Health Care/Socialist Medicine

Sometimes leaders lie to their followers to improve morale. People will lie to a mortally wounded person and tell the person everything will be alright.

MoveOn.org, incredibly enough, is telling its supporters it is “winning” the fight to force government-run healthcare down the throats of Americans. It also keeps pushing its push poll that falsely reports that Americans support the socialist public option.

Here is the group’s latest email –filled with the usual lies and distortions about what the public wants– to supporters:

Dear MoveOn member,

After a few weeks of health care craziness, there’s good news: we’re winning on the ground. Lots of town halls are now dominated by supporters of health care reform. The vast majority of Americans want the choice of a public plan.¹ And a powerful bloc of progressives in the House is standing strong on real reform.

The really bad news? The media’s still acting like President Obama’s health care plan is on the skids.

If we don’t turn the conventional wisdom around before Congress begins voting on health care, we could be in big trouble.

We’ve got a plan to make it happen. It starts tomorrow with major vigils across the country to bring the media’s focus back to the real people suffering under the current health care system.

And then we’ll shake up the media story again by going on the offensive against Republicans, with a new series of tough ads that call them out for their ties to the health insurance industry.

But to actually make a big splash, we need to raise $185,000 today—and that’s going to take at least 50 donations from people in Washington. Can you chip in $20 right now to help out?

[LINK OMITTED]

Right now, Republicans in Congress think they can get away with viciously slandering President Obama’s plan for a public health insurance option—even though 77% of Americans say they want to have the choice of a public plan.²

These Republicans need a reality check. Every member of Congress should know that opposing health care reform isn’t just morally wrong—it’s politically dangerous and unpopular.

That’s why we’re planning some very tough new TV ads. They’ll let voters know exactly how much money their representatives have taken from the insurance industry, whose top goal this year is to kill the public option.

These ads are a surefire way to put Republicans on the defensive, and show that Americans want their representatives to stop siding with insurance companies by obstructing health care reform.

To hit our goal of $185,000 and get these ads on the air, we need at least 50 people in Washington to step up. Can you chip in $20 right now to help out?

[LINK OMITTED]

Thanks for all you do.

–Nita, Kat, Stephen, Joan and the rest of the team

Source:

1, 2. “New Poll: 77 Percent Support ‘Choice’ Of Public Option,” The Huffington Post, August 20, 2009.

http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51799&id=17087-10523989-_Ao3JTx&t=5

Want to support our work? We’re entirely funded by our 5 million members—no corporate contributions, no big checks from CEOs. And our tiny staff ensures that small contributions go a long way. Chip in here.

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Peter Roff of U.S. News & World Report writes that the Obama administration is being sued for its healthcare opponents snitch list:

A doctors’ group and an organization that advocates for the interest of the inner-city poor have joined forced to sue the Obama administration, charging that its abortive effort to collect criticisms made by those opposed to President Obama’s plan to change the U.S. health care system infringed on their First Amendment rights.

In a complaint filed Thursday in U.S. District Court, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and the Coalition for Urban Renewal and Education said the White House had attempted to “unlawfully” collect information on protected political speech when it asked Obamacare supporters to report any negative comments about the proposal to a U.S. government email address, flag@whitehouse.gov. [...]

Well, not exactly.

Communist China has, though, finally admitted it harvests the organs of executed prisoners and uses those organs for transplantation. The organs account for two-thirds of China’s transplant organs.

Perhaps ObamaCare would actually work if America started doing the same thing.

Just trying to help.

Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) hasn’t been dead for 24 hours yet MoveOn.org is already invoking his memory to press for the Sovietization of America’s healthcare system.

I received the following in my email inbox a half hour ago:

Dear MoveOn member,

The Lion is at rest.

Senator Teddy Kennedy passed away last night and our movement lost a hero. His leadership, his vision, and his passion will never be forgotten.

As we grieve, we must honor his memory and re-dedicate ourselves to his fight. Right now, let’s listen to his words. Below is a powerful video that lots of MoveOn members are passing around this morning:

[LINK TO VIDEO OF KENNEDY SPEECH ON MOVEON WEBSITE]

Tonight, please light a candle in your window to memorialize him.

Tomorrow, as Senator Kennedy said, “…the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.”

Tomorrow, let’s re-commit ourselves to achieving the thing that mattered most to him: Quality, affordable health care for every single American.

Thank you for all you do.

–Justin, Adam, Amy, Anna, Annie, Carrie, Christopher, Daniel, Danielle, Eli, Emily, Gail, Ian, Ilya, Ilyse, Joan, Jodeen, Julie, Kat, Keauna, Laura, Lenore, Marika, Matt E., Matt S., Matthew, Melanie, Michael, Nita, Noah, Peter, Sasha, Scott, Stephen, Steven, Susannah, Wes, and the entire MoveOn team

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PAID FOR BY MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION, http://pol.moveon.org/. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee. [...]

Desperate to save ObamaCare, Organizing for America, the Saul Alinsky community organizing branch of the Democratic National Committee, is hosting an online forum with President Obama today at 2:30 p.m. Eastern time.

You can watch online at http://my.barackobama.com/watch.

Here is the schedule according to the above linked website:

Program Begins at 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time

The President will update supporters on the fight to pass real health insurance reform. He’ll lay out our strategy and message going forward and answer questions from supporters like you.

2:30 Program Begins

   •  Addisu Demissie, Political Director, Organizing for America

   •  Governor Tim Kaine, Chairman, Democratic National Committee

   •  Jeremy Bird, Deputy Director, Organizing for America

   •  Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)

   •  Beth Kimbriel, OFA Volunteer from Chester, Virginia

   •  Mitch Stewart, Director, Organizing for America

2:45 President Barack Obama

New Majority points out an article about how a “coalition of groups supporting President Obama’s health reforms have hired the former firm of Obama adviser David Axelrod.”

After repeatedly denying that it was sending out unwanted email spam about President Obama’s plans for the healthcare industry, the White House did an abrupt about-face, according to a news report.

White House new media director Macon Phillips wrote a blog post indicating ”that independent groups — he didn’t name them — had signed-up their members to receive regular updates about Obama’s projects, priorities and speeches,” the report said. The blog post also said:

Email updates from the White House have played a central role in our effort to push back on misinformation and get the facts out about health insurance reform.  These updates will continue to be an important source of information about the President, his priorities and opportunities for public participation. 

 

It has come to our attention that some people may have been subscribed to our email lists without their knowledge –- likely as a result of efforts by outside groups of all political stripes -– and we regret any inconvenience caused by receiving an unexpected message.  We’re certainly not interested in anyone receiving emails from the White House who don’t want them.  That’s one reason why we have never — and will never — add names from a commercial or political list to the White House list.

Rev. Harry Jackson smacked around MSNBC’s lefty blowhard Ed Schultz in a show about what position Christians should take on President Obama’s proposed seizure of the healthcare sector.

An oldie but a goodie…

Here is a 1961 video narrated by Ronald Reagan spelling out what’s wrong with socialist medicine.

AARP hates its members, doesn’t care what they think, and wants them to behave and shut up.

Philip Klein doesn’t quite use my words at the American Spectator but he gives AARP the sound thrashing the worthless organization deserves.

“AARP is not an organization that represents its members, but a group that treats its members as dupes so it can suck up their money and use it to advocate a liberal policy agenda supported by its Washington leadership,” Klein writes.

Here’s a Fox News video showing AARP spokesjackass Drew Nannis attacking his own membership for not obediently taking what AARP is dishing out: