Posted on 10/11/2007 4:18:59 PM PDT by khnyny
This may be interesting:
The Frosts joined the debate through family acquaintance Vinnie DeMarco, the president of the Maryland Citizens' Health Initiative. DeMarco introduced them to the pro-SCHIP organization Families USA, which put them in touch with Pelosi's office.
So who is Vinnie DeMarco? A busy lefty activist with more than the expansion of S-CHIP on his mind. He even has time to go after Wal-Mart, along with guns and higher taxes. He brags about changing the nation by beating on business here.
Around two years ago the Maryland Citizens’ Health Initiative (MCHI) stepped into the breach with the bold proposition that universal coverage could be achieved in Maryland. MCHI has been lucky to have as president of its board Peter Beilenson, Commissioner of Health for Baltimore City, one of the few prominent public health officials in the country to publically support comprehensive reform. And MCHI’s Executive Director, Vinnie DeMarco, is well known to many as a leading organizer of recent gun control and tobacco tax campaigns.
MCHI has some muscle. It has raised over a million dollars in foundation money. Its three full-time staff and many allies have now garnered the endorsement of over 1,400 organizations around the state, making those groups members of MCHI’s “Health Care For All” (HCFA) coalition.
Apparently Halsey Frost, father of Graeme Frost, sent an email to Time for their hit piece on conservatives. The man - maybe I should start using the term loosely - appears to have no shame. He either can't read, or has ignored many named individuals who have raised questions regarding why he doesn't mind pimping out his kid, and seems to not have felt compelled to pursue a path that would have supported his kids adequately, particularly as regards their health care.
(Excerpt) Read more at riehlworldview.com ...
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I love this quote from daddy Frost:
“shortsighted cut-and-paste bloggers, lacking all the facts, have made a feeble attempt at being crack reporters”
Oh, so he already KNOWS the guys from Media Matters.
I personally wish freepers would let this story die already.
Best description of Halsey Frost I have read.....
Why? The parents COULD have bought health insurance for their family BUT they CHOSE to have you and I and every other stranger pay for it!!! AND then he sends his 12 year old BRAIN DAMAGED SON out to rebut the President of the US!!!! My GOD woman, the man has NO shame and should be exposed for what he is. It has NOTHING to do with his children EXCEPT that he WOULDN’T BUY THEM HEALTH CARE!!
Because the “attacking a 12 year-old brain damaged boy” part of the story is what seems to stick in people’s heads. The left wants more material to use against us, and I say starve them.
Again Mr. Frost seems unable to understand his fellow countrymans anger at having to pay for programs for other peoples familys. And yet his child was never ever in danger of losing coverage even with the presidents veto!
That's your problem.
Each and every time the Democrats use a child as a human shield in their agenda to turn America into a Euro-style, secular-socialist welfare state they need to be beaten mercilessly. Screw this scumbag Frost.
Best regards!
LH
I don’t want to pay some stranger kid’s medical bills anymore than you do, but I think it looks like a witch hunt in the MSM now. I think we can fight the bill itself without getting so much bad press. Choose our battles wisely. Best regards to you too.
I’ve agreed with you from the start. This insane stategy is backfiring badly. We’re looking mighty rabid lately.
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So in your opinion when a leftist trots out some dubious source with a questionable sob story to attack republicans, that the republicans should just sit there and take it? "Bush is killing kids in America because of the war in Iraq".case closed argument over you cruel heartless conservatives.
Baloney. The only heads that part of the story is sticking in is the Bush Derangement Syndrome-addled heads of the left. And being quiet about the fraud being perpetrated by the parents as well as the 'Rat leadership who are pushing this pork-barrel health care plan will allow the fraud to succeed.
I don't know about you, but I resent the Hell out of the plan to make me pay for insurance for a bunch of middle class kids whose parents are too greedy and self-absorbed to take care of the needs of their own children. When my small employer's health plan was too expensive for me to buy a "family plan," I searched around and was able to buy two individual plans (in Maryland, BTW) from Blue Cross for my kids. The cost? Approximately $75.00 each, per month.
The parents can afford to buy a family SUV (or was it titled in the dad's business name?), and to put in a really nice kitchen in their gentrified Baltimore row house, not to mention mommie's penchant for body art. They need to get their priorities straight. They chose to have four kids. Those kids are dependent on their parents for their care. The parents want to foist the responsibility for their care on you, me and the rest of the taxpaying citizens of this country, so that they can continue to live the lifestyle they seem to believe they are entitled to.
The left will never like those of us who believe in God, country and personal responsibility. They will always condemn us and hate us, no matter what we do or don't do. The sooner we all recognize this fact, the better.
IMHO, you’re both wrong.
Perhaps Ann Coulter was correct in her assessment of the left trotting out supposedly “unassailable victims” to advance their leftist agenda. The left plays on emotion, fear and manipulation. I disagree that shining the spotlight of truth on what’s really transpiring is a bad thing. Truth is good.
I think it is high time that we faced down the dying, socialist "mainstream" newsrooms rather than run from them like scared bunnies. There is a battle raging for who controls the selection and dissemination of the daily news, and we (talk radio and the internet) are growing while the old media (big city newspapers and the network news organizations) are dying. When they are finally dead I will urinate on their graves.
In the meantime, I will not run from them. I despise Republican politicians who do.
FRegards,
LH
TM, if we did what you suggest, the Left would in an instant raise a battalion of "12 year-old brain damaged boys" to use against the Republicans and conservatives on every conceivable issue.
I've been around here long enough to know that you have to make it PAINFUL for them when they employ tactics like this.
Surprisingly, few people want to mess with rabid things.
I wonder why that is...
Nobody is attacking the 12 year old boy. They are attacking his 41 year old parents.
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