Scripted Outrage Still Headlining At Tea Baggers & Townhalls

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During a townhall meeting hosted by Sen. Arlen Spector, a local woman and closet community organizer with ties to Glenn Becks 9/12 Project, asked Spector what he "planned on doing to return the country back to the way our founding fathers intended it to be according to the constitution.

Her name was Katy Abram and as a last little dig, she told Spector that George Washington would be rolling over in his grave if he could see what's happening to the country. Now there was a good question! - What has happened to the country in the short 6 months that Barack Obama has been in office?

Where were these people during the 8 years that the previous Bush administration was "systematically dismantling." the country, which is a quote that Abram used in reference to President Obama's agenda.

There is a common theme in the rhetoric among some of the most outspoken healthcare protesters that defies coincidence. Not only do the questions sound similar, but in several instances they are asked in the same chronological order. In the video clip above, you can see that thier questions are being rescited from a script in the protesters hand.

If that's the case, these people aren't protesters or even activist for that matter, they're messengers. In the case of Katy Abram, it's been pretty well confirmed that Glenn Beck is her scriptwriter.

Is Obama so powerful that over the course of 7 months, he has managed to push the country to the brink of socialism? - Has Obama managed to initiate his radical agenda to the point where people have honestly been able to rationalize carrying a fully loaded pistol or a revolver, or even an AK-47 maching gum to a townhall meeting? - Has President Obama really managed to pull-off so many changes in such a short time?

They parrot the words of Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, Savage, Palin, etal. - Words like Socialism, Communism, Marxism, Hitler, Nazi, Facism, Eugenics. Yet townhall video clip after video clip, you see these protesters being interviewed and more often then not, they are completely unable to articulate the sign in they're own hand."

"Sir, why do you think President Obama is a Marxist?"

"Because he is."

"What specifically has he done that you consider Marxism?"

"Everything!"

"Well...can you give me some examples?"

"You know? - Big bail outs, He tookover the auto industry, Now he's trying to takeover healthcare."

"Well, what about the $700 billion stimulus package that President Bush signed?"

"That's what saved us. Now Obama is ruining all of the good stuff that President Bush did for this country and that kept us safe from another terrorist attack. Obama wants to close Gitmo and bring all of the terrorist here to the USA and then let them go right in our own backyards."

"So now that the Big-3 auto makers have been taken over by the Government, doesn't that mean that all of the auto workers are federal employees? - If so, shouldn't they be allowed to sign up for Government run healthcare like every other federal employee?"

"I guess we're going to have to let them! - And we'll have to do the same thing if he takesover healthcare too."

While our founding fathers where fairly successful in their forward looking approach to drafting the U.S. Constitution, they could never have imagined 2009 in their wildest dreams. Hell, they couldn't have imagined 1909 for that matter.

The Founders' vision was of a republic of self-reliant farmers and small-town tradesmen. The last thing they wanted was for New York to become the London of the New World—a mammon-worshiping metropolis in which financial capital and political capital were rolled into one.

That was why there was such resistance to creating a central bank, and why—despite two attempts—we have no Bank of the United States to match the Bank of England. That was why populists railed against the adoption of the gold standard after the crash of 1873. That was why there was so much suspicion when the Federal Reserve System was created in 1913. That was why government regulation of Wall Street was so strict from the Depression until the 1970s.

I haven't seen Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, or Sean Hannity showing up to fight the good fight with all of those that they've rallied to go and speakout on their behalf. I mean when you earn between $15 and $20 million dollars a year, is there really any kind of recession or depression that could effect you in the way that it would a person that earns an average income of $50,000 to $60,000 per year? - or even two or three time more then that?

There are only two possibilities. Either the multi-millionairs Beck, Hannity, and Limbaugh are such rightous humanitarians that they have dedicated their lives to defending the average American. from circumstances that simply wouldn't effect them.

- OR -

Beck & Friends have simply managed to reach that unsophisticated segment of society whom are easily drawn to snake oil salesmen like a moth to a flame. Is it any coincidence that so many of these "protestors" are still describing a public option as a takeover of the medical insurance industry.

I spoke with one Tea Bagger today who believes that President Obama and the United States Government have already seized control of the American Auto Industry and since all of the workers are now federal employees, we'll have to provide then with gov't run healthcare. He said that we'll have to do that same thing if Obama is successful in taking Government control of the Medical Insurance Indusrty as well.

Healthcare Without A Public Option Is Not Reform

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If President Obama thinks for one second that the public option is an option, then he has greatly underestimated the core of the party that handed him the 2008 election. Healthcare reform with a mandate, but without a public option would force Americans to purchase medical insurance from the vary companies that have been fleecing America for decades.

I would hope that every democrat out there would send a clear message to the democratic majority, that any democrat who votes for a bill with out a public option is a democrats who is serving his or her last term in office. I would sooner take George W. Bush and Dick Cheney by the hand and march them right back into the White House before I would ever accept healthcare reform without
a public option.

