See Isakson on health care this week

August 10, 2009 by Ken Edelstein · Leave a Comment
Filed under: POLITICS 
U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson (left) with fellow Georgia Republican Saxby Chambliss (right) and your average constituent.

U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson (left) with fellow Georgia Republican Saxby Chambliss (right) and your average constituent.

Some guy named Barack asked me to go by U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson’s office in Cobb County this week to let Isakson know what I think about health insurance reform. OK, well, actually it wasn’t Barack. It was somebody who work for him. But I’m going anyway.

This seems like the most effective counter-move to the ill-informed mobs that are trying to shutdown open discussion on health care by shouting over anyone who disagrees with them and by hanging congressmen in effigy.

I’m disgusted by the bullies, and was a little worried last week that the country’s best chance ever at health reform would go to waste if better informed people didn’t speak up. So I signed up at Barack Obama’s Organizing for America site. And last night, I got an e-mail suggesting that I stop by Isakson’s office at a preset time.

Here’s what I’m going to tell Isakson (or more likely, his staff member): Read more

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