Update: See Steve Levine's comment below-the Senators will not be at the meeting tonight in Austin as originally reported in this story.
The Texas Medical Association is hosting a series of meetings on health care concerns. They are calling them "House Calls"-which is, I think ,brilliant.
TMA wants to have a candid discussion with Texas patients. We want to hear firsthand what they think about our health care system and about our plan. The only way to accomplish that task is by listening to our patients. That is why TMA is making a House Call in your community.
Check the link for the closest one to you. In another excellent move, the TMA has made video from the first one in Denton available via Ustream. Hopefully they will do the rest as well.
This blogpost brought to you by Facebook and Moveon.org, because I found out about this when a facebook friend sent me a msg from Move On about the one in Austin tomorrow night, Aug. 13.
At which will be Senators Cornyn and Hutchison.
Regrettably, I have another engagement, but if you're able to go, I encourage you to do so.
Turn up the heat for real public options for public health, and don't let the debate get hijacked by extremists.
(Move On, and Move OUT of DC, Mr. Clear Channel. - promoted by sccs)
One day after voting against extending the same kind of taxpayer-funded health care he himself enjoys to more than four million eligible American children who have no insurance at all, Mike McCaul has found a cause he can support -- condemning the free expression of opinion by a group of citizens during an important national debate.
hanks to John Cornyn and other chickenhawk Republicans, MoveOn.org's Petreus Ad in the New York Times became the center of the Iraq War debate since the ad debuded on September 10th, the day of General Petreus' testimony in front of Congress. Last week, serious Senate business was halted by Cornyn's resolution condemning a newspaper ad which 90% of America and our soldiers haven't seen because they are too busy working or, you know, actually fighting the war. Within hours the resolution, the Senate with the help of 22 Democrats passed it.
This is the same Senate - and Senator Cornyn - that just a week earlier debated for days, weakened and ultimately failed to pass a bill by Senator Jim Webb to require Bush to give our soldiers eqaul time at home as they served in Iraq. Remember these soldiers through backdoor drafts and extended tours have been away from their families for over a year.
No, Republicans like John Cornyn wanted to talk about an newspaper ad. By an organization that employs just 17 people. A newspaper ad which 90% of the country and our troops haven't seen.
A. goddamn. newspaper. ad!
And now we're hearing that the NYTimes regrets giving MoveOn a discount. I agree with that because as a quality newspaper the Times has to maintain objectivity in this age of faux news. But if the price was based on outrage and the questions raised by the ad, it should have been free!
And though I disagree strategically with the ad, the MoveOn spot asked a legitimate question. Or have we forgotten what the neocons did to Colin Powell?
But make no mistake about it - a newspaper ad is exactly what pro-war chickenhawks Cornyn wanted everyone to talk about because if Americans actually debated the war, neocons like him or Rumsfeld or Cheney would be in deep trouble.
Oh, right. Americans have been debating the war and guess what? They are completely against it. That's why the GOP got smoked in 2006. And if this flap over the MoveOn ad is any indication, they will get smoked again in 2008.
In a controversial way, the MoveOn ad asked a legitimate question: Was General Petreus' testimony realiable or can we trust the words of even a good soldier if they are just a White House puppet? After all this same White House administration misled General Colin Powel. The Bush neocons knew they had no credibility to get in front of the world at the UN and sell the Iraq war. So they fed General Powell information they knew was false or suspect, and they allowed the highly respected general to sell the Iraq War to the whole world. General Powell's highly respected reputation and a long career built on integrity and principles taught in his military training evaporated like the WMD scare. The neocons knew they use the general's good name to sell their war.
Let me first start with an apology to the rest of these United States for the disgusting performance of the Junior Senator from Texas.
As noted elsewhere, it WAS pure performance-political theatre of the farce genre.
You might be able to imagine what Rick Noriega, Afghanistan vet and current Lt. Col in the Texas National Guard thought of that display, but Rick is about actions, not just words. Follow me on the flip for his call to action.
(It's not often, even in the U.S. Senate, that you see a sitting Senator so publically coat himself in chicken shit.
Texas deserves a better Senator than this. - promoted by boadicea)
Cross-posted from Daily Kos and Blue Texas
Sen. John Cornyn isn't content with joining Republican efforts to drag out George W. Bush's morally irresponsible war of choice in Iraq. He's also not content with spreading his pack of lies and misinformation about Moveon.org's recent ad attacking the testimony of Bush's Iraq general, David Petreaus.
He now plans to introduce a sense of the Senate resolution Thursday attacking Moveon.org for daring to expose the holes of Petreaus' testimony and the continued idioicy of Bush's war.
More below.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- MoveOn.org Political Action is offering a $250,000 reward for new material evidence leading to a felony conviction for an organized effort of partisan voter suppression or electronic voting fraud.
Throughout the day accusations of election fraud and voter suppression incidents have been flooding into state and federal authorities throughout the country. In Virginia, the FBI has launched a criminal investigation into charges of voter suppression. In 20 Congressional districts, NRCC robocalls appearing to come from Democrats harassed voters with repeated calls in an apparently coordinated campaign to suppress the vote.
Complementing an earlier reward for whistleblowers, MoveOn's reward is being offered to anyone who provides this information.
Perhaps the government will finally be embarrassed into dealing with Election Reform seriously.
A disputed 2000 Presidential election, voting irregularities and intimidation in 2002 and 2004 - and that's without the allegations of actual election fruad. How embarrassing!
Fraud or no fraud, the Richest Democracy in the world deserves to have reliable elections.