If a public option is not viable at this time then this administration needs to come to terms with the fact that once again, the right has successfully killed health care reform. It is really that simple and should this be the case, the blame lay squarely at the feet of President Obama. For all of his oratorical ability, this President remained silent while the very industry we where fighting filled town hall meetings with staged outrage.

President Obama needs to understand that he has been handed the key to the city and to stop acting like he’s just passing through.

Nat'l Guard and Reserves Now Have $180 Per Month Gov't Healthcare

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So, Federal employees including members of congress are covered by a government sponsered heath care option, senior citizens are covered under MediCare, the poorest of the poor have basic health care options under MediCade, active members of the military have government run health care, retired members of the military have The Veterns Administration, and now members of the National Guard have a government option under (TRS) TRICARE Reserve Select which provides a health plan option to members of the Reserve and their families when they are not on active-duty status.

The health plan option delivers coverage similar to TRICARE Standard and Extra to eligible members and features continuously open enrollment.

The Army Reserve’s top general calls it a "steal." The National Guard’s Enlisted Association says "where can you get health care for your entire family for just ($180) a month?" An Ohio National Guard private calls it "untouchable." Another Soldier said it’s "one of the many often unmentioned benefits of Guard service." So it’s no surprise that increasing numbers of Guardmembers are purchasing TRS, especially in these tough economic times.

With President Obama and the democrats on the hill trying to provide for a public option for the segment of Americans left out of the health care picture, it is amazing how the medical insurance industry has managed to enlist hard working, middle class republicans into taking action against health care reform by painting it out to be a death blow to democracy and freedom.

They have funneled obscene amounts of money into "grassroots" organizations by playing upon the undisputed sense of patriotism that is at the core of the republican party. At the same time, they have encited and called to arms a racist segment of the far right based soley on the the Presidents mixed race.

Many of these townhall protestors are among the uninsured because their employers don't provide health care or because like many, they simply can't afford the monthly premiums imposed by the private medical insurance industry that operates unopposed by competition.

I doubt that any of these protestors would consider the elderly, the military, and memebrs of the National Guard and Army Reserve to be unpatriotic or socialist for taking advantage of affordable health care options for themselves and their families.

When townhall protestor Katy Abram appeared on MSNBC and described her famalies "health care savings account" which has a $5000.00 deductable, I was shocked that she somehow felt that that was something worthy of praise. Then she went on to say that "over the course of a year, we'll pay for all of our medical needs, doctor visits out-of pocket.

Abram has been led to beleive that a public option will take away her choice to maintain that $5000 dollar anual health care plan and I can assure her that it will not. Whomever is collecting over five thousand of the Abram famalies hard earned dollars each year before they even have to out one thin dime, will be more then happy to keep that arrangement going.

However, should the Abram family at some point see the benefit of taking advantage of a public option at $180 or $200 per month, or even $250 per month, that is still only $3000 per year and far below the $5000 dollar deductable that the Abram family has to meet before the insurance company starts paying out benefits.

Even if they can take that $5000 as a tax deduction, it's still real money that has to be paid out of pocket with each and every doctor visit until they have forked over five grand.

Now at this stage of the game, nobody knows what the average cost of a government sponsered public option will cost on a montly basis, but that fact of the matter is that if turns out to be more costly then private insurance, then the plan will die on the vine and that will be that last that anyone ever hears about a public health care option in this country.

What most of these public option protesters fail to realize is that they are unwhitting agents of the medical insurance industries plan to make sure that we've already heard the last about a public option before one can even be rolled out. But if the government cal roll out a very well recieved health care option at $180 per months for Reservist and their famalies, they can do somthing similar for the segment of America that drives our economy.

This isn't about socialism, or the systematic dismantling of our country. Those are just talking points written down on 3x5 cards by people who have been duped into believing that they are part of some patriotic call to duty against the liberal loonatics running amuck in Washington.

Government control has traided hands back and forth between political parties in this country for more than 250 years and we're still standing. And we'll continue doing just that because at the end of the day, we are all Americans, and we all love our country. However, we have arrived at a frightening crossroads where some people love the country so much that they have become willing to take it down rather then to surrender control. Some are either unable or unwilling to accept the fact that an overwhelming majority of Americans have chosen a Democrat to take control and lead the nation in a new direction.

A direction different from that in which we've been headed over the passed 8 years. I don't drink Kool-Aid, nor do I march in lock-step with the democratic party. Barack Obama is not the be-all, end -all that many of my liberal friends have painted him out to be. In fact, since January, he has systematically been downgraded, in my opinion from A+, to A around March, to B- around May, to C over the passed month and he's about to get a C- if he continues to prise republicans who go out the very next day and spread the same false information that has so many Americans mis-informed.

In the unlikely event that President Obama should happen to Google this blog post among the millions out there in the abyss of the world wide web, I would say this: ENOUGH! - I don't want to hear anymore Republican praise until an honest attempt to participate in government is shown. I don't care if some Republican pulled a dozen kids from a burning school bus! - Zip It! - Push the agenda G-Dubya style if need be. Hell....have some lawyers at the DOJ write legal opinions that mandate a public option if you have to. Just git er done!