Klobuchar’s Cone of Silence in Washngton

I got an auto response from Senator Kobuchar last night. I had emailed her My Pledge post. Clearly she didn’t read it and hasn’t been paying attention to how her party is actually trying to pass the Health Care Takeover. As in, pass it with out really passing it.

Here’s the paragraph that made me red in the face that this woman is actually a United States Senator.

As you know, I am committed to enacting reform that will provide stable coverage and lower costs for Minnesota families, businesses, and individuals.  Health spending in our country currently accounts for more than one-sixth of our economy.  It is imperative that we act to make the system cost-effective, proactive and stable.  As Congress works toward solutions to rising health care costs, I will continue to push for a bill that includes strong cost reforms, protections against insurance company abuses, comprehensive Medicare coverage and debt reduction.

Then there was this sentence a little later.

Currently, procedural options for the bill include having the House of Representatives pass the Senate health reform bill with changes and send it back to the Senate for a vote, or begin work on passing a revised bill.

She really needs to start reading the news, talking to her constituents, and put down the White House talking points.

Washington Post headline: House may try to pass Senate health-care bill without voting on it

Which is a procedural straw man that the Democrats are praying they can hide behind in this storm of opposition.

She hasn’t had a townhall on the contents of this bill. I’d pay to get a chance to have her sit down and listen to citizens tell her about how terrible this bill is, but instead she is hiding in Washington like the rest of her Democrat party allies. The idea is to take over 1/6th of the economy (Klobuchar’s own figure) by pretending that reforming Health Care in this way will not destroy the private outlets for choice. The fact is that she knows that this bill will turn the Health Care industry into one that the Government runs exclusively, and she is too afraid to come home and face her constituents who know what Obama and her plan is.

Shame on you Amy Klobuchar. Despite the fact that left wing special interests funded you campaign, you are still supposed to pretend to care what the citizens back home think. Instead you are hiding in the cone of silence that is the Washington bublle of special interest and partisan talking points.

I dare you to come home to Minnesota and sit down with a broad swath of your Constituents and listen. No private roundtables at your union pals’ headquarters. No DFL only events.
I challenge you to come home and hold a real town hall before any votes on this Health Care takeover. I challenge you to stand up to your Democrat President and ask him the tough questions we are. The tough questions on this bill that no one in the White House or Democrat Party leadership will even acknowledge. I dare you and your fellow Congressional Democrats from Minnesota to come home and hold a series of open townhalls on this bill.

Failure to do so will result in a backlash that will put you at odds with not only your constituents, but your 2006 campaign message.

The choice is yours. Either you represent the citizens of Minnesota, or the high power liberal special interests in Washington.

I know you won’t dare do this. I do, know that writing this was a complete waste of time. But I figure I would give you a fair chance to act like the Senator you said you would be. The truth is I know you are a rubberstamp for President Obama and the liberal special interests.

I will make sure that I spread that message far and wide here in Minnesota so that other Minnesota voters know that too.