White House asks all good comrades to inform on their neighbors who spread disinformation about ObamaCare
By W.C. Varones ~ August 5th, 2009 @ 8:48 pm
The official White House blog:
There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.
In the spirit of co-operating with Dear Leader, we at PoliPundit urge good citizens to e-mail flag@whitehouse.gov and report the following traitors who claim that ObamaCare is a stalking horse for the elimination of private health insurance:
- Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) at a Health Care for America Now rally: “And next to me was a guy from the insurance company who argued against the public health insurance option, saying it wouldn’t let private insurance compete. That a public option will put the private insurance industry out of business and lead to single-payer. My single-payer friends, he was right. The man was right.”
- Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) told Single Payer Action: “I think that if we get a good public option it could lead to single-payer and that is the best way to reach single-payer. Saying you’ll do nothing till you get single-payer is a sure way never to get it. … I think the best way we’re going to get single-payer, the only way, is to have a public option and demonstrate the strength of its power.”
- Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein at the Democratic National Convention last year: “They have a sneaky strategy, the point of which is to put in place something that over time the natural incentives within its own market will move it to single-payer.”
- Noble Prize winning New York Times columnist Paul Krugman: “[T]he only reason not to do [single-payer] is that politically it’s hard to do in one step…You’d have to convince people completely give up the insurance they have, whereas something that lets people keep the insurance they have but then offers the option of a public plan, that may evolve into single-payer.”
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August 5th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
Can Ya Smell the Fear? Fear and Loathing in D.C.?
“Fear is an emotional response to threats and danger. It is a basic survival mechanism occurring in response to a specific stimulus, such as pain or the threat of pain . . . Fear should be distinguished from the related emotional state of anxiety, which typically occurs without any external threat. Additionally, fear is related to the specific behaviors of escape and avoidance, whereas anxiety is the result of threats which are perceived to be uncontrollable or unavoidable:” Wikipedia.
Fear also triggers the age-old dilemma of whether to strike out or to hightail it to safer environs, the fight or flight option.
Congressional Dems evidently have chosen to strike out and fight on the Obamacare debacle, although their fighting methods are more akin to those of a 6 year old girl who chooses to strike back by screaming hysterical lies rather than directly confronting the opposition.
Wikipedia distinguishes between fear and anxiety but there really isn’t much difference with the Democrats on this issue: Their only external threat is truth and honesty and both terrify them. Admixed with a distinct loathing for conservative principles, it’s a potent combination.
I’ve seen videos of a number of those townhall-type meetings that reflected a genuine concern and, yes, outright disgust and deep angst on the part of the citizenry. The attendees, too, are fearful but not afflicted with baseless anxiety.
See a few relevant videos here http://bit.ly/2f8nAG, here http://bit.ly/194wyZ, here http://bit.ly/ICP8A, and here http://bit.ly/108jlE.
Their fear, anger, and disgust are well-founded in the belief that governmental nitwits will soon be determining what health care they get and, literally, deciding whether it’s their time to shuffle off this mortal coil.
Liberals are many things but, usually, not stupid. It will be a long, hot August for them if they continue to allow popular dissent.
Those townhalls will soon devolve into . . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)
August 6th, 2009 at 6:44 am
Malkin had something about that program I saw too.
Rand announces his candidacy. He says he wants to go to Washington because debt is consuming the U.S. and he wants to vote against all the republican and democrat government budgets.
August 6th, 2009 at 7:22 am
Will joke leaf now be turning us in to his leader?
August 6th, 2009 at 7:35 am
Clinton hostage rescue stage craft.
But when will the Obama release his abductees\hostages that he’s holding in Guantanamo for much longer period than N Korea had the journalists?
But… John Stewart makes fun of the Clinton coverage: THE BIG DOG IS BACK! THE BIG DOG IS BACK! THE BIG DOG IS BACK!
August 6th, 2009 at 8:02 am
I just emailed the whitehouse something similar to this post. It seems to me it would be good to inundate them with these types of messages.
August 6th, 2009 at 8:02 am
The “blue Dogs”don’t know what to do. Most of them represent districts that didn’t vote for Obama. Will they stand with their constituents,or with Obama,Pelosi,the AFl-CIO,and that ilk.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Rand Paul’s first interview with Glen Beck? Paul talks foreign policy with Glen Beck.
August 6th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Those Birthers and Tea Baggers are Cindy Sheehan and Hugo Chávez crazy. Orly Taitz is the poster child of the nutwing right.
August 10th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
An Open Letter of Rebuttal to Our House Democrat Leadership
Dear Speaker Pelosi/Rep. Hoyer:
Your joint article in USA Today on August 10th, 2009 has come to my attention. Frankly, it is extremely disturbing, offensive, and reflective of a deep-seated ignorance of who and what Americans are and what rights and privileges were endowed upon us by the Founding Fathers.
Word is, you guys are much too busy to read so in the likely event neither of you perused the article, you can catch it here: http://bit.ly/LXwEh
Headlined, ” ‘Un-American’ Attacks Can’t Derail Health Care Debate,” in that article you see fit to describe sincere and honest dissent as “un-American.”
I regret that I have to inform you it is both very American and it is a sacred right guaranteed under the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America to publically address issues with which the people disagree.
It is unfortunate that the Constitution does not impose term limits on our representatives and, obviously, Congress has not seen fit to self-impose such limits.
One result has been career politicians, such as yourselves, who have been too comfortably, and too long, ensconced in their positions. Another result is that you have lost touch with the pulse of the people you represent. A third and perhaps most egregious result is that you have forgotten the fundamental reality that in our democratic republic you work for us, and not vice-versa.
The widespread protests against ostensible “health care reform,” popularly known as Obamacare, are not in any way illegal, immoral, or uncalled-for.
You hypocritically state in your article that, “We believe it is healthy for such a historic effort to be subject to so much scrutiny and debate” and that, “The dialogue between elected representatives and constituents is at the heart of our democracy and plays an integral role in assuring that the legislation we write reflects the genuine needs and concerns of the people we represent.”
Words are cheap, Madame Speaker and Democratic Majority Leader Hoyer. I include those pictures as a reminder of who you are since I’m certain you rarely have the nerve to look at yourselves in a mirror.
There is indeed “an ugly campaign” . . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)