MoveOn Hijacked
Tags: Leftist Groups, Obamacare, Second American Revolution.
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Local MoveOn.org members had penciled in on today’s schedule a protest in front of Senator John Cornyn’s Spring Valley Road office, during which they had hoped to pressure the senator to support President Barack Obama’s public health care legislation. But when Paula Anderson, a MoveOn.org member and spokeswoman, showed up at 11:30 a.m., she found another contingent had beat her to the proverbial punch: A large number of Dallas Tea Party members were already set up, voicing their opposition to the proposal.
Anderson was stunned: “We really did not expect them to show up.” She estimated the crowd at about 130. “From our perspective we took names of everyone there, and we had about 30 people,” she told Unfair Park. “And I would assume they maybe had 100.” As it turned out, according to Jessica Sandlin, Cornyn’s Texas press secretary, Tea Party-hearties also showed up to health-care legislation rallies in Austin and in San Antonio…
The TEA Party movement will be in the driver’s seat at least through 2010, and perhaps all the way in to 2012. Ignore it at your peril – and that goes for both left and right politicians who wish to ignore it.
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8 Responses to “MoveOn Hijacked”
Caucus of Corruption
In the driver’s seat? Oh please!
Oh, they’re MUCH too amusing to be ignored.
Gotta love a group who’s taxes were lowered by Obama shouting “Taxed Enough Already.”
Plus, I am counting on the TEA movement to keep the “Obama is a Kenyan” mantra alive.
Liberal comedy gold.
“Gotta love a group whose taxes were lowered by Obama shouting ‘Taxed Enough Already.’” OH please bozo, I have not seen more in my paycheck yet, I must have missed this tax cut! How on earth is Obama going to really pay for his and congress’s spending spree on the backs of the “wealthy” alone? You have got to be joking! He will have to raise taxes on you, there is only so much money that he can get form the “wealthy”. These Tea Party people are seeing that things are not adding up and taxes will have to rise, you on the other hand are in denial. You’ll be crying once the taxes go up, you bubble will have broken.
As for this “Kenyan” thing, I am waiting to see if there is any legit claim here before I would even dream of jumping on board, I stick with the real world, I don’t hang with the moonbats.
Oh, they’re MUCH too amusing to be ignored.
Seriously–they’re comedy gold. And this notion that they’re going to be in the driver’s seat is even funnier.
“As both Democrats and Republicans on the Hill balk at the cost of Obamacare and threaten to derail the president’s prize legislative agenda item because no one has been able to figure out how to pay for it, Obama is now hinting that the middle class may be in for a nasty surprise in the form of higher taxes in order to close the gap in spending.
Jennifer Rubin at Commentary noticed a subtle shift in the president’s rhetoric at his press conference:
The president, in one of the more curious passages last night, said:
I don’t want that final one-third of the cost of health care to be completely shouldered on the backs of middle-class families who are already struggling in a difficult economy. And so if I see a proposal that is primarily funded through taxing middle-class families, I’m going to be opposed to that.
Primarily? Mickey Kaus spotted that one, explaining:
In standard Washspeak, this means Obama is open to a health reform that taxes middle class families as long as it isn’t “primarily” or “completely” funded by taxes on middle class families. But 49% funded by taxes on middle class families? . . . However you interpret these sentences, it’s hard to see how Obama hasn’t given a flashing green light to non-trivial tax increases on middle class families.
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So what happened to the cross-his-heart, absolutely won’t raise taxes on people making less than $250,000 (other than the cigarette and energy taxes he has favored long ago)? Yes, Robert Gibbs has been hedging for some time on whether that was a “pledge” or a “promise” and whether the president is doing a 180 on it. But this is the clearest signal yet that he’s coming after non-rich voters to pay for expanded access for the uninsured - and for the rationing of their own health care.
Jonathan Cohn of The New Republic’s health care blog The Treatment quotes Obama from his WaPo interview as opening the door to taxing health care benefits:
More important, though, Obama is giving his blessing to two variations on the exclusion cap. In one, a cap kicks in gradually, so that it exerts some downward pressure on medical costs over tie. In another, it’s the insurance companies that are taxed. As far as I know, neither of these generates a huge amount of revenue, so it’s not tremendously helpful when it comes to raising revenue. But the first and quite possibly the second do bend the cost curve over the long run. Or, at least, the Congressional Budget Office believes they do.
Excluding health insurance from tax breaks has long been advocated by proponents of nationalized health insurance as a way to force people on the government plan. It will make private insurance more expensive – same result if Obama taxes the insurance companies who will simply pass on the costs to consumers.
The White House is getting desperate enough to risk the wrath of their base supporters in trying to get this monstrosity passed. Good luck with that, guys.”
So bozo, orlando, so you two idiots think that what we are concerned about is all yucks, guffaws and ROFL. Well when the president that you voted for hits you with higher taxes to pay for his socialized health care program, will you still be laughing at the Tea Party movement?
fartotheright, I am in agreement with you on the Kenyan thing—not making accusations, just wondering why it is such a big deal to just produce the damned original birth certificate and get it over with. I am not big on conspiracy theories, having been warned off on my favorites: Nazi space aliens controlling Joe Biden, or some such thing.
But logic says that if someone is facing a challenge and has the means to answer it quickly and efficiently it does not make sense to spend a million dollars to fight it.
For example, I got an IRS notice that I had not filed my 2008 taxes. Hmmmm. But a second look showed that although the address had my husband listed as deceased, the notice still had his social security number on it. Did I spend a fortune to fight this? No, I merely sent in a copy of his death certificate and a copy of the tax return I had filed under my own SS number.
It is not that hard…….
Mark already closed comments on the Birther thread. Kook Birthers might want to stay on topic or this one could get closed too.
Lead,
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