Synergy: Senate Cloture Vote Coincides with the Million Med March

Senator Harry Reid has scheduled a vote on cloture for health care reform legislation for tomorrow evening. It’s an odd time to schedule the vote because grassroots conservatives have been planning a nationwide “Million Med March” tomorrow.

No doubt, Reid has the bare minimum necessary for his cloture vote, but it seems tone deaf for him to aim for a Saturday when local media should also be covering a protest event with liberty-loving medical doctors.

I’d like to see people attend the Million Med March tomorrow and email their local television and news stations with photographs and interviews with doctors. Be clear: If the newspaper covers the cloture vote in the Sunday and/or Monday papers, they need to report comments from these doctors and observations of the unrest over the vote at home in order to communicate any semblance of objectivity. With a little work, Reid’s decision to push forward with the vote this weekend should mean enhanced visibility for the “Million Med March” and potentially more embarrassing coverage for Democrats in battleground and conservative states.

To learn more about the “Million Med March,” please feel free to click on the thumbnail link, below. The site offers contact information by state and an online map of where tomorrow’s events will be held:

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