Aug 07 2009
Rightwing Groups Organize Astroturf Campaign to Defeat Health Care Reform
Conservatives are already celebrating the delay in health care legislation as a victory to quash reform. Now that Congress is on recess touring their districts to interact with constituents, the fight has been moved to localized town hall meetings. Right wing groups like Americans for Prosperity, and their front groups, like Patients United, have descended on Congressional Democrats supporting a public health care option, including Lloyd Doggett of Texas, Patrick Murphy of Pennsylvania, Tim Bishop of New York, Frank Kratovil of Maryland, Steve Kagan of Wisconsin, and Steve Driehaus of Ohio. A video of a right-wing mob facing down Representative Doggett in Austin, Texas has gone viral. The activists are largely the same groups that organized the so-called Tea Party demonstrations earlier this year around the economic stimulus legislation. Their defacto allies in the health insurance industry are busy monitoring their progress by sending staffers to 30 town halls meetings in states across the country. Meanwhile, a new online video produced by Brave New Films exposes the mind-bogglingly vast salaries and stock options of health insurance CEOs, juxtaposed with the routine denial of life-saving patient services.
GUEST: Lee Fang, blogger at ThinkProgress.org.
Rep. Diane Watson – CD 33 (Hollywood, Los Feliz, Silverlake, Koreatown, mid-Wilshire, Crenshaw, Ladera Heights, Baldwin Hills, View Park)
Friday, 08/07 01:00 PM – 03:00 PM: Open Small Business Forum – Los Angeles District Office, 4322 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angelos, CA, 90010
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard – CD 34 (Downtown Los Angeles, Chinatown, Westlake, Boyle Heights, Commerce, Downey, Huntington Park, Bellflower, Torrance)
Saturday, 08/08 09:00 AM – 02:00 PM: Open Foreclosure Forum – Downey Adult School, 12340 Woodruff Avenue, Downey, CA, 90241
Rep. Adam Schiff – CD 29 (Burbank, Glendale, Altadena, Pasadena, South Pasadena, Monterey Park, Alhambra, Temple City)
Tuesday, 08/11 07:00 PM – 08:30 PM: Health Care Town Hall – Alhambra Civic Center Library Community Room, 101 S. First Street, Alhambra CA.
5 Responses to “Rightwing Groups Organize Astroturf Campaign to Defeat Health Care Reform”
are there any people attending these rallies that are simply there to express their opposition to the plan Congress is proposing?
Astroturfing? Like Organizing for America who is running ads on Craigslist to pay people to support Obama at these events? How about this?
http://nygoe.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/seiu-hires-illegal-aliens-to-do-the-astroturfing-real-americans-wont/
I hope you are NOT suggesting that people “crash” these Town Hall meetings that are designed for constituents within those districts. It is not helpful to inflame people by accusing them of being “astroturf” protesters . . . or phoney . . . when it seems clear that they are concerned Americans just like you. People should calm down, get to the facts if they can . . . determine if the Bill is too ambiguous in parts and should be made clear . . . it is NOT helpful to start a war against fellow citizens. If we don’t get health care reform . . .we are ALL to blame
I have read HR-3200 and took the time to learn of it’s true intent. If you voted Democrat, You voted for Green Eugenics! Now it seems in addition to Green Eugenics, you voted for a Death Cult full of “First Class Psychopaths”. Continuing in the tragically ironic tradition of racist, eugenic proponent and Planned Parenthood founder, Margaret Sanger we have euthanasia being incorporated into the Totalitarian National Healthcare grab (her monstrous goal was to do away with black people…). In addition to killing the unborn we have the influence of such people of National Science Advisor Robert Holdren (A Doctor Strangelove for our time…) ensuring the pulling the plug and killing of the grandma, and other undesirables. Then we have the genteel Ezekiel Emanuel M.D. PhD. Dr. Emanuel is a noted Bioethicist and Oncologist. He is also a well known proponent of Euthanasia and Green Eugenics. Dr. Emanuel is head of President Obama’s National Heath Care Advisory Board. His brother, the Intrepid Rham Emanuel is President Obama’s Chief of Staff. His other brother Ari Emanuel is Michael “Sicko” Moore’s Hollywood Agent. President Obama’s friend and fellow Harvard/U. Chicago Professor Cass Sunstein is White House Director of Regulatory Affairs. He is also a Social Justice Medicine and Euthanasia/Eugenics Proponent. What is next?
The first victims of the National Socialists of Germany were not Jews, Gypsies, etc. (or Romini as they prefer to be called) but handicapped, socially and mentally “unfit” beginning in 1936. The great C. Everet Koop wrote a book titled “What Ever Happened to the Human Race”. Indeed what ever happened to the Human Race? Other “Monsters in Human Form” include De Camp Professor of Bioethics, Peter Singer at Princeton University. He would allow and encourage Infacide, Parricide, and Suicide of the undesired people. Human Monster and Professor is the son of Jewish parents who escaped Austria in the late 1930’s when the NAZI’s took over. I am sure his parents are very proud of that their son turned out to be a Human Monster just like the Communists and NAZI’s. The banality of true evil rears it’s ugly head again. I recommend that everyone read Professor (and Rabbi) Richard Rubenstein’s 1983 sleeper classic, “The Age of Triage, Fear and Hope in an Overcrowded World”. Since 1973 over 35 million babies have been aborted. Over 14 million of the babies aborted since 1973 have been black babies. Yet black or African American’s only comprised 13.4% or 40.9 million people. Planned Parenthood concentrates their clinics in Black and other minority communities. Under President Obama the disproportionate ratio black or African American abortions and other killings will most certainly increase. Perhaps our new president and his follow Eugenics Proponents may yet be the greatest disciples of the Human Monster Margaret Sanger yet!
P.S. The followers of Socialism (including the National Socialist of Germany) killed over 100 million people in the last century. How many will they kill in this one? I feel the largest holocaust in human history has yet to be!
who are you people?