Republican Whip Eric Cantor has helpfully produced a list of the 69 Democrats who have expressed reluctance and concern over the health reform bill Speaker Pelosi is trying to browbeat them into voting for.

Print it out and start calling,  especially if you’re in one of their districts.    The goal is to keep the bill off the floor,  not depend on Senate wusses to kill it.

Hoyer is  pushing back the vote.   Call!!

I’ve just talked to a cousin who is amongst the thousands who have descended on Capitol Hill — aren’t cell phones wonderful?   Someone leaked Speaker Pelosi’s plan to use the Capitol Hill police to block protesters,  so that idea was squashed.   I’m serving as an unofficial clearinghouse to look up office and phone numbers for Congress critters and staffers.

The lines are apparently very long to get into the office buildings, but the only people arrested thus far are the 9  Code Pink members who refused to leave Sen.  Joe Lieberman’s office, though MSM has refused to identify the group.

I suspect a number of Democrats have fled to avoid the taxpayers who are making enough noise to be heard even by His Oneness a few blocks away.

I have now completed calling all of the Blue Dogs,  but it was difficult getting through.    The Capitol switchboard hasn’t crashed as it did twice the week of the last amnesty for illegals push,  but it is certainly staggering under the call volume.

KEEP IT UP!!

UPDATE:   Philip Klein has a post up at the American Spectator about this dangerous,  destructive, totally out-of-control mob.

Brian O’Connell also has a post up with some links.

And a reader at  The Corner sends in a lovely photo with a hopeful sign.

UPDATE II:  WorldNetDaily has some  good pictures as well.

New Jersey Democrats are terrified about the gubernatorial race, so they’re doing exactly as you would expect — putting a convenient fix in place just in case the luminous,  repeated presence of His Oneness and all the behind-the-scenes help of his staff aren’t sufficient to convince Jersey voters to re-elect Mr.  More-of-the-Same.

Do you think it Is unreasonable to ask the citizenship status of  those filling out the census?   Democrats do,  more particularly what’s  being described as a “coalition of black, Latino and Asian” Democrats,  who falsely claim that Republicans don’t want to county everybody.   Read Andy McCarthy’s  explanatory post at The Corner.

And then consider just how seriously any of the Democrats have taken their many oaths of office.   Most of the states with high illegal immigrant rates are under Democrat control.    They depend on wrongly inflated population numbers to get more federal dollars and to retain undue influence.

For those of you harboring any faint hope that Congressional Democrats care what more than half of America is saying, FORGET IT!

They’re off on a junket to Honolulu — they need to check on stimulus spending, you know,   and they need to get rested up for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays,  and really,  what better place to escape all the stress and tension of DC as it deals with unreasonable taxpayers than the perennially sunny beaches of Hawaii?

The line of the week comes from Sen.  Tom Coburn:

‘What is it we don’t want the American people to see?’

God bless Dr. Coburn!

And in a display of rank cowardice, rather than allow Rep. Darrell Issa  (ranking Republican on the Oversight Committee) to call for a vote on whether to subpoena documents involved in the program that gave sweetheart mortgages to at least four Democratic officials,  the  Democrats fled out a back door to avoid the meeting.

Don’t be fooled by the hits Democrats have taken on the health care debate.    I agree with the  analyst who thinks they will cram through a bill,  regardless of public sentiment.

The link  to the Human Events article is  here if you’d rather go straight to it.

If you have a Democratic Congress critter,  burn up the phone line.  This is not about health care, or reform.    This is a power grab,  pure and simple.    47% of Americans pay no income tax.    Democrats have worked furiously for decades to raise that number to over 50%,  figuring that the non-payers will consistently vote against those who pay.     That would result in a permanent Democratic majority,  not only in Congress,  but in the states as well.

There are a few other options,  but the best by far is to put so much pressure on the Fools on the Hill that they become afraid of we the people.     Remember it was Lenin who first implemented “free universal health care.”    He considered it one of his crowning achievements,  which led to everything else.

Gregory Kane has a trenchant column on race everyone should read.    He uses a nickname for Rep.  Charles Rangel which made me laugh out loud.    And he asks a question no liberal dares answer.

I’ve long referred to the New York congressman as Rangel the Ready — a bit of a play on Ethelred the Unready, a long-forgotten English king –   because  the motor which runs his mouth apparently has no “OFF” switch,  although I’ve noticed that as the tonnage of his ethics problems has increased,  he’s rather less of a camera hog than he used to be.

The Washington Examiner had a good piece on his big pharma connections,  and there was some trouble about his niece as well.  Whether traveling or making contradictory claims in mortgage documents,  or failing to disclose substantial assets,  Charlie  has claimed the prize for absent-mindedness,  and it’s contaigous  for his staff.     House Democrats are trying to save their colleague,  but he’s apparently making campaign contributions only to the three on the Ethics Committee.

One might expect the Examiner to say Rangel should resign,  or the Buffalo News,  but when the Washington Post says he should step aside as chairman of Ways and Means,   it’s big trouble.   Charlie knows it,  because he is now playing the race card.

Lest you believe Democrats are operating in good faith on health care reform,  read this account of the Senate Finance Committee killing Jim Bunning’s amendment,  which would have required the committee to have the legislative language of its health care bill evaluated by the Congressional Budget Office before voting on it

The Bunning amendment would also have required the committee to have the legislative language of the bill,  along with the CBO cost estimate,  posted on the internet for 72 hours before a vote.

So now the CBO scoring will be done only on the plain-English version,  which all but guarantees that estimate will be meaningless.    Ted Kennedy’s staff will be burning the midnight oil crafting legislative language to stuff in all the goodies within the legislatese which they are superbly skilled at producing.

One thing in our favor is that We the People,  having delivered something north of half a million people to DC on 9/12,  have developed a voice.   Even if you were in attendance only in spirit, you OWN part of that voice,  so use it.   If your Congress critters are  Republican, call their local or DC offices, or both, to stiffen their opposition against the putrid health reform bill.    If they are Democrats,  make them aware that you know this is a thinly disguised takeover of another sixth of the economy by the federal government and that you won’t stand for it.

Philip Klein thinks the Democratic threat of forcing health care through via reconciliation is a bluff,  because the procedure has to be used for tax and spending matters.

More interestingly, is the threat a no-win for His Oneness?

That means no exchanges,  forced coverage for pre-existing conditions, etc.     But I don’t put it pass the Dems to try to break those rules as well.    Do you?