HCAN Playbook For Thwarting Town Hall Protesters

[Chris]

Some background on HCAN from Michelle Malkin...

HCAN has a $40 million budget, with $10 million pitched in by Atlantic Philanthropies – a Bermuda-based organization fronted by Soros acolyte Gara LaMarche. Also in the money mix: Notorious Democrat donors Herb and Marion Sandler, the left-wing moguls who made billions selling shady subprime mortgages and helped Soros fund his vast network of left-wing activist satellites. By their side is billionaire Peter Lewis of Progressive Insurance, whose “Progressive Future” youth group has dispatched clueless volunteers armed with clipboards and literature bashing Rush Limbaugh and Fox News to scare up support for Obamcare.

And two more left-wing heavyweights joining the HCAN parade: the corruption-riddled SEIU (which has battled numerous embezzlement scandals among its chapters across the country while crusading for consumer and patients’ rights) and Obama’s old chums at fraud-riddled ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

ACORN and HCAN are linked by left-wing philanthropist Drummond Pike, who heads the non-profit Tides Foundation/Tides Center. As the tax disclaimer for HCAN discloses, “HCAN is related to Health Care for America Education Fund, a project of The Tides Center, a section 501(c)(3) public charity.” For decades, the Tides Center and its parent organization, the Tides Foundation, have seeded some of the country’s most radical activist groups of the Left, including the communist-friendly United for Peace and Justice, the jihadist-friendly National Lawyers Guild; and the grievance-mongering Council for American-Islamic Relations.

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/06/24/who%E2%80%99s-funding-the-obamacare-astroturf-campaign/?print=1

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/documents/2009/08/hcan-playbook-for-thwarting-town-hall-protesters.php?page=1

[DixieBelle]

Where in the hell is the "Right Wing Extremist" version of this? I can't help but feel like ONCE AGAIN the GOP is playing checkers instead of chess.

[Chris_]

Here's the list of their supporters:

http://healthcareforamericanow.org/site/content/who_we_are/

...and just a few on the national portion of the list:

ACORN
AFL-CIO
HIV Medicine Association
Human Rights Campaign
LULAC
MoveOn.org
NAACP
National Abortion Federation
National Council of La Raza
Planned Parenthood of America
The Congressional Black Caucus Health Brain Trust

It's a real who's who of liberal, moonbat orgainzations.

[Chris]

You forgot one...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/

[JohnnyReb]

That was a cheap handbook to publish.....they just took an old 1960's hippie handbook and changed a few words and ....wa-la ...there it is.

[TheSarge]

Hey how do I get recruited for these protests?  I need some extra money?




The above is proof positive that the Liberals and their lackeys are completely oblivious to exactly WHO is opposed to their attempt to hijack the healthcare system.

The have completely misjudged the American people yet again...and I quite honestly believe they have no idea how badly any kind of counter action against the protestors is going to be.

[thundley4]

Basically 0Bama's supporters are doing the exact thing that they are accusing the opposition of doing. 

[Tess Anderson]

Can somebody tell me why they're doing this in the first place? Obama has the votes in Congress to jam this socialism down the countrys' throat, why the hard sell? It's not as if bullying and intimidating people is going make them converts to the idea of socialized medicine. They must be really out of touch, after all, it's like Obama has declared war on America.

[Chris]

Pure propaganda.  If he can debase the opposing side with smears and lies in the process, he wins.

[TheSarge]

Can somebody tell me why they're doing this in the first place? Obama has the votes in Congress to jam this socialism down the countrys' throat, why the hard sell?

I think precisely the opposite is the case.  They are scared to death they don't have the votes because of all the Blue Dogs that are marching in lockstep on this.

[Tess Anderson]

I think precisely the opposite is the case.  They are scared to death they don't have the votes because of all the Blue Dogs that are marching in lockstep on this.

You mean you think the blue dogs have told him that he has to sell it to the voters, that there was no deal after all? They're scared to death to move at this point, if you're right Obamacare probably will die.

[Chris_]

They must have gotten the playbook from Her Royal Thighness herself because I am sure she remember's the protests formm the 60's 

[TheSarge]

You mean you think the blue dogs have told him that he has to sell it to the voters, that there was no deal after all? They're scared to death to move at this point, if you're right Obamacare probably will die.

Yes I think that's it.

My guess is that they've told the leadership they need some help...ANY kind of help to convince their folks back home that this bill isn't as bad as it really is.  Especially once it got out that the President hadn't ready it...but was demanding it be passed before the August recess.

Unfortunately the "help" the WH and Dem Leadership has given them has only made things worse.  Skullbusters from the Teamsters and a Snitch Line to the White House for reporting people who disagree with the Administration.

So now not only do the Blue Dogs have to explain this crappy bill to their voting public...they've got to do a tap dance about why the Administration is taking pages from Saddam Hussein's playbook.

[Chris_]

Maybe he is taking notes from his namesake?