{"id":1020,"date":"2009-11-19T21:26:26","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T04:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2009-11-20T08:39:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T15:39:07","slug":"this-is-a-tester-only-a-tester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=1020","title":{"rendered":"This Is a Test(er), Only a Test(er)"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: It is important to communicate to Senator Tester that we are counting his votes for bringing the bill to the floor and for cloture as well as his vote on the bill. “Yes” votes for the procedural votes are as important as the final vote and we expect our senator to oppose those motions also.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"CV-9_Essex-kamakazi1\"<\/a>Apparently, Dingy Harry (Reid), Senate Majority Leader, has determined that the Japanese WWII Kamikaze pilots were onto a good thing and is jauntily leading his fellow Democrat lemmings on a suicide dive into political hell. Ergo, he has scheduled another Saturday night massacre whereupon the 2,074 page Obama-Reid-Pelosi Healthcare bill will be ramrodded down the throats of the American public to the probable detriment of several of his soon-to-be-former colleagues.<\/p>\n

One of them might be our own Jon Tester. <\/p>\n

The bill, as is, has more than a couple of contentious components: Mandatory abortion funding, arbitrary medicare cuts, and serious creative accounting gymnastics<\/a> that can’t pass the smell test even for the employee of the month at the sewage treatment plant. All in all, the bottom line is pretty much that the majority of Americans do not support this bill – and those that oppose the legislation are far more vehement in their position than those who support it. Hell hath no fury and all that. According to the recent MSU-Billings poll<\/a>, 74% of Montanans think that healthcare will be worse if the current legislation passes. That can’t make a politician feel all warm and fuzzy as he looks forward to an election in what was generally regarded as a pretty safe seat – up ’til now anyway. Recent hints that Denny Rehberg could be considering a challenge to Tester in 2012 just might be changing the perspective on Jon’s vote<\/a> this weekend. <\/p>\n

If you have a concern that you think Senator Tester might, should, or ought to consider be sure to contact him before Saturday:<\/p>\n

Sen. Tester
\nCapital One Center
\n208 N Montana Avenue, Suite 202
\nHelena, MT 59601
\nPhone: (406) 449-5401
\nFax: (406) 449-5462 <\/p>\n

In the meantime, go ahead and register your “vote” now…<\/p>\n