{"id":1891,"date":"2009-11-06T14:58:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T19:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2009-11-06T15:13:17","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T20:13:17","slug":"does-pelosi-have-the-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1891\/does-pelosi-have-the-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Pelosi Have the Votes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer are publicly predicting that the House health care \u201creform\u201d bill, which is scheduled to be voted on tomorrow, will pass.\u00a0 But several news reports indicate that both are scrambling today to find the votes.<\/p>\n<p>Even the ultra-liberal Moveon.org, which is pulling out all the stops in support of government-run health care, is worried.\u00a0 In an e-mail\u00a0sent out to liberal activists earlier today, the group was panicked.\u00a0 The e-mail reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear MoveOn member,<\/p>\n<p>After months of build-up, tomorrow is THE big House vote on landmark health care reform. But according to news reports, <strong>Democrats don&#8217;t yet have the votes to win!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is crunch time. \u2026 Right now, it&#8217;s all coming down to a key group of moderate Democrats who are on the fence \u2014 and we hear they&#8217;re getting inundated with calls from health care opponents. \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There you have it.\u00a0 The phone calls, letters, faxes and e-mails against ObamaCare are working.\u00a0 Pelosi and Hoyer are scrambling for votes.\u00a0 Their ultra-liberal allies are panicked.\u00a0 An overwhelming majority of Americans are making their voice heard AGAINST\u00a0House Democrats&#8217;\u00a0plan for a government takeover of health care.<\/p>\n<p>Keep it up!\u00a0 Pelosi\u2019s 2,000-page\u00a0&#8220;reform&#8221; bill can be defeated.\u00a0 But the Americans people must continue to \u201cinundate\u201d Congressional offices between now and tomorrow.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To be patched through to your Member of Congress, call 202-224-3121. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Find your Representative and his or her direct contact information <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/take-action?path=cfif\/dbq\/officials\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Send an e-mail to your Representative <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/take-action?path=cfif\/issues\/alert\/?alertid=13867531\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer are publicly predicting that the House health care \u201creform\u201d bill, which is scheduled to be voted on tomorrow, will pass.\u00a0 But several news reports indicate that both are scrambling today to find the votes. Even the ultra-liberal Moveon.org, which is pulling out all the stops in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,111],"class_list":["post-1891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care","tag-nancy-pelosi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1894,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions\/1894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}