Constituents of those who voted for Stupak — and constituents of alleged "Blue Dogs" — should flood their offices with helpful reminders of the right way to go (remembering that the key is the quantity of letters, not the quality — since the member only hears the tallies and won't read the prose).
I am optimistic about the House, but it's always good to be prepared either way. So here's a suggestion on the Senate front: Sen. Ben Nelson has long been the most conservative Democrat in the Senate (with a nearly dead-center lifetime American Conservative Union score of 47 out of 100), he apparently has sincere misgivings about Obamacare, and he is now facing a Baskin-Robbins (31-point) deficit in the Nebraska polls. He has got to be looking for a way out. Nebraska voters should give it to him.
Nebraskans could help immensely by flooding Nelson's office with one-sentence letters pledging the following:
"I will vote for you if you vote to filibuster Obamacare if it returns to the Senate from the House, and I will vote against you if you don't."
Give Nelson a viable path to political redemption. The victory would be attributable to Nebraska, but the big winner would be the country.
01/06 05:35 PM
