--or at least, get your advocacy into the Senate Finance Committee's permanent record.

In my email today I find this Single Payer Action Page:, which enables you to send single payer advocacy to your Congresscritters and the President, and " ALSO turns your comments into an actual pdf file and sends it as an attachment DIRECT to the Senate Finance Committee, meeting all their *restrictive requirements to make it part of the permanent record."

Here's part of what they have to say:

[snip]

Single Payer Action Page:

Our action page tells you EXACTLY what you are signing on to, the stated subject line in red and in quotes on the action page "Put Single Payer Health Care On The Table Now", and the action page below sends nothing else in your name but that AND any personal comments you wish to add.

Single Payer Action Page: http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum982.php

Not only does the action page above send your message in real time to all your members of Congress, it ALSO turns your comments into a actual pdf file and sends it as an attachment DIRECT to the Senate Finance Committee, meeting all their restrictive requirements to make it part of the permanent record. There is NO other action page anywhere that does anything even remotely like this server process coding miracle. We know, because our programmers worked many hours in the middle of the night to make it happen.

And most of all, please understand that of all the huge lies that they have told us, there is ONE lie at the heart of them all. Lies like they were going to end the war in Iraq, when they had no intention of doing any such thing, when the plan has always been and REMAINS to keep at least 50,000 troops in that country until the end of time, that they were going to do something to help struggling homeowners, when the plan both with the last administration and with this one was always to loot the public treasury for trillions of dollars, a massive transfer of wealth to the Wall Street con men who caused the whole financial crisis in the first place.

We could go on and on, but there is one lie at the root of them all.

Do you know what it is?

The mother of all lies. The lie they use again and again to keep us from bringing about real change. The biggest lie of them all. Bigger than "compassionate conservatism", bigger than "the war on terror", bigger than "weapons of mass destruction", bigger than "the trickle down theory", bigger than "torture keeps us safe", yes, even bigger than "looking forward not backward" or "change we can believe in".

Do you know what the biggest, most diabolical lie they have ever told us is?

The BIGGEST LIE of ALL: that we the people do not have the power to change any of this.

Do you not understand your power? Do you not understand that they are shaking in their socks right now in fear that you will FINALLY get it, that there is NO power without the consent of the governed, and that all you have to do is say "No more" in sufficient numbers, and we the people will be free.

Their position is so WEAK, so lacking in merit, so indefensible, they are so afraid of the power of our positions that they have to resort to police oppression to try to shut us up. That is why they need to call on "more police" to keep single payer advocates from even having a speaking seat at the table, to try to keep their voices OUT of the media. Because if the public for one moment was exposed to an actual fair debate, the phony "fair debate" would be seen for the total charade and sham that is it.

We don't need more police. That is not the health care plan we are calling for. We need need more doctors, and nurses, not more insurance company administrators awarding themselves outrageous bonuses to deny suffering people in pain the health care they deserve.

Because what we must understand at the end of the day is that we have no enemy greater than our own defeatism. It is the lie they tell us to tell ourselves, without which they have NO power at all besides the gun they can point at our heads. And all you have to do to change ALL of this right now this instant, is to submit the REAL action page below.

Single Payer Action Page:

And yes, you can also respond to this action through the new Twitter gateway. Just send the following Twitter reply, and add any personal comment you like.

@cxs #p982

And if you want a step by step explanation of how to set up the Twitter thing here is the link for that.

Twitter Activism Step-By-Step: http://tcxs.net/step_by_step.php

(Don't know about the Twitter thing as I don't go there...)

*I'm not quite sure what they mean by "restrictive requirements", but possibly this Finance Committee page on public comments has a clue, though I don't see the "restrictive requirements", either here or in the committee's published Rules of Procedure.