A lot going on today. First, the DNC is targeting moderate Democratic Senators in an effort to kill any filibuster. The RNC better respond in kind and target the same senators – and fast. Don’t forget to both call and email your own senator and let your voice be heard. Also, contact the RNC and encourage them to push back. I want to see some commercials countering the propaganda machine of the party of Obama.

ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: The Democratic National Committee is launching a new television advertisement today to press Congress to support President Obama’s health care plan — and is targeting moderate Democrats to come on board.

Pressuring Democrats to follow the president on health care reform marks a strategic shift by the DNC — and represents the biggest gamble yet by the president’s old campaign apparatus to turn the campaign’s 13-million-person-plus army into legislative action.

The ad — placed by the DNC’s Organizing for America arm, the offshoot of the Obama campaign’s lists of supporters — uses the voices and images of five people who shared their stories with the DNC in the hopes of pressuring Congress to act.

“It’s time,” the individuals say, one after the other.

More interesting than the message is who it’s being aimed at. One version of the ad will be placed in Washington, DC, and on news and information Websites — a typical strategy to reach opinion leaders.

A slightly different version — ending with a request for viewers to “call your senators” — will air in Florida, Nebraska, Indiana, Louisiana, North Dakota, Arkansas, Maine, and Ohio, according to a Democratic Party official.

With the exception of Maine and Ohio, each of those states is home to at least one moderate Democratic senator whose vote on health care is in question. Maine is represented by two moderate Republicans who top the list of potential GOP votes on health care reform; Ohio has one such Republican senator, in addition to a liberal Democrat.

While Democrats now control 60 Senate seats — enough to break a Republican filibuster — not all Democrats are backing Obama’s plan. Conservatives are continuing to balk at the price tag, as well as the proposal to establish a “public option” to compete with private health insurers.

The script of the ad follows:

Woman 1: “My son has cerebral palsy and epilepsy. He’s four.”

Man 1: “When I lost my job, I lost my health insurance too.”

Woman 2: “My health insurance wouldn’t fully cover me when I got sick.”

Man 2: “My father in-law walks with a limp because he didn’t have health care.”

Woman 3: “My husband’s job covered us, until he was laid off.”

Man 1: “It’s time.”

Woman 2: “It’s time.”

Man 2: “It’s time.”

Woman 1: “It’s time for health care reform.”

Voice-over: “The Democratic National Committee is responsible for the content of this advertising.”

TEXT ON SCREEN: “It’s time for health care reform. Join the fight: healthcare.barackobama.com.”

“It’s time for health care reform. Call your Senators: (202) 224-3121”

“Paid for by the Democratic National Committee. Democrats.org. Not authorized by any candidate of candidate’s committee. The DNC is responsible for the content of this advertising.”

Watch the national version of the ad HERE.

Watch the version of the ad airing in states HERE.

From Bloomberg: Obama May Rely on Partisan Vote for Health-Care Bill, Aides Say

July 15 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama may rely only on Democrats to push health-care legislation through the U.S. Congress if Republican resistance doesn’t eventually give way, two of the president’s top advisers said.

“Ultimately, this is not about a process, it’s about results,” David Axelrod, Obama’s senior political strategist, said during an interview yesterday in his White House office. “If we’re going to get this thing done, obviously time is a- wasting.”

The results the liberals are looking for: taking away your freedoms and pilfering your wallets. Their brains are a-wasting.

Michelle Malkin: Warning: More Obamacare/MSM theater on the way. Wow, and who would have thought cheerleading the role of the press. Oh wait, that would mean they are real journalists. Sorry. What a bunch of holla-back girls.

Also from Michelle: Document drop: CBO scores the health care takeover. Think you know how much this is going to cost you – think again.

And now for your daily dose of health care horror stories from countries with socialized medicine. Today, let’s look at Britain: A 9-month wait for arthritis treatment: Delay can mean a lifetime of agony for victims:

Guidelines state that patients should receive treatment within three months of the first symptoms appearing.

But the average wait is nine months – and GPs are not trained well enough to know what help to offer.

There is no cure, but experts say that if arthritis is diagnosed in the first three months, drugs can be given which limit its progression. This means the disease will not be as painful as it would have been if the condition was diagnosed later.

The study by the National Audit Office found that patients do not know enough about the condition, and therefore delay going to see their GP.

Between half and three-quarters of people with symptoms wait more than three months before seeking medical help, and about a fifth delay for a year or more.

GPs lack the specialist knowledge required to diagnose the condition quickly, and on average it takes four visits before a patient is referred to a specialist for diagnosis and treatment, the report adds.

