…according to Senator Sessions, appearing on “The Mark Levin Show” just now. [update: ABC has it now]
Now, here’s the thing: Reid is going to keep the Democrats in line (though ironically, he himself promised to vote for a balanced budget); but the fact is, a number of Democratic senators campaigned on support for a balanced budget and a balanced budget amendment. (Jim DeMint says the tally is 22 Democrats and 1 independent)
We need to target them with phone calls and emails, reminding them that they now have an opportunity to honor their promises.
Here’s DeMint’s list:
U.S. Senators Max Baucus (D-Montana), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Mark Begich (D-Alaska), Michael Bennet (D-Colorado), Tom Carper (D-Delaware), Bob Casey (D-Pennsylvania), Kent Conrad (D-North Dakota), Dick Durbin (D-Illinois), Dianne Feinstein (D-California), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York), Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Tim Johnson (D-South Dakota), Herb Kohl (D-Wisconsin), Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana), Joe Lieberman (I-Connecticut), Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri), Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia), Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska), Bill Nelson (D-Florida), Harry Reid (D-Nevada), Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan), John Tester (D-Montana), and Mark Udall (D-Colorado).
I’ll work on putting together a list of phone numbers and email addresses, and you all can send the link along to anyone and everyone on your contact lists. It’s that serious.
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Sen Baucus (202) 224-2651
Web Form: baucus.senate.gov/contact/emailForm.cfm?subj=issue
Sen Begitch (202) 224-3004
Web Form: begich.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=EmailSenator
Sen Bennet (202) 224-5852
Web Form: bennet.senate.gov/contact/
Sen Brown (202) 224-2315
Web Form: brown.senate.gov/contact/
Sen Carper (202) 224-2441
Web Form: carper.senate.gov/contact/
Sen Casey (202) 224-6324
Web Form: casey.senate.gov/contact/
Sen Conrad (202) 224-2043
Web Form: conrad.senate.gov/contact/webform.cfm
Sen Durbin (202) 224-2152
Web Form: durbin.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact
Sen Feinstein (202) 224-3841
Web Form: feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactU…
Sen Gillibrand (202) 224-4451
Web Form: gillibrand.senate.gov/contact/
Sen Harkin (202) 224-3254
Web Form: harkin.senate.gov/contact.cfm
Sen Tim Johnson (202) 224-5842
Web Form: johnson.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Contact
Sen Kohl (202) 224-5653
Web Form: kohl.senate.gov/contact.cfm
Sen Landrieu (202) 224-5824
Web Form: landrieu.senate.gov/about/contact.cfm
Sen Lieberman (202) 224-4041
Web Form: lieberman.senate.gov/index.cfm/contact/email-me-about-an-…
Sen Manchin (202) 224-3954
Web Form: manchin.senate.gov/contact_form.cfm
Sen McCaskill (202) 224-6154
Web Form: mccaskill.senate.gov/?p=contact
Sen Ben Nelson (202) 224-6551
Web Form: bennelson.senate.gov/contact-me.cfm
Sen Bill Nelson (202) 224-5274
Web Form: billnelson.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm
Sen Reid (202) 224-2752
Web Form: risch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Email
Sen Stabenow (202) 224-4822
Web Form: stabenow.senate.gov/?p=contact
Sen Tester (202) 224-2644
Web Form: tester.senate.gov/Contact/index.cfm
Sen Mark Udall (202) 224-5941
Web Form: markudall.senate.gov/?p=contact
From Bill Nelson’s website, a poll:
Despite the misleading language, the results (7:15 Eastern, July 20): Yes 39%, No 60.2%.
The pressure must be intense. What are these politicians being motivated with? And by whom?!
Besides urging support of the Cut, Cap and Balance bill, throw in opposition to the Gang of Six hornswoggle as well.
I’m sure Al Franken would love to hear from me on this. Yup.
And the other commie Senator, whatever her name is, I’m sure she’d listen to reason.
If my work wasn’t here, and my best friend wasn’t here… .
I’ll be writing Gillibrand directly, and following it up with calls over the next few days. Same for Schumer, even though he didn’t make any promises, and probably doesn’t want to hear me “kvetch”…again :)
I’ll be linking to this later.
