With a plurality of Americans now saying they oppose the the stimulus package currently making its way through congress and with support among elected officials softening in kind, President Obama has taken to the airwaves to sell the plan to the American people. Of course, the media is at best an unreliable narrator, giving Republicans a forum to discuss the plan (often allowing them to refer to is as a "bailout" without challenge) as though they are good faith arbiters in the process. So it's good to see the president utilize his Obama For America infrastructure to get around the media filter and go directly to 13 million of his closest friends.
Here's an excerpt from the e-mail dispatched today from David Plouffe:
President Obama discussed why we need an immediate effort to create millions of jobs while investing in long-term challenges like energy and health care.He called for swift investment in job creation while continuing to assist those who are out of work, without health insurance, or in danger of losing their homes.
The Economic Recovery plan passed the House of Representatives, and the Senate is preparing to vote on it very soon. The final version can and will be improved. But the President's core plan will positively affect families and communities all across the country.
You can help make sure the American people have all the facts so they can support this crucial effort to boost our struggling economy.
Plouffe is asking people to share the video below and to host or attend an economic recovery house party this weekend. You can sign up at BarackObama.com HERE.
Grassroots action from the left is crucial. As Robert Borosage writes in an e-mail from his Campaign For America's Future:
100 to 1. We've gotten word from our progressive friends on Capitol Hill that for every one hundred phone calls to Congress from conservatives trying to obstruct change, there is only one phone call from a citizen demanding passage of President Obama's economic recovery bill.Backed by this conservative grassroots pressure, Senate Republicans are moving rapidly as a block to obstruct -- pushing reforms that are designed essentially to make the plan fail. They're demanding that billions be cut from a plan that, if anything, is already too small, and that more be diverted to top-end tax cuts.
Go HERE for instructions on calling your Senator in support of the stimulus package and to report how the call went.
Our work did not end on November 4th. It only just began.
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