Dear Congressman Arcuri,
Your recent flip-flop in the wrong direction on healthcare is a move so politically stupid, it is hard to summon the words to adequately describe it.
The only plausible reason you have to vote against Health Care Reform would be to possibly de-motivate the GOP base against you this coming November. But there's one slight glitch in that strategy: you already voted for the House Health Care bill.
The GOP attack ad on that issue has already been cut.
This way, you have the worst of both worlds- the tea-baggers hate you for voting for it once already, and now the Democratic base is going to desert you.
Furthermore, if Health Care Reform dies, you will be the first to go. In 1994, did all those Democrats who stood against the Clinton plan get a reprieve in the midterm elections? No. In fact, it was the moderates who opposed it who mostly got slaughtered.
Additionally, the consensus Health Care Reform bill is more fiscally conservative than the House version you voted for. There is no legitimate policy reason for a conservative Democrat to support the more liberal earlier house version and then vote against the more conservative consensus version. Are you really going to be able to explain that to the voters in your district? Even if people don't agree with everything politicians stand for, they hate someone they disagree with some of the time much less than a politician who flip-flops too much. Even someone as intellectually challenged as George W. Bush understood that.
In sum, please don't be a complete moron. Vote for the bill.
All the best,
Roatti
UPDATE: The WFP is now threatening to withhold its endorsement of Arcuri if he votes no and SEIU will actively promote a primary challenger if Arcuri indeed votes no. Again Mike, don't be a friggin moron. |
