Below is the text of the messages I just left on the websites of my Senators. I urge all of you to email or call tonight to ask your Senators to support efforts to defund Obamacare. They listened on gun control, they have been listening on Syria, and they need to hear our voices now.
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Dear Senator McConnell/Paul,
I am reaching out to you to request that you support Senator Cruz in his filibuster, and to only support cloture on the continuing resolution if an up or down vote is given to the version recently passed by the House.
The ACA has already become a destructive force in the American economy, and full enactment would force millions of Americans to either pay significantly more than they are accustomed to for insurance, or cause them to lose their insurance at all.
This has struck my family already. My employer has announced that working spouses will not be covered under our insurance plan starting in January. I understand that many employers have taken this step in order to cut costs that have ballooned due to the new mandates of the ACA. So, instead of my wife being covered under the excellent health insurance offered by my employer, she will be paying significantly more each month to get insurance through her employer, and that coverage is, to be honest, substandard.
In addition, there are cases where self-insured families are having their insurance costs double or triple, causing them to have to decide what other essential they will have to do without in order to keep health insurance, if that is even an option.
Again, please support efforts to defund the ACA and support all of those in the Senate who are trying to accomplish that goal.
Respectfully,
Daddy J. Bear
Louisville
DaddyBear’s Den 
nixfu
/ September 24, 2013The republicans have had three years to do some thing. They are the ones that let it go this far. Heck the republican house has passed 19 amendments to obamacare so far themselves since it was originally passed.
They are just trying to get the low information Fox News voter all fired up and ready to getre-elected. They wait until the week before it goes into effect to fake like they “tried”.
Hell, I bet Harry Reid is in on the whole thing and in a back room deal, he has agreed to go along with the next war the empire wants to start if they put up only this week lame attempt.
Conservatives are useless, what have they ever actually conserved anyway? Government has never gotten smaller, even when they had control of BOTH houses and the president. They are all talk.
Don’t think for an instant this is not all show.
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daddybear71
/ September 25, 2013Of course it’s political theater. The minimum payoff for Cruz and the rest of the libertarian/conservative wing of the Republican Party is to get their issues and names forced through to low information voters.
But what else do you suggest they do? Acquiesce and allow Obamacare to come into force? Let the “low information voters” forget that this is a freedom and economy issue? This is the discussion we should have had before the bloody bill was voted on in the first place, but it’s very mass made that impossible. It took this long just to analyze the bill, see how it was going to be implemented, and find an occasion where there was a chance of success in at least getting a vote.
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