I got this email from MoveOn today:
Dear MoveOn member (ah the lure of a free bumper sticker),
It’s outrageous: Joe Lieberman is single-handedly blocking our best chance at strong health care reform in years!
Above they list the problem. And here, drum roll please, is their “solution”:
In less than 24 hours MoveOn members have donated an astounding $650,000 to send Lieberman home for good. That’s awesome–thank you! Now we’re aiming to raise $1 million together.
If we can hit that goal, we’ll have the resources to make sure every voter in Connecticut knows that Senator Lieberman has been standing in the way of reform and to push Senate Democrats to take away his chairmanship.
That’ll take at least 86 donations from Atlanta–can you chip in $5?
[deleted histrionics]
Thanks for all you do.
-Nita, Carrie, Wes, Steven, and the rest of the team
Why this is idiotic, after the jump.
Just so we are all clear, Moveon wants to “make sure every voter in Connecticut knows that Senator Lieberman has been standing in the way of reform and to push Senate Democrats to take away his chairmanship” in order to stop Lieberman from “single handedly” blocking health care reform.
Lieberman ain’t my favorite Nutmegger, (obviously Prudence Crandall, why are we even discussing it?), but he was reelected in 2006 after a well funded Democratic challenger beat him in the primary, and so he is not up again until 2012. That’s three years from now and after the mid-terms! So letting people in Connecticut know Lieberman is blocking a bill in 2009 does nothing towards that election, and puts no pressure on him at all. The second half of that sentence has to do with putting pressure on the Senate leadership to remove him from his chair. How the hell is that going to make him less likely to vote against the health care bill? And what does telling “every voter” in Connecticut do for that? Oh and also, there are 3.4 million people in Connecticut, how are you going to reach them, not by mail, 1 million cannot even pay that postage. TV? There are at least 4 major media markets in Connecticut, and the one that reaches the most people is *&^%*&%$*&*()& New York City. How much air time you think you are going to buy in NYC, MoveON? And if you do, who is that really going to benefit? Only you; it will just stimulate more people to contribute, so what you really want to do is have these poor 86 people in Atlanta fund your advertising campaign to get more Northeastern Contributions, while we suffer under Chambliss, who thinks he lives in Mississippi, and Isakson (who IS up for reelection).
1 million dollars they want. Keep in mind that Connecticut has tons of money since all the high paid insurance company people with their million dollar bonuses live there, but they want 86 folks from Atlanta to fund this project.
This is a Connecticut discussion about which DEMOCRATIC Senator they want, because they aren’t going to elect a Republican (none in Congress from that State). If MoveON wanted to actually move the needle, they would take money from Connecticut, super safe Democratic Senator, and put it into States where there are Republican Senators which could be Democratic ones. Because Joe ain’t “single handedly” blocking health care, there are 40 other people along there with him. Two of whom are here in Georgia.
Consider this my unsubscribe email. I will be sending your free bumper sticker back another way.
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