Posted on 08/04/2009 8:29:59 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
White House Isn't Concerned by Health-Care Protests
By HENRY J. PULIZZI
WASHINGTON -- The White House isn't