.