VIA The AGONIST:

Aux keyboards, citoyens! Pelosi aide asks where are the faxes, calls, etc., to make the Speaker address single payer!

Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to contribute to a blizzard of faxes

Gob, at CorrenteWire, has posted about an organization, 1payer.net, which will fax your messages to Baucus, Pelosi, the WH, etc.

It appears that Congressional leaders are being deliberately dismissive of single-payer to the point of ludicrous statements. It's like they have put their fingers in their ears and are yelling "I can't hear you, I can't hear you." Here they are in all their Congressional member glory:

Baucus a few days ago: "Everything BUT single payer is on the table. Single payer is off the table."

Pelosi: "In our caucus, over and over again, we hear single payer, single payer, single payer. Well, it's not going to be a single payer."

Pelosi's aide: "Where are the phone calls, e-mails and faxes in support of single-payer? Speaker Pelosi has been in favor of single-payer for a long time. Now make us do it."

OK. We are up to the challenge. He wants to see the faxes. Let's break their damn fax machines with the faxes.

You can send a fax right now to Pelosi, Baucus, the aide and the White House.

Send one now and send another in a few minutes. Give them enough faxes that they have to run get more paper (or electronic ink, as the case may be.) Then when they have received all of these, we will do it again. And again. And we will print

them out and dump them on Pelosi's office desk.

So let them see what happens when they ask for faxes. Then maybe they will have to take their fingers out of their ears.

Thank You

Clark Newhall MD JD
Physician & Attorney
Law Office at
57 W. 200 South, Suite 101
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
http://www.cnewhall.com

If you are unsure about whether or not the sustained pressure is working... A little somethin' somethin' from last Sunday:

Dem lawmaker predicts single-payer healthcare

@ 10:50 am by Michael O'Brien

Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) predicted Sunday that the U.S. would adopt a single-payer, national healthcare system.

"It's in our face," McDermott told a university healthcare group in a speech, according to the Monterey County Herald. "We can't avoid it. That's why something is going to happen."

McDermott cited the confluence of several factors, chief among them the election of President Obama and the business community's desire to divest of healthcare costs, as driving the momentum for a single-payer system.

Someone Finally Noticed!

Tuesday, 28 April 2009 09:52 Clark Newhall

As of this morning, you have sent nearly 6000 faxes to the White House, Pelosi's offices and Baucus's office.  They are still coming in and there about 1100 faxes waiting in the queue.  At the rate of one fax every 30 second, that's a little over 9 hours worth of faxes still to be sent.  WOW.  And now we know that someone is actually getting annoyed.  I received this email late last night from another listserve I am on:

Dear Equal members,  I got an e-mail from an unhappy member of Speaker Pelosi's senior staff regarding the e-mail below, which apparently is being circulated anonymously.  I do not know who wrote it.  Please be aware that e-mails of this nature, especially when unsigned, are likely to alienate our potential allies in Congress, and may have exactly the opposite effect of what is intended.  Communications to members of Congress FROM THEIR CONSTITUENTS which are factual, respectful, and SIGNED are taken seriously on Capitol Hill.  Other forms of communication are counterproductive.  Our opponents are well-funded and their communications are likely to be well-organized and slick. Let's not imitate the loonies on the right by sending faxes like the one below, just because we are frustrated about the legislative process.  Let's focus on getting our allies to write and call their members of Congress, especially those on key committees, and set up meetings so that we can get our message in front of legislators and the American public.  Andy Calman MD PhD  Founder and National Chair  Physicians for a Democratic Majority  www.demdocs.org

The 'email' Dr. Calman is referring to is the very one we have been sending to our elected leaders, the Pelosi fax.  In other words, you have created something that single payer has never had: visibility.