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iluvtennis

(20,868 posts)
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 06:23 PM Dec 2016

The GOP has a fight on its hands

Dear MoveOn member,

The conventional wisdom in Washington, D.C., is that come January, Republicans will be able to abolish the Affordable Care Act, torpedoing health insurance coverage for 30 million people and that nobody will make a peep about it.1

On Tuesday, we showed that the conventional wisdom is dead wrong.

On that day, MoveOn members and allies gathered outside of 82 Republican House and Senate offices in 26 states across the country, and thousands more flooded state GOP offices with phone calls.

Our message: "Don't take away our health care." And if you try, you've got a fight on your hands.

The demonstrations, organized in partnership with 45 local and national groups, sparked dozens of media stories and a multitude of social media posts. More importantly, they couldn't be ignored by the Republican Congressional staffers inside the offices. A staffer for West Virginia's Senator Shelley Moore Capito sat down with a group of protesters—and readily told them that she knew that there were protests happening at Capito's other offices around the state.

You may not see it on Fox News—yet!—but the resistance to taking away Americans' health care has begun.

Here are a few snapshots of what it looked like out there on Tuesday:

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This is just the first taste of what the GOP—and any Democrat who dares join them in trying to take away health care that tens of millions of Americans count on—will encounter.

If they repeal the Affordable Care Act, many clinics and hospitals will have to shut their doors.2 Hundreds of thousands of jobs will disappear.3 And tens of millions of people will lose the insurance that they rely on. Until now, Republicans' attempts to repeal Obamacare have just been play-acting, a way to rile up their base. But now, they're shooting with real bullets. And as the rest of the country wakes up to what they're planning to do—hurt real people—a firestorm of opposition is building.

Trump and his Republican friends have said that repealing the Affordable Care Act will be their first priority this January. We can make it their first defeat. By stopping them, we'll slam the door on their plans to slash and privatize Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, public schools, and so many other fundamental services that Americans rely on. And by battling against their atrocious plan, we'll demonstrate to the American people whose side Trump is really on—and what we stand for as progressives.

Happy holidays and thanks for all you do.

–Ben W., Emma, Katharine, Victoria, and the rest of the team

P.S. You can see the entire day of action photos via Facebook here.

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The GOP has a fight on its hands (Original Post) iluvtennis Dec 2016 OP
There have been many demonstrations and there will be more elmac Dec 2016 #1
Unless Traitor Trump abolishes the 1st Amendment...we the ppl have the right to protest... iluvtennis Dec 2016 #2
I agree to an extent however... Akacia Dec 2016 #7
K&R! sheshe2 Dec 2016 #3
Kick! sheshe2 Dec 2016 #4
FUCK YOU GOP! sheshe2 Dec 2016 #5
The GOP talks a good game, but they will not duffyduff Dec 2016 #6
 

elmac

(4,642 posts)
1. There have been many demonstrations and there will be more
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 09:10 PM
Dec 2016

but the police and paid security forces are always there to squelch any informative message by arrests, or tear gas or beatings. They will no allow the peasants to get too close to their masters. I'm afraid that demonstrating and civil disobedience will not work in a fascist society.

iluvtennis

(20,868 posts)
2. Unless Traitor Trump abolishes the 1st Amendment...we the ppl have the right to protest...
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 09:25 PM
Dec 2016

...but like you, I see fascism is coming to America, so maybe he will try to override the constitution. BUT, we can't allow that to happen.

Akacia

(629 posts)
7. I agree to an extent however...
Sat Dec 24, 2016, 05:42 PM
Dec 2016

Look what happened at Standing Rock. I have to believe that sanity will prevail in the long run or I will go crazy! And it is nuts to go backwards as they seem to want to go!

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