Some good news on the mobbing front!
With conservathugs orchestrating a coordinated campaign with the GOP, anti-health care reform allies, tax foes, and far right Free Republic groups, democratic (and some republican) legislators in the South and the Midwest have been feeling overwhelmed at town halls. With many congressmen being shouted down by republican activists, many democrats have been fretting with how to counter the yelling and get those anti-reform activists to listen.
Well, Keith Olbermann may have shown just one way with Rep. Gene Green (D-TX) in Houston.
Such tactics as bringing up Medicare (or Medicaid ) may not direct the conversation into explaining the benefits of the developing health care reform. But, it's start..as democrats, we listen, try to explain, but - the American people gave the President Obama and the Democrats the responsibility of fulfilling national health care with a public option .
With strong majorities in the Senate and the House, there is no excuse for failure. At the least, the last eight years have shown us that.
"Moving on"
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We first heard from the birthers, with their fake “birth certificate” in hand and with their fake outrage. These are the same under tones that you saw from Republicans during the confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor, "you are not like us" or "you are too different", “you are not main stream”. And then they act surprised when people do not vote with them, they are lost, no core beliefs, too bad.
In my opinion the Republican Party has been taken over the most extreme religious right (people who love to push their beliefs on others while at the same time trying to take away their rights) and that’s who they need to focus on if they real want to win. Good Luck, because as they said in WACO, “We Ain’t Coming Out”.
It’s funny we hear Republicans say that they do not want “faceless bureaucrats” making medical decisions but they have no problem with “private sector” “faceless bureaucrats” daily declining medical coverage and financially ruining good hard working people. And who says that the “private sector” is always right, do we forget failures like Long-Term Capital, WorldCom, Global Crossing, Enron, Tyco, AIG and Lehman Brothers. Of course the federal government will destroy heathcare by getting involved, Oh but wait our military men and women and the Senate and Congress get the best heathcare in the world, and oh, that’s right, its run by our federal government. I can understand why some may think that the federal government will fail, if you look at the past eight years as a current history, with failures like the financial meltdown, Katrina, and the Walter Reed Scandal but the facts is they can and if we support them they will succeed.
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