Its author, Chris Groom, said: ‘This is a nasty disease, a progressive auto-immune disease, which attacks otherwise healthy joints. Early symptoms are joint pain and stiffness and it leads to inflammation and loss of strength.

‘It also affects other parts of the body, such as the heart and lungs, and is also associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease.’

If this is the type of care you want for you, your children, and grand children, then by all means, sit back and do nothing. As for me, I’m mad as hell.

Nothing more to say, for if I continue, the reader will only be exposed to an expletive filled tirade against stupidity. Does the GOP have the guts to win this, because Obama can be beat.

Gateway Pundit: Well Good Morning… Laura Ingraham Takes Juan Williams to Woodshed On Obamacare and Dems to Pass Sociailized Health-Care Within Weeks!.

A friend of mine, in a demonstration of an apoplectic fit bordering on near insanity, spent his morning worrying about a process in the Senate the would only require 51 votes to pass health care reform, bypassing the minority tool to block legislation known as a filibuster. “All hope is lost!” my friend screamed, and the subsequent tirade of expletives aimed at liberals and Obama truly a treasure to experience. Ready to throw in the towel, turn of the computer, and hang up the phone, his look of desperation and despair moved me into immediate action. Fear not, my friend! Spread the word! In an effort to lock out the annoying public from harassing their elected representatives, look for the bullying tactic of threatening the reconciliation process in the Senate to be used and reported on by the mainstream media in an effort to silence your voice.

But here is a little know secret that should be passed on to everyone you know: the reconciliation option is not all it is cut out to be. Check Wikipedia for the gory details. Personally, I recommend not wasting your time, as Mort Kondrake explains why the reconciliation option is essentially off the table and why you won’t find liberal Democrats panting in anticipation as they ponder its use. From Mr. Kondrake:

Liberal health-reform advocates have talked about ramming a reform plan – including a Medicare-like public insurance option – through the Senate with only 51 Democratic votes.

But a leading Senate player says it won’t work.

If an attempt is made to pass health reform under “reconciliation” rules – requiring just a simple majority vote – Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., told me the bill would be so pared down “you’d be left with Swiss cheese.”

Conrad also serves on the Senate Finance Committee, which will mark up its version of health-care reform this month.

Reconciliation rules, he said, require that a bill be scored as deficit-reducing over six years and that any substantive policy change in it also have a fiscal purpose.

The result, said Conrad, is that “you’d be left with a dramatically reduced package” that would fall short of comprehensive health reform.

“You would have a very hard time expanding coverage to the 46 million who don’t have it,” he said, and the “Byrd Rule” – requiring fiscal germaneness – could strip the bill of many of its policy provisions.

So, Conrad said, “health reform needs to be passed on a 60-vote basis, and that means it needs to be bipartisan.”

And that, he said, all but certainly rules out including a government-run “public plan” like Medicare designed to “compete with” – or replace – private insurance companies.

Read the whole article and once empowered against the coming onslaught of threats from the liberal left about this non-option, pick up that phone, turn on that computer, open that email and give it to them good.

Keep up with Michelle on stopping the cap-and-tax bill. If you can’t find enough information in her post, you are not looking closely enough. Here are some highlights:

• The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee begins hearings Tuesday, July 7th.
• Link to Heritage research analysis.
• Pork, pork, and more pork.
• Senators to target.
• Contact information for Senator McCain, a known environut with a propensity to ignore inconvenient facts.
• More Senate analysis of cap-and-trade targets from Temple of Mut.
• A Senate cap-and-trade vote analysis from Nate Silver

Read Megan Mcardle article – Political Constraints on Programs.

More health reform news from Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air. If you recall the song “The Trees” by Rush, the Maples are unhappy in their shade, dwarfed by the giant Oaks. The song ends with the line, “..and the trees are all kept equal with hatchet, axe, and saw”.

The Democrat’s plan to fund health care reform is to tax success. Mediocrity for everyone! Of course, don’t count on any liberal actually using a brain cell or two to figure out that most rich people, defined as those making over $250,000/year are small business owners. Or maybe they do know? I mean, socialism by design is the hatchet, axe and saw of exceptionalism. Misery loves company and, let’s face it, losers are miserable. The slackers, dope smokers, and brainless video game robots want everything for free, as long as you pay for it and they don’t.

For those of you half-wits who believe this is a good idea, ask yourself this: Is your job safe? It just might be you handed that pink slip by those evil profiteers. Good luck out there if you voted for Obama because chances are you are working for the man and may not be gainfully employed much longer. Nutjobs.