And:
If Hatch is talking it down, then it’s probably not passable as
writtentalked about over Martinis at the Senate club…Hatch only got the message from Bob Bennett’s rejection that most of the Establishment types have yet to figure out. Ol’ Orin may be aged, but he’s not stupid.
Well, look who wants to keep his job! Where are the rest of the RINO’s? Anyone know? I seem to remember Snowe getting the vapors a while back.
Jeff Sessions carves up the Gang of X plan. Plus:
Orrin’s also been watching that Chaffetz kid (who’s been kicking ass and taking names lately) in his rearview and gaining.
See, this is how you win. My hope is that I’m not gonna care whether that old dog can learn a new trick because we’ll retire him. But in the meantime, he’s seeing the light! And it’s not because he’s had an epiphany.
I was watching a bit of CNN today, and they were breaking down the DC debate, and one of the talking heads was saying that while there are always these Washington dramas they always get resolved in the nick of time, this one is different because of these freshmen that really don’t care if they get reelected. They were sent to do a job (that they certainly want to do) and they’re going to do it. I can almost see Ben Franklin smiling.
What is up with Coburn? How did he come to be pimping that thing?
What would be really nifty Pablo is, should their constituents decide that some of the Freshman class haven’t been up to the job they were sent to do, those Rep’s voters, while retiring them, will turn right around and send someone like the Frosh retired but better, just as conservative fiscally, yet tougher, and hopefully more successful. Well, that, added to another surge in numbers neat, of course, taking a greater hold on the House and a majority in the Senate.
CC&B – am I crazy in thinking that it will be a close vote in the Senate? I mean really close.
Pablo (12), that is *highly* encouraging. Thanks!
I suspect he’s a romantic, envisioning himself bringing back a Cold-War bipartisanship somehow or other. Others of us just think he’s a nutter.
when will they ever get around to voting on it I wonder
Coburn went from a 9 trillion dollar cut to I’m a be your sleazy whore so fast he must have lots of practice
But he doesn’t have lots of practice. He’s Doctor No. He’s very staunch. But now he’s not. I don’t get it. Somethings weird here, and it’s bugging me. What happened? Does someone have pictures? WTF?
I think it’s possible he got genuinely confuzzled that the deal was better than it is
I though he was Dr. Pull-from-your-twat, oh lookit the tiny baby! All the babies are so cute! Life is grand and la-dee-da, etc.
Oh, yeah. Crazy lifedoodle. Staunch, even. But, with math skills very uncommon in the Senate.
Why is Reid allowing this to be voted on in the first place?
JD, maybe that talk by Steve Wynn got to him?
My opinion Pablo?
I think Coburn is seeing this as being analogous to the constitutional convention slavery issue, like I articulated poorly last week.
He’s hearing Moody’s, S&P, and such, and talking to folks we don’t even know of behind the scenes and thinking; shit’s about to get real…
So maybe he’s seeing this as an existential threat, a pivotal moment when he must strike a Faustian bargain with the Democrats on this, just like the Northerners struck a deal with the Southerners over the issue of slavery and intergration of it into the American political system.
Maybe just like the anti-slavery types thought they’d deal with it in the near future, so too might he see the Rethugs! taking back the Senate and WH and being able to put through serious tax, spending, and entitlement reform through in the near future.
I can’t otherwise explain why he’d accept the whole, “we’ll cut the spending later”, charade since he has to have lived throught the spending promise double crosses of 1986 and 1990.
#26 being why I’m not done! with Coburn, since there must be more than appears to us going on; something behind the scenes has influenced his decision.
I mean, in his plan from Monday he was willing to cut 1 trillion from DoD over the next 10 to make a deal; a concession that I find wildly ill-advised and reckless.
There’s more to this than appears. Coburns no RINO, no comity-monger, and certainly not a squish. He’s Staunch…
oh. I missed this. Dr. okietard is preaching hell and brimstone against teh eeeevil tax expenditures.
No one tells me anything.
he’s been a whorish and complacent piece of shit American senator long enough that it’s kinda hard to buy the idea he just woke his okietard ass up one summer morning in 2011 and suddenly had an epiphany that the mortgage interest tax deduction was of the devil
i happen to mostly agree with him on the tax expenditure thing, but still.
