Fw: Catfood Commission on steroids

[Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>]

they don't like the debt ceiling deal either

----- Forwarded Message -----
>From: "Brian Sonenstein, Firedoglake.com" <http://www.firedoglake.com/~act>
>To: Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
>Sent: Monday, August 1, 2011 10:58 AM
>Subject: Catfood Commission on steroids
>
>URGENT: Call your member of Congress to oppose the Super Congress!
>Click here for phone numbers and a script.
>Hi Noelle,
>Congress will vote on the debt limit deal tonight that includes the Super 
>Congress -- a Catfood Commission on steroids -- tasked specifically with 
>cutting Social Security and Medicare benefits over the next few years.
>You and 50,000 other activists have pledged not to vote for anyone who votes 
>for benefit cuts - and voting to create a Super Congress is a de facto benefit 
>cut. It's time to make that pledge heard once again.
>Can you call your member of Congress IMMEDIATELY to oppose the Super Congress? 
>Click here to find your Rep.'s phone number and a sample script.
>The Super Congress will make it easier to fast-track wildly unpopular benefit 
>cuts into law while shielding those who vote for cuts from accountability. If 
>we don't act now, this 12-member panel will negotiate cuts behind closed doors 
>that will spell disaster for the social safety net.
>Thank you in advance for your help. I can't promise we'll be able to stop the 
>Super Congress, but we can at least let our elected officials know where we 
>stand and how we'll vote in 2012.
>Deepest thanks,
>Brian Sonenstein
>Digital Strategy Director
>Firedoglake.com