We posted an action item on Monday, asking readers to make a 5-minute phone call to your legislators asking them to support H.R. 847, the 9/11 responders health bill that will finally make funding available to responders developing serious illnesses long after 9/11. Now, the bill’s sponsors say it’s likely to pass because “some” Republicans will support it, while another NY Daily News reporter notes GOP Representatives are saying it’s “too late” to get these people money… So what are we to make of that? Republicans hate first responders? Outrageous… Make that call right now. There are sick responders on the registry in every state (See Rep. Maloney’s site for this info), meaning some of their own constituents need help–SHAME on Republican legislators who refuse to help people widely regarded as real American heroes, people who dropped everything on 9/11 and got themselves to NYC, from across the entire country, simply to help people they didn’t know. Outrageous!