| Remember Scott Murphy? I do. I wrote about a dozen diaries to help fundraise and phonebank for Scott Murphy in the special election for NY-20 held earlier this year.
Scott Murphy (D) beat Republican Jim Tedisco by a mere 200+ votes in that election.
And now he is undecided on whether or not he will vote on Health Care Reform, otherwise known as "Obama's Waterloo" in the Wingnutosphere.
So, what did I work my ass off for earlier this year?
I worked my ass off for the right to Yell Louder at Scott Murphy, who might listen to me, as opposed to a wingnut who certainly wouldn't, and I plan to use that right now, and I hope you will too.
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| Back in August I reported from the NY 20 town hall hosted by Scott Murphy. Then, he supported Health Care Reform. Now, he is undecided.
In case he didn't realize, the screamers at that townhall were NEVER going to vote for a Democrat in the first place, and Murphy won his special election because he supported President Obama, not because he opposed it.
In order to help elect Scott Murphy I wrote diaries like this one, titled Who do I have to f%#$ to get Scott Murphy elected? for my health, becuase I knew we'd need every vote we could get to pass health care reform.
And now we need to whip Scott Murphy into shape.
If Scott Murphy fails to live up to his promises after he wins this election I will certainly be one of the first and loudest to call him out on it. That is how this whole system works. That is how you take on the system. No politician gives a shit about the people who vote against them, it is only the people who may potentially vote for them that our professional political class will care to hear. That is how we will demand change, and that is why we are seeing the pride of the Blue Dogs and the ConservaDems now. It is because they do not fear us. They have forgotten already, so quickly, that it is We The People who give them the power of office, and we can just as easily take it away. Until the GOP is totally marginalized in general elections the GOP, the Blue Dogs, the ConservaDems and other elephants in Blue clothing will continue to betray our trust and side with our opponents whenever it suits them to. Until the Blue Dogs and ConservaDems are primaried out, or, within an inch of their political lives, they will not fear us enough to act in our best interests. We have to force them to make our best interests what is in their best interest. If Politicians think that they can hide behind the failed ideas of fiscal conservatism because a liberal democrat can't win in such and such district we should work to make terms like fiscal conservative as politically toxic as Mark Foley. The incompetence and lethargy of members of congress like Sen. Maj. Leader Harry Reid and Senators Joe Lieberman and Roland Burris will be continue to be played to as if they are legitimate and respected politicians and not the incompetent sniveling weathercocks they are, but this will only go on as long as we permit it, and the only way we can force them to act otherwise is by putting the fear of God into them. We can do this with the same efforts we use to elect our officials, by writing and calling and contributing against them, but we gain even more power over them when we write and call and contribute for them first. This makes them respect us, and it makes them fear us.
One of the biggest risks we run is not that the GOP will return to power, but the risk that the Democrats will become the Republicans.
The road to TAKING ON THE SYSTEM goes through NY-20 by MoT
Back in February I wrote about how we need to instill fear and respect into our elected leaders. After months of teabagging stupidity from the right I still feel the same way, though that feeling was never on the level we saw the wingnuts take it to when they brought guns to townhall meetings and so on. But the fact remains, without our supprot Democrats like Scott Murphy are done for come next election. We need to remind them of that, and why we sent them to Congress in the first place.
Contact Scott Murphy (D-NY20) here by phione and let him know he will LOSE your support in 2010 if we LOSE his support on Health Care Reform
Washington, DC Office
Congressman Scott Murphy 120 Cannon HOB
Washington, D.C. 20515
Phone: (202) 225-5614
Fax: (202) 225-1168
So, please, get on the phone and help us WHIP Scott Murphy into line on Health Care Reform. Offer him our support for doing the right thing, and remind him that it was the Netroots that helped push him over a narrow edge versus his Republican challenger, and not this guy.
Cheers,
MoT
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