For months, New Jersey activists have been staking out the local offices of New Jersey Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (NJ-11), a onetime Republican moderate pulled relentlessly right in recent years. While voting for almost all of the Trump agenda, Frelinghuysen stunned the world on March 24 with a pivotal statement against the AHCA on grounds that the bill "would place significant new costs and barriers to care on my constituents in New Jersey. In addition to the loss of Medicaid coverage for so many people in my Medicaid-dependent state, the denial of essential health benefits in the individual market raise serious coverage and cost issues."
Noble words, but now Frelinghuysen is wavering -- with Ryan reportedly threatening to strip him of his treasured chairmanship of the House Appropriations Committee -- and Jersey progressives are going all-out to provide the counter-pressure, as in this petition. With the AHCA risen from an unquiet grave, we are reviving old (month-old) arguments. So why not a months-old songbook? Here's one that I had to serenade solo in Morristown upon one freezing day. I can't say it's "sung to the tune of Hamilton's My Shot, but it's intoned to something like the rhythm of it:
Our Shot
We are not throwing away our...SHOT
We are not throwing away our..SHOT
Ya know, we're just like Obama,
all action, no drama,
and we're not throwing away our..SHOT.
We're gonna stand outside your windows, Frelinghuysen
chantin singin make-all-kinda-noisin
until you let us freezin girlz and boyz in
to prove to you that Ryancare is poison --
Noble words, but now Frelinghuysen is wavering -- with Ryan reportedly threatening to strip him of his treasured chairmanship of the House Appropriations Committee -- and Jersey progressives are going all-out to provide the counter-pressure, as in this petition. With the AHCA risen from an unquiet grave, we are reviving old (month-old) arguments. So why not a months-old songbook? Here's one that I had to serenade solo in Morristown upon one freezing day. I can't say it's "sung to the tune of Hamilton's My Shot, but it's intoned to something like the rhythm of it:
Our Shot
We are not throwing away our...SHOT
We are not throwing away our..SHOT
Ya know, we're just like Obama,
all action, no drama,
and we're not throwing away our..SHOT.
We're gonna stand outside your windows, Frelinghuysen
chantin singin make-all-kinda-noisin
until you let us freezin girlz and boyz in
to prove to you that Ryancare is poison --