Want to see the housing market fully crash? Pass the gang of sucks POS bargain… The rumors swirling are that the mortgage deduction would phase out on $400,000 homes (mortgages??) and higher. Sure screws the pooch on California and most blue hells. I’m seriously considering walking away from my (now) underwater house and moving to Orlando. NO state income tax and I’m finding 3/2/2s with a pool ON A GOLF COURSE
Early on he defined it, as I recall. Makes this all the more perplexing.
So, you can point to a few of his votes and pronouncements that demonstrate this, yes?
Indeed. Perhaps we lack ‘feets vision, JHo.
yes I want to see the housing market fully crash
thanks jeff/ u should do this more often[ in my humble opinion]
i’m calling debby stabenow
i got a sick twisted crush on her
help me wanda
renting for $850/month. An extra $1300 a month cash flow sure looks good and why do I need 4 bedrooms with no kids at home starting in 30 days???? Screw the hit on the credit score as that extra $$ per month is more that the self imposed credit limit on my only credit card…
/hit the wrong key and posted too soon, sorry.
His phone is blowing up?
/Yeah, I doubt it.
Stephanie, SW FL was/is an epicenter, fighting Vegas for worst in the nation. New 3/2/2 condos (granite counters, tile floors, 9.5″ ceilings, etc) can run $100k. Add a pool and lanai and single family homes are still under $150k in quite decent places. They’ve been standing around for a few years, empty. ‘Course, it’s the N Ft Myers and Cape Coral area, so good luck making a living.
Coburn should have become a screechy spotlight whore long long before this I think
all the poncey cowardly go along get along senators should have
it’s time for a clean sweep
I know, I’ve got Punta Gorda and Port Charlotte real estate agents emailing me offers for older 2/2 condos in need of some updating for $35-50K. Add in $10k or so for the remodel and now you’re looking at some awesome retirement options. For cash.
I’m seriously considering the rental route though as I have a feeling that squirreling money may be better than putting it into a sale that may have shady title provenance. There’s some serious MBS issues in Florida, too.
I actually do. Clear the pipes, finally flush the crap out and reset values where they need to be. Tough love, but it’d get us realizing that we’ve been gaming the entire economy for decades and then we’d get real in DC and while we were at it, Wall St. This can’t go on and we are not at the bottom until we’re at the bottom, meaning fixing the system and not playing around with it like the Timmy and Ben show.
One economic belch somewhere and the Jenga blocks tumble. Money isn’t supposed to work like that; why do we accept that it does?
i live in a van
i have a guitar-box
i can play parts of that neil young song
“down by the river”
and knocking on heavens door
no I actually do too
price discovery is not the easter bunny it’s a for real thing what happens
or at least it used to
PG is a nice little burg, Steph. Have them also look south as far as Cape Coral along the big bay. North Port is another huge value up above PC, but inland more.
Seriously, this house is gonna need a $7000 paint job in the next year or so, new gutters, the HVAC is 25 years old ($7000 at least when in goes poof) and new floors in the bedrooms. Not to mention the master bath is still circa 1986. That has been on indefinite hold since 08 and I’m a DIYer when it comes to most projects even major ones. Why would I want to sink another dime in a place that is already underwater and if the market really crashes who knows were it will settle out? I’m thinking I’d rather have someone else holding that bag of shit. Here or in Orlando, but the rental prices in Orlando (Vistiana area) are vastly superior to here. My son rents a POS apartment in a better area of town (Roswell) for $700 for a little over 800 sf.
It’s getting the hubby on board that is keeping us here right now. He understands approximately zero of what is ‘really’ going on. Low info voter and thinks I’m exaggerating. :head smacks desk:
Word…And have all of the banks write any left over trash off their books, instead of keeping it around desperately trying to use it against their asset requirements.
If some have to go down? Well, they’re the Wizards of Smart™ who willingly took on that much expoure in the first place. Not to mention all of the dough the Feds have laid on them over the last couple of years-at Main street’s expense.
There are some real good deals in Fla to be had Steph. I know you’re leaning towards renting, but considering the low tax rates and low prices, buying a good deal would be effectively the same thing.
Y’all who like it can have Florida. I’ve been working on convincing my born-and-bred New Yawkah wife that we should consider moving to Texas in the next few years. She was buying it, but the whole new arrival soon-to-be-delivered has kind of put a damper on all that. Her whole family still lives here, and mine are in Maryland and North Carolina, and she’d rather stay on the east coast.
Which, you know, I’m no New Yawkah by a mile, but I don’t mind living 250 meters from the shore here on Long Island.
commune?
c’mon u right wing hippies..
go for it
Well, that’s the fun part. To do that is to finally drive a stake through the hearts of Fannie and Freddie. While I love the concept, that comes with a really big bill we’re all going to pay. We need to do it anyway.
“Her whole family still lives here, and mine are in Maryland and North Carolina, and she’d rather stay on the east coast.”
2 words marcellus shale w. pa or oh (oh 4 utica shale underneath the other)
Have you kept up with the foreclosure debacle? There’s a whole lot of a lot of phony paper in Florida. Plus, I’m not particularly disposed to buying into an area with HOA or Condo fees that suddenly have to go from $100-250 per month to $800 or more cause half the homeowner’s are MIA and the landscaping/pool maintenance/roof repair has got to be done.
david koresch is online one
“now is the time to re-load”
so said the sarah\sarah maid of albion is a cool blog/ it’s about s africa
Real estate going in the crapper can be a buying opportunity.
The rumors swirling are that the mortgage deduction would phase out on $400,000 homes (mortgages??) and higher. Sure screws the pooch on California and most blue hells.
Oh yeah, it wouldn’t just screw people with mortgages who arranged their financial plans with that deduction making for more cash in pocket each year, but it would immediately drop low home values lower, rob seniors who own their homes outright of even more equity, and the new housing market would never be the same.
Say hello to an American middle class that, for renting or owning, would be doing it in homes a good 1000 square feet smaller … like the middle class in Europe or GI tract housing immediately after WWII.
And if something like that passed, I’d walk away from my underwater home in a heartbeat.
BTW, local tv ABC7’s reporter David Ono was invited to the White House to admire Obama’s crease and lick his ankles. I could only stomach a bit of the previews because there is something horribly wrong with Obama that he can engage in such egregious, bald-faced lies and it is even more horrifying that a member of “The Press” lets him get away with it.
I just have no words for such lying shit.
Hennessey:
The thing is, to the extent that this is a modification of Conrad’s vision of a Democrat Budget plan anyhow, why didn’t he simply take a normal approach?
Because, I’d suggest, he can’t even reach a consensus within his own damn party, that’s why. For all their pretense, the Democrats are less unified than they’d have us believe.
Here’s the #BalancedBudgetAmendment Twitter hashtag, populated mostly be me, using the contact information provided by Jeff. And, adding the Twitter @ddresses for those Senators with that capability.
RT’s welcomed.
we all live in a yellow submarine
cheese and onions
buy w. pa, se oh, north wva, housing. boom towns til the the baracky epa kills it.
chipotle sauce
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/07/20/dissatisfaction-with-obama-will-affect-democratic-lawmakers/
That’s how it’s going to go. That and people like Steve Wynn accidentally causing a cascade of others who think like he does but who’ve been silent to suddenly realize they are not alone, but outnumber the fascists. Bubble pops and Barry’s gone.
The Bat Signal goes up: DeMint warns that the tea party is losing ‘focus’
sdferr, Buffet is getting loose lips as well.
The TEA Party isn’t losing focus. If anything, it’s just trying to get a second wind.
bubble pops!
Jim’s just trying to help, I think. Again, Bat Signal.
Bubble pop blue, Bubble pop green, Bubble pop yellow and Bubble pop red.
I cannot figure the upside for the Dems to voting on this.
face it wif a grin
smilers never lose
and frowners never win!
JD: Walking around money? Typical lib figures if they throw enough money at a problem, the problem is solved.
I think they may find that all the money in the world won’t buy them enough votes for what they are selling this time around. The electoral mood of the silent majority feels to me to be decidedly Klingon. Revenge, dishes, some assembly required.
Insty links a USNews&WR piece, written by a guy who can say this:
so clearly not a fan of the R’s. But look at what he says about Obama.
You can fool some people sometimes
but you can’t fool all the people all of the time.*
I read that I wondered but that didn’t we used to sorta know that the president’s job was to act presidential whereas not-presidents maybe not so much?
even when bumblefuck is just striking a pose similar to what acting presidential might reasonably look like it’s like his obamawhore media thinks he should get extra credit
bertha the dead and bouncing elephant
lifes too short!
Sriracha!
I still mourn for Betty. But for a while there, she was back!
I live among insane people and I like it that way. I might be one of them.
This morning, on hard boiled eggs. Yummy.
The Vietnamese word for Sriracha is pronounced uck. We call it Vietnamese ketchup.
A quick look at the possibility of getting to these 23. Best shots: Nelson, Begich, Tester, Manchin, McCaskill, Baucus, Lieberman, Conrad.
Lieberman has nothing to lose, so he seems easy. And speaking of teh Jooos, where do you suppose this Beck thing is going?
This could get weird.
I wrote my Senator, Stabenow, but have little hope there.
There is a new PPP poll out which is interesting but I’m focused on this at the end of it.
I have an answer. Call it the 4th of July effect.
And in a Fox News poll:
Poll is of registered voters.
If you’re not thinking about buying a farm, you’re just not serious about what’s coming.
Either that, or you’ve decided that the Supreme Court is okay with The Man coming after Carin’s chickens because it impacts Tyson somehow, and so there’s no point in planning for anything anymore.
i ain’t gonna work on
maggies
farm no more
Mine way deeper, Darleen. I’ve been preaching that the entire system is an artificial one. It’s true. We’ve jacked ourselves up and over a vast chasm on the backs of greenbacks, which are monopoly money. We aren’t even close to the bottom of that black hole of debt.
You’re damn right that seniors get robbed. We all do. I see no way but to reform the entire monetary system and sadly, those most exposed to its current vagaries get hurt. We got it all horribly wrong in 1913, thanks to Wilson and the proggs.
you tax what you want less of
USA! USA!
lol
Sorry.
It doesn’t matter what they pass, even a balanced-budget amendment: they’ll just ignore it. What are we gonna do about it? Sue?
The other “Mark”, Steyn on the mainstreaming of “The T word”
And the “Morning Jolt” seems to have a clue as to the anonymous source of the Bachmann migraine story.
Richard Miniter: Why The Democratic Party Is Doomed
Paul Ryan hammers it home.
[…] our old pal Jeff Goldstein at Protein wisdom comes the news that the Senate will hold a vote on the Cut, Cap, and Balance legislation that was passed in the House of…: Now, here’s the thing: Reid is going to keep the Democrats in line (though ironically, he […]
[…] our old pal Jeff Goldstein at Protein wisdom comes the news that the Senate will hold a vote on the Cut, Cap, and Balance legislation that was passed in the House of…: Now, here’s the thing: Reid is going to keep the Democrats in line (though ironically, he […]
Jeff, if instead of ellipses you’d used dashes in those phone numbers, we could directly dial from these smartphones.
Sorry. I suck.
[…] it looks like the House Cut-Cap-Balance Bill will come up for a vote on closure this Saturday. Protein Wisdom (h/t Pasadena Phil) has a list of Senatorial contact information. Most of them are lost causes, […]
Those smartphones are kind of dumb, then. Dumbphones.
So I just read that Harry Reid is going to press a vote to table the CC&B, requiring only 51 votes to do so. Therefore, if there’s to be a vote, the Democrat Senators need to be overwhelmed by a tidal wave of public insistence on CC&B, in opposition to Reid’s move.
If the Senate doesn’t vote on CCB, I’d walk away from any further negotiation.
And if they don’t, fuck them all.
[…] Don’t let them get away with it. Boehner and McConnell, it should be obvious by now, were never serious about CCB; it was merely a symbolic vote to them, a sop to the conservative base. Meanwhile, they’ve been working on “backup plans” that, by their very existence, undercut the pressure CCB could have leveled on the Democrat Senators who ran on supporting a balanced budget. […]