Bloggers Make A Difference!
Look what we can do when we set our minds to it!
A fundraiser launched by progressive bloggers as part of an increasingly aggressive response to White House backsliding on health care reform has out-raised any such effort in the past.
Donations in support of Democrats who back a public insurance option as part of health care reform have topped $100,000 from more than 1,500 donors in 24 hours and counting.
If you haven’t jumped on board yet… here’s your chance. Go to FireDogLake / Act Blue and make a difference.
Go Bloggers!
Unfortunately, Pandora, that means that you will have to keep raising money at that rate for 1,500 days in order to equal the $150 million that the pharmaceutical industry threw at the administration with one check.
Hey, Steve, stop raining on my parade! 🙂
Seriously… if there was any doubt that what happened during the Presidential Campaign with the fundraising/mobilizing was a fluke, perhaps everyone needs to think again. Let me also point out that there are votes behind these donations.
Can they donate to my wife and family’s mountain of pain from the insurance fiasco? Guaranteed to go to great use! 😉
President Pantywaist in retreat: Barack Obama hoists the white flag over Stalinist health care
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | August 19, 2009 | Gerald Warner
The white flag is flying over Camp Obama, which makes a pleasant change from the red flag that, metaphorically speaking, has been flying there since January 20. Barack Obama’s plan for socialised health care on the Stalinist model across the United States is now in full retreat. Not only will it not play in Peoria, it will not play anywhere. Politicians returning to Washington after scrubbing off the tar and feathers acquired at town-hall meetings are bringing with them a blast of reality that has been absent from Obama’s dreamland regime since his inauguration. For months Obama had been trumpeting…