Healthcare Bill Fact of the Day
Health Care Bill Fact of the Day: Once Obamacare Takes Effect, Your Only Alternative is Government-Approved or Government-Run Health Insurance
1. Set up a meeting with your Congressman
2. Let’s Talk Astroturf: Democrats Are Paying People to Show Up at Congressional Townhalls
3. What if Obama Threw an Astroturf Party and Nobody Came?
4. Obama campaign flooding legislators’ offices with supporters in effort to give appearance of public support for unpopular health overhaul
5. Obama Anxiety Gives Bob McDonnell Momentum in Virginia
6. Stop the Madness
7. Democrat David Scott’s Town Hall Tirade
8. Democratic National Committee Accuses Eric Cantor of Stoking Nazism
9. Obama: “We have rescued our economy from catastrophe”
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Healthcare Bill Fact of the Day
Health Care Bill Fact of the Day: Once Obamacare Takes Effect, Your Only Alternative is Government-Approved or Government-Run Health Insurance
House Resolution 3200, the “Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009,” fulfills President Barack Obama’s promise that “If you like your health plan, you can keep it” – technically.
Under the Democrat-sponsored bill, existing insurance policies are “grandfathered” into the new, overhauled national health care system, meaning that you have the option to keep your health coverage plan and provider even if they don’t conform to the new standards set by the federal government.
However, beginning the year this bill takes effect, individuals who leave their current insurer for any reason – whether it be moving to a different state or changing to a different employer – will be forced to purchase a new government-approved private plan or to enroll in the government-run, taxpayer-funded “public option” for their health coverage, rather than being allowed to choose coverage similar to that which they had before the advent of Obamacare.
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1. Set up a meeting with your Congressman
Right now the leftists are setting up one-on-one meetings with their members of Congress to talk about healthcare reform. While we’re at townhalls protesting, they are having sit down meetings with Congressmen. We can do the same.
Go here. You’ll find your member of Congress and his in-district phone number. Set up a meeting — just you and your Congressman. Tell him to vote against the Democrats’ healthcare proposals.
2. Let’s Talk Astroturf: Democrats Are Paying People to Show Up at Congressional Townhalls
So I received an email/comment this morning about a craigslist ad soliciting health care activism for money. “Activism for money,” I thought!! Was this it at last? The missing link Democrats have been searching for? Obamacare opponents turning up at town halls really are a mob?
We really are nothing but a slew of paid hacks drummed up by the promise of easy cash by cynical Obamacare opponents to create an artificial appearance of opposition?!?
Ummmm, no.
Democrats, on Craigslist, are offering to pay people to show up at healthcare townhalls to support Obamacare.
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3. What if Obama Threw an Astroturf Party and Nobody Came?
This is the third time in four days that Barack Obama, community organizer extraordinaire, has called on his legions to turn out in support of his policies. The first of those emails was purportedly from Obama himself, calling on supporters to turn out at “thousands of events” across the country; the second and third were calls to telephone and visit, respectively, legislative offices around the nation in an effort to show support for his badly flagging health overhaul proposal.
Because these emails come with relative frequency, I didn’t fully appreciate the temporal proximity of those three emails — or what that meant — until now. It is clear as day: the Obama administration, and its network of paid community organizers and agitators, is growing incredibly desperate.
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4. Obama campaign flooding legislators’ offices with supporters in effort to give appearance of public support for unpopular health overhaul
As ordinary citizens across the country continue to ratchet up their level of interest and activity in the legislative process, President Obama and his campaign arm, Organizing (formerly “Obama”) For America, are struggling to cope with the tufts of grass sprouting up in the midst of their carefully astroturfed national field.
Last week, in what may have been the first instance of an American government officially calling on one group of American citizens to protest against, “get in [the] faces” of, and shout down another group of their own countrymen, President Obama authorized his campaign arms, the DNC and Organizing for America, to call opponents of his health overhaul plan a “dangerous mob” and to encourage supporters to counter (violently, if necessary) reasonable demonstrations and to put a stop to their questioning of elected officials.
Obama followed this up by sending an email via OFA in which he declared the health care reform debate “the moment [his] movement was built for” and called on his remaining campaign supporters to attend “thousands of events” across the country to crowd civic-minded Americans out of public events and to create, through organized efforts, the appearance of actually-nonexistent support for his extremely unpopular health overhaul.
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5. Obama Anxiety Gives Bob McDonnell Momentum in Virginia
Call it Barack Obama backlash. Yesterday, as I knocked on doors for Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell, I encountered a variety of interesting folks. Many were willing to listen, some were desperately seeking alternatives to the Democrat Party, and, in a handful of cases, a few were eager to share their astonishment at the leftward direction of America.
How this bodes for McDonnell’s campaign in November will depend on how well he motivates these voters to pull the lever in an off-year election. One woman, who told me she was a Republican, confessed she doesn’t vote in non-presidential years, reflecting one of the challenges for McDonnell. Yesterday, however, she was in the minority. Obama seems to have angered so many people that even his supporters are having second thoughts just 200 days into his presidency.
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6. Stop the Madness
Every so often the leftish bent of the news media causes its fellow members of the Democratic Party to believe their own bullroar. Their own talking points are echoing from all their trusted news sources. This can put Democrats, especially Democratic Party office holders, into a kind of frenzy not unlike that of a dog chasing its own tail. They come to believe that they are on a sacred mission doing the people’s work, and that they are proceeding to great acclaim. Faster and faster they must run.
Once this phenomenon starts, the Democrats almost never escape before they do something profoundly stupid. And sometimes, profoundly harmful as well.
This is going to be one of those times. Stupid, and harmful, in great measure.
Many Democrats, including many editors and reporters, have come to believe that hundreds of middle-aged and older people — people with incomes and lives, and plenty else to do — have taken part-time jobs as rent-a-mobs to shill for insurance companies, or the RNC, or somebody. They think this because that is how Democrats create similar events: they pay college students or homeless people to show up at a certain place at a certain time to wave signs and put on a display for their fellow Democrats in the media, who dutifully report that the citizenry is outraged at whatever the Democrats paid them to be outraged about.
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7. Democrat David Scott’s Town Hall Tirade
The scene of a Metro Atlanta town hall meeting quickly deteriorated when Democratic Congressman David Scott (GA-13) suddenly became enraged, and, in a breathtaking display of congressional machismo, began berating constituents.
Scott displayed his temper during a question-and-answer period when David Hill, a local resident and doctor, questioned the congressman over his support of President Barack Obama’s proposed single-payer health care system.
“Why are you voting for a health care plan that is shown not to work in Massachusetts and why are you going to institute that in a nation-wide manner?”
With a look of confusion on his face, the congressman first quietly asked an aide, “Is that the type of bill they got going on?” Then, reassured by staff that the bill Hill referenced was, in fact, the bill before Congress, Scott proceeded to respond, insomuch as the Congressman’s angry tirade may be called a response.
“I’m listening to my constituents, OK,” Scott said, with a heavy and awkward emphasis on “my.” “These are people who live in the 13th Congressional district, who vote in this district. That’s who I’ve got to respond to, OK. Right, alright.”
Grimacing and sternly brandishing his finger at Dr. Hill, Scott’s anger intensified, as did his rhetoric.
Local Atlanta NBC affiliate WXIA-TV reports that Hill, a verified resident of Georgia’s 13th district, has attempted, on multiple occasions and all in vain, to secure sit-downs with the incensed Congressman, however.
Before yielding the microphone to a staffer, Scott gave an austere warning to Dr. Hill and others present: “Don’t, don’t come and take advantage of what these individuals have done. You want a meeting with me on health care, I’ll give it to you. You come on August 24th. On August 28th.”
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8. Democratic National Committee Accuses Eric Cantor of Stoking Nazism
The Democrats just can’t get their talking points right on Eric Cantor (R-VA).
It was only last year when Cantor’s name was mentioned as a possible Vice Presidential pick that the Democrats wanted everyone to know he’s a Jew. They didn’t mention the religion of any of the other potential candidates.
Now, however, they are accusing Eric Cantor, who is Jewish, of fostering Nazism in the United States.
Hari Sevugan of the Democratic National Committee sent out an email earlier today with this:
“It’s disgusting that rather than condemning this hate filled symbolism and mob activity, the highest echelons of the Republican party from Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck on down, are encouraging it – and that the likes of Michael Steele and Eric Cantor are fanning the flames of this is reprehensible. The repeated use of Nazi symbolism at community meetings by the Republican incited mob proves that these protests have nothing to do with health care, but rather that the Republican party is willing to sink to the lowest, most despicable levels to accomplish their goal of “breaking” President Obama.”
That’s just how desperate the Democrats are — accusing a Jewish Republican of fanning the flames of Nazism and the use of Nazi symbols.
I would have liked to have gotten a comment from Eric Cantor on this, but he is in Israel this week. Ironic.
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9. Obama: “We have rescued our economy from catastrophe”
There is the predictable woofing coming from the White House on the heels of the Commerce Department report that joblessness has stagnated in the 9+% range. Most wouldn’t think that is a great accomplishment but I guess you have to look for the good news where you can find it.
The facts speak for themselves. There has been a loss of 2.87 million private sector jobs on Mr. Obama’s watch. The number of Americans who have been without work for at least 27 weeks, and are still bothering to look, has increased by a bonejarring 88%.
