WHY YOU SHOULD LOBBY CONGRESS
Citizens may feel it is a waste of time to contact elected leaders, because their minds are made up already. But on most issues, legislators try hard to determine the desires and leanings of their constituency before they vote. Politicians worry about being re-elected, and know that the happier their constituency, the more likely their own re-election.
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Tell your members Of Congress That Its Time To End The Illegal Actions Of The Obama Admin & Other Government Agencies!
President Obama "terrorist" Obamacare may Cost you Your Life!
OBAMACARE MEANS NET LOSS OF POLICIES - ObamaCare seems to have been an insurance killer so far. More than 5 million policies were nixed under the law’s new regulations. Announcing that just over 2 million people are potential paying customers is a rather stunning admission of defeat. Some of the millions may have landed on employer-based insurance and others may have become eligible under the expanded Medicaid program, but there are evidently many people who do not have coverage today because of the law.
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[Deadline: ObamaCare enrollees have until Jan. 10 to pay premiums for coverage retroactive to Jan. 1.]
WHITE HOUSE NOT SAYING HOW MANY ENROLLED - Democrats are talking big numbers: 2.1 million applicants for ObamaCare and millions more new enrollees in the welfare program that provides free coverage to the poor, Medicaid. But the Obama administration has so far refused to disclose the number that matters: The number of people who actually have obtained insurance under the law. AP reports, “Insurers say they are receiving thousands of erroneous sign-up applications from the government, and some people who thought they had enrolled for coverage have not received confirmation. Undoubtedly, some will find out they don’t have the immediate coverage they thought they did.” A recent WSJ report revealed only half of enrollees had made their first months payment. The government is touting nearly 4 million who have been “deemed eligible” for welfare benefits, but, again, that’s not the same as enrollments. The silence so far on the real numbers is reminiscent of the quiet that fell over the administration after the enrollment period began on Oct. 1. Do they not know? Scary. Do they not want to say? Scarier.
‘LIE OF THE YEAR’ ADS ROLL OUT, LIKE IT OR NOT - The conservative group Americans for Prosperity announced Wednesday it is greeting three vulnerable Democrats with big ad buys in the New Year. The group is spending $2.5 million dollars to hit Sens. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., Mary Landrieu, D-La., and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., for repeating President Obama’s “you can keep it” pledge, deemed “lie of the year” by PolitiFact.
Spin cycle on overdrive - President Obama’s permanent campaign apparatus, Organizing for Action, has launched its own online ad campaign in an effort to share ObamaCare success stories. The White House is also ramping up its PR efforts to put the troubled health law in a more positive light. Team Obama is offering social media tools to help spread its “#GetCovered” message, including Facebook profile images and banners. They have also launched a new section on the White HouseWeb site encouraging visitors to submit their own health care success stories.
THE HIGH PRICE OF POLITICAL IGNORANCE - George Will considers the consequences of a uninformed electorate in The price of political ignorance: More government. “Political ignorance helps explain Americans’ perpetual disappointment with politicians generally, and presidents especially, to whom voters unrealistically attribute abilities to control events. The elections of 1932 and 1980 dramatically illustrated how voters primarily control politicians — by ‘retrospective voting,’ refusing to reelect them.”
[LAT’s Mark Z. Barabak considers how “throw the bums out” so often results in the bums staying exactly where they are.]
PICK SIX: YOUR MIDTERM PREDICTIONS - With control of the Senate within reach of the GOP this year, we asked you to play pundit and give us your six picks for the most likely Republican path to a Senate majority. The consensus: Arkansas Democrat Mark Pryor is toast. But beyond that, most of you forecast additional GOP pickups in Alaska, Louisiana, Montana, South Dakota and West Virginia.
Many of you added your thoughts on how the GOP might get there: “Republicans have to get their ground game to work. They need to message themselves as pro-freedom, pro-liberty, and pro-America with real solutions to the failed policies of the past 5 years,” wrote Daniel Seiler. “They have the upper hand, because they have the argument. They just have to be disciplined enough to get it.”
It’s not too late to have your say! Email your six picks – just a list of postal abbreviations will do – to FOXNEWSFIRST@FOXNEWS.COM or tweet to @cstirewalt.
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