Tomorrow, July 9th 2009, the far-left moveon.org will be dispatching activists to approximately 150 senate offices throught the country to rally in support of national healthcare and the ‘public option’. Additionally, they will be conducting a telephone ‘blitz’ of these same senators.

From the Moveon.org website:

Public Option Now! Health Care Rally

“The fight over health care reform is reaching a critical moment. The heart of President Obama’s plan — a strong public health insurance option — is under attack. MoveOn members are organizing Public Option Now! Health Care rallies on July 9th to send a strong message to the Senate: Health care reform must include a strong public health insurance option.”

What MoveOn isn’t telling you:

On June 15th, the Congressional Budget Office released its projections of what just ONE section of the Kennedy healthcare proposal would cost: 1 TRILLION dollars from 2010 to 2019, and this is without the cost of a government-run insurance plan (the ‘public option’) figured in.

From the CBO’s letter to Senator Kennedy (all emphasis mine):

The attached table summarizes our preliminary assessment of the proposal’s budgetary effects and its likely impact on insurance coverage. According to that assessment, enacting the proposal would result in a net increase in federal budget deficits of about $1.0 trillion over the 2010–2019 period. Once the proposal was fully implemented, about 39 million individuals would obtain coverage through the new insurance exchanges. At the same time, the number of people who had coverage through an employer would decline by about 15 million (or roughly 10 percent), and coverage from other sources would fall by about 8 million, so the net decrease in the number of people uninsured would be about 16 million.

So, according to the CBO;

• By 2019, 39 million people would be covered by the government plan
• In the same time frame, approximately 23 million people would lose their current insurance coverage from employer or other private sources
• When all is said and done, only 16 million people would have benefited from the new healthcare reform.

In fact, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) just today, in a moment of unintentinal candor, admitted ““If every member pledged to not vote for it if they hadn’t read it in its entirety, I think we would have very few votes,”.  cnsnews.com hotair.com

What you can do:

Attend A Counter-Protest Rally

Conservative counter-protest rallys are being organized as I write this. These counter-rallys will be held Thursday July 9th at the same time and locations as the moveon rallys. Please try to at least make an appearance; I know most of us have day jobs, but the moveon rallys appear to all be scheduled during lunchtime hours, making them easily doable for most of us. It is important that we make a big a showing as possible. Bring a sign if at all possible.

Click here and input your ZIP code to find out where the moveon people will be holding their rallys. That is where you need to go. Also, if there’s a conservative or TEA party group active in your area, check their website – chances are they’re already organizing.

Call and Fax Your Senator

If you cannot make it – and even if you can – the other thing that needs to be done are phone calls to your senator’s offices to counter the moveon ‘blitz’, to let them know you do not support national healthcare or the ‘public option’, and that you expect them to vote it down.

Every senator has a Washington, DC office – that’s the one to call first – but make sure to call their local offices as well. When something big s going on, the DC phone lines will often be jammed.

A full list of senators searchable by name, state, or (and this is handy) when they’re up for reelection is here. Clicking on your senator’s name will take you directly to their website where you can find the phone and fax numbers of all their offices.

I can’t overstate the importance of these phone calls. Our Senators do pay attention to the calls that come in so that they may gauge how much support they have on a given issue. You won’t speak directly with your senator (you’ll get a staffer) , but your opposition will be noted.

If you’ve never called a government representative before, it’s really no big deal. It can seem intimidating at first, but remember that not only are they just people, but they work for us. Click here for some excellent tips on how to effectively communicate with your Senator. I have excerpted the relevant ‘telephone calls’ section below:

Telephone Calls
Unless you have established a working relationship with a legislator or one of their staff members, telephone calls are best limited to times when a bill is coming up for a vote and you want to urge the legislator to vote for or against it. If you have established a working relationship with the legislator or one of their staff members, then call them to discuss it. But, keep in mind you may not be able to talk with the legislator personally. When in Washington elected officials have hectic schedules and a good part of their day is spent in committee meetings or on the floor of the House or Senate.

Instead of calling your legislators’ Washington office consider calling a local district office instead. For one, it’s less expensive than a long distance call to Washington and, two, district offices tend not to get swamped with phone calls as do Capitol offices.

If this is your first call to a congressional office, you’ll talk with a staff member. The first thing you need to do is state your and name and the fact that you are a constituent of the legislator. Then briefly state the nature of your call, i.e., urging the legislator to support or oppose a particular piece of legislation:

“Hello, my name is Sally Smith and I am a constituent of (name of senator or representative). I am calling today to urge them to support/oppose HR 1234. Thank you.”

These types of calls are very important to legislators and the vast majority of offices keep track of these calls.

I’ll be attending the counter-protest in Raleigh at Senator Kay Hagan’s office.

Stay safe, give ‘em hell, and take no shit from anyone. This is our country.

-Cnation