I'm not saying anyone out there in politics is clean in their campaign finances. Pelosi and Frank have heir hands in the cookie jar of the insurance money too.Originally Posted by BanginJimmy
The thing is, the unions and trail lawyers aren't backing 527's that are encouraging citizens to be rude/disruptive at their town halls. Some of these groups go as far as to distribute instructions for town hall participants to be rude and confrontational. These are the same "advocacy groups" that are just fronts for big pharma and big insurance.
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/9481224/...on-Memo-Sample
Conservative talking heads like Rush and Hannity are pretty much encouraging people to be disruptive.
Hannity: "Now, so far at these town hall meetings, you're doing terrific." [Fox News' The Shawn Hannity Show, 8/3/09]
"It doesn't matter to me one way or the other [if the protests are coordinated]. The people who are showing up are genuinely angry. And if their transportation is being facilitated -- about damn time. You've got to take these people on the way they play the game. The aggressor sets the rules in a conflict." [Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show, 8/3/09]
The goal of the conservative interests here is simply to block reform at all costs, not to offer any solution of their own. The longer the process is stalled, the more money the puppet-masters behind the drug and insurance companies can rake in. Rising costs be damned, the Republicans just want to sabatoge the whole works and maintain the status quo.