We need a Pelosi pile-up

The health care fight is far from over. Heck, it has just begun. I urge you to read Cinie today -- after which, please visit 1payer.net.

Seems President Arugula Barry Waffles’ brain, Speaker of the House, Nasty Pancakes, is whining about the overwhelming number of faxes she’s received in support of putting the option of single payer health care on the table. After 1Payer.net’s email campaign reportedly flooded Nasty P.’s office, her suckophants tried to sound the all-clear. Don’t let ‘m off the hook. They’re the ones who issued the Dirty Harry-esque, ” you feelin’ lucky, punk, make my day” challenge, daring the 59% of us in favor of true health care reform to “make them” put the option on the table, so, I say let’s come back at them with our own Die Hard-style, “yippee ki-yay, motherf*ckers,” response. Fax, email, call, and/or write all of ‘em.

Now it’s time to kick it up a notch. Contact everybody you can think of, your Congresspeople, Senators, the White House, the DNC, the RNC, anybody, everybody. Whether they’re likely to support the proposal or not, they need to know that there’s real grassroots support for it. PUMA Pac has provided links to media outlets and a form letter, too, even though I think “give us real health care reform, you poopy-headed doofuses,” works just fine.

This is one time I don’t care who’s behind what, what their motives are or who’s paying who on the downlow. Everybody needs to hear what you want, every day, all day, until they do something about it, or Nancy Pelosi cries.

I'll repeat my suggestion that you should also contact the Obamaphiles who run the major prog-blogs. Yes, I know that they insulted us incessantly, calling us "Republicans in disguise" and worse sobriquets. Let's shame them. Let's demonstrate that they are the ones closest to the GOP on this issue. So far, this Kos diary is the only responsible one I've seen from Cheetoland, and it garnered all of 14 responses. I've seen nothing at D.U., nothing on TPM...

By the way, this follow-up on 1-payer.net prints a doctor's suggestion that single-payer advocates forego mass-fax campaigns in favor of a more directed approach:

Communications to members of Congress FROM THEIR CONSTITUENTS which are factual, respectful, and SIGNED are taken seriously on Capitol Hill. Other forms of communication are counterproductive. Our opponents are well-funded and their communications are likely to be well-organized and slick. Let's not imitate the loonies on the right...

This doctor is correct, to a degree. Usually, a single hard copy letter from a constituent -- kept to one shortish paragraph -- will get more attention than will an entire fax or email campaign. But in this case, it is important to demonstrate "street heat." I do not consider this particular fax campaign to be either counterproductive or tasteless.

So if you want to make the biggest impact, go here, fill in your zip code, and find out how to contact your representative. I've had good luck contacting by telephone; if you don't want to interact with a staffer, call during the wee small hours and leave a message.

But you should also keep sending those faxes.