No astroturfing here!

at the interior of these buses. We’ll show you the undercarriage later.

If this isn’t astroturf, I don’t know what is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB9KWq10VbY

that the reporterette tossed out that little tidbit of information in the most mundane of fashion, never bothering, based on all the charges of ‘astroturfing’ from the Dems, to dwell on the incongruity of ‘busloads of supporters’ arriving at the event.

Somewhere in journalism school, I do believe they remove the ‘reasoning’ and ‘critical thinking’ genes from these people.

I keep seeing a bunch of people on the left posting and asking questions of seniors at the rally along the lines of “do you participate in Medicare?”

I am sad to see that so many seem to be flummoxed by this question.

It is a simple 2 part answer.

1) You paid for it through exorbinant taxes all of your working life, and since you have paid for it, you would be an idiot not to accept it when you qualify.

If you were to not accept it, that would be a foolhardy purely ideological move, akin to someone on the left voluntarily overpaying on their taxes because they think the government should have a larger share of their wages.

2) Medicare can only exist piggy-backing on private health insurance. It could not offer nearly the level of service it does, were it not for the significnatly higher fees the doctors and hospitals receive form people who pay anything closer ot the list price.

If the government were to strong arm doctors for an even larger share of their patients the way they do for medicaid, doctors woudl dry up…no one would get into that game.

I live in a country with a public and private system (Germany) and this dearth of doctors is exactly what has happened here over the past 20 years. Wage arbitrage with eastern european doctors moving in to fill some voids has made the situation bearable,a dn the private patients keep some talent in the country, but otherwise they would be doomed.

It might also make sense to bring up any supplemental insurance you might have on top of Medicare, as most seniors of any means do – to bring the substandard care up to the level you are looking for.

So, if one of those left wing loons comes at you with, “you are on government health care!”

Then just ask them if they currently overpay their taxes voluntarily?

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=82521

I read Camille Paglia’s piece in Salon today if only b/c I was intrigued by the title “Obama’s Healthcare Horror” So even Salon (or at least some there) are beginning to jump ship. But I did get a kick out of this quote:

“As a libertarian and refugee from the authoritarian Roman Catholic church of my youth, I simply do not understand the drift of my party toward a soulless collectivism”

Wow. And wow.

get that 2000K people for Obama were bussed in…..it never occurred to her stupid little head that they were being bussed in and was the real news of hypocrisy to what The One had been saying.

This is our tax money hard at work for Thugs, ACORN and ALL of Obama’s corruption!! This needs to be stopped! Obama needs to be impeached and the rest need to be recalled!

This is our tax money hard at work for Thugs, ACORN and ALL of Obama’s corruption!! This needs to be stopped! Obama needs to be impeached and the rest need to be recalled!

Nothing surprises me anymore.

How bot a town hall of random citizens chosen by lottery? That is what I would like to see.

Mr. H
http://www.allhands-ondeck.blogspot.com/

Just wondering why they needed 8 of them.

If I were him, I would probably bring in ringers too.

After all, we are well aware of how he performs when his questions aren’t scripted (ie: “spread the wealth”) and even sometimes when they are (ie: “police acted stupidly”).

Let’s face it, this guy needs all the help he can get. He probably had training wheels on his bicycle until about age 15.

Oh well, maybe one day the media will fall in love with me and convince the sheeple to make me President too.

Obama’s people have tried everything to marginalize those who oppose him on health care. We have been called “astroturfers” even though they bus in supporters to drown out (along with the drums) the real grassroots – the opposition to ObamaCare. Besides being called Nazis, unAmerican, rude, etc., they have now sunk into hypocrisy.