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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: thundley4 on August 25, 2009, 11:04:11 AM
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Faced with a souring public mood on health care reform, Democrats and their supporters are launching a national grassroots push Wednesday to show lawmakers that the majority of Americans still support overhauling the system.
Reform supporters are planning to hold more than 500 events between Wednesday and when lawmakers return to Washington Sept. 8, ranging from neighborhood organized phone banks to professionally staffed rallies with hundreds of people.
The Democratic National Committee and its grassroots arm, Organizing for America, are helping to organize the effort along with the Health Care for America Now, a group pushing to create government-run insurance plan.
“In these last few weeks of recess we want to demonstrate the energy, passion and commitment that the American people have to health insurance reform so that when members return after Labor Day they know that they can turn their attention to getting this done because they have the backing of the American people,†said DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse.
Supporters have their work cut out for them. Many lawmakers were thunderstruck over the August recess by the anger and outrage expressed by their constituents in town hall meetings across the country. And in poll after poll, support for reform has eroded throughout the month.
But Democrats and their allies insist that the majority of Americans still support reform and have organized the grassroots campaign to buck up lawmakers as they get ready to head back to Washington.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/26409.html#ixzz0PD9RMyUZ
Grassroots my ass, now we are going to see the real Astro Turfing at work. I'll bet these rallies get mega coverage from the MSM.
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Grass-roots rallies don't have school buses in the parking lots and pre-printed signs with ACORN and SEIU logos on them.
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Grassroots my ass, now we are going to see the real Astro Turfing at work. I'll bet these rallies get mega coverage from the MSM.
Damn it Chris, you posted almost exactly what I had just typed. :-)
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heh... :-)
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My God, they really DO think we're that stupid, don't they?
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My God, they really DO think we're that stupid, don't they?
Not you, just everybody else.
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Hi,
The country knows darn well their supporters are nothing more than PAID protesters. The press will pick up on it but America knows it is bullshit! :bsmeter:
regards,
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