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Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 4:03:58 PM
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Subject: DNC Statement on Republican Mob Rule
For Immediate Release
Date: August 4, 2009
Contact: DNC Press Office
Phone: 202-863-8148
Statement from DNC Communications Director Brad Woodhouse on the Republican Party and Allied Groups’ Mob Rule
The Republicans and their allied groups – desperate after losing two consecutive elections and every major policy fight on Capitol Hill – are inciting angry mobs of a small number of rabid right wing extremists funded by K Street Lobbyists to disrupt thoughtful discussions about the future of health care in America taking place in Congressional Districts across the country.
However, much like we saw at the McCain-Palin rallies last year where crowds were baited with cries of ‘socialist,’ ‘communist,’ and where the birthers movement was born – these mobs of extremists are not interested in having a thoughtful discussion about the issues – but like some Republican leaders have said – they are interested in ‘breaking’ the President and destroying his Presidency.
These mobs are bussed in by well funded, highly organized groups run by Republican operatives and funded by the special interests who are desperately trying to stop the agenda for change the President was elected to bring to Washington. Despite the headline grabbing nature of these angry mobs and their disruptions of events, they are not reflective of where the American people are on the issues – or the hundreds of thousands of thoughtful discussions taking place around kitchen tables, water coolers and in homes.
The right wing extremists’ use of things like devil horns on pictures of our elected officials, hanging members of Congress in effigy, breathlessly questioning the President’s citizenship and the use of Nazi SS symbols and the like just shows how outside of the mainstream the Republican Party and their allies are. This type of anger and discord did not serve Republicans well in 2008 – and it is bound to backfire again.
Do you resemble one of these right wing extremists or are you one of the Mob leaders? If you are, you should turn yourself in according to the White House.
“If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.”
Personally, I have read and re-read this memo and I think that I might be…minus of course the Nazi SS symbol…I do not have one of those. But I do evidently leak out ‘disinformation’…that being information that counters the effectiveness of their policies. Back to the Nazi symbols, who ever did bring that symbol could have been a white supremacist or they might have just recognized this ‘flag policy’ as eerily reminiscent of an old Nazi Germany policy. Who knows. There are crazy people out there, but I do not believe that these town halls have been hijacked. If you look at the polls, almost all of them show that people do not support this healthcare plan. Legitimate tough questions asked of these representatives are not being answered and evidence from academics and the CBO counter what the administration is saying. So please turn me and my site into the White House and be sure to tell them that I do not plan on stopping my opposition to their big government policies.
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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 Katrina and the Walter Reed Scandal, but the facts is they can and if we support them they will succeed.
The undertones during the Sotomayor hearings was that she was a judicial activist, which is backed up by the opinions she gave on numerous cases. You are welcome to read my posts on them if you wish. She had the opportunity to defend these positions during confirmation, but she chose not to. On several cases she completely ignored key components of the law, which should have been a red flag for any Senator; either party.
You have obviously never been in the military if you think that their health system is run well. Congressmen get to chose private healthcare from a pool of insurance options, it isn’t run by the federal government. The failure of Medicare and Medicaid (which are run by the federal government) is not limited to the past 8 years you allude to, 2 of which were run by the Democrats. These programs have been a disaster ever since their inception and should give everyone pause when the government wants to add even more to their plate.
Out of curiosity, do you approve of the current legislation? I, of course, do not because it does not address the problems with the systems that are failing now. It does not address the causes of health care cost increases, fix the tax structure to benefit ‘good hard working people’, or add any efficiency to the system. It does increase government power over our lives which is something our founding fathers fought and died to protect us from. You will always have corruption when people are involved whether it be government or private, but you fix that by not rewarding failure as our representatives are doing. You do not bail out companies such as AIG and GM for making poor business decisions. And for the record, I am the religious right and I am not extreme. Our country was founded upon Protestant Christian values and I think everyone can agree that the loss of these values can be attributed to many of the problems today.
The heat is on. It’s too dangerous for us out here now. They are on to us. The movement is over.
I am going under ground for the time being and I suggest you do the same TSC. Don’t stick around man! There’s no telling what they will do to you if you are captured.
From now on my only comunication will be via messenger pigeons. I will mail you one too. Wait..no, not mail. I will leave you one at that place, in that town, with the thing….
Don’t be a hero bro. Get out and get out now!
Not me…I always wanted to be a mobster…nows my chance…lol.
Paul does not get a pigeon.
Dude, I do not think Paul is coming back. I always scare them off with my logic and facts. Man, another reader gone.
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