BLUE AMERICA JUST SAVED A TON OF MONEY-- AND WE KNOW EXACTLY WHAT TO DO WITH IT

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The e-mail had already gone out this afternoon-- a full page in the Bloomington Herald Times, sure to hit the highest concentration of Democratic voters in Indiana's 9th CD-- when we got the word a minute of two later: reactionary Democrat Baron Hill had raised the white flag and agreed to vote with the rest of the Democratic Party to override Bush's heartless and toxic veto of the S-CHIP law overwhelmingly passed with bipartisan support in both houses of Congress. Hill had been stunned by the 40,000 robo calls Democrats in IN-09 had gotten which reminded them that their Democratic congressman was voting with the far right of the Republican Party to wreck health insurance for needy children.

The full page in the Sunday newspaper would have been too much for the already vulnerable conservative congressman to absorb. So he released a half-assed statement belatedly jumping on the band wagon. We were able to cancel the print order just in time. And that was really lucky because we have lots of good Democrats in Georgia's third CD who need to hear about how their congressman, Jim Marshall, stands on S-CHIP, known as PeachCare in Georgia. We'll explain that tomorrow, but if you want to help now-- or just get a preview of Digby's brilliantly written ad, you can jump over to the preview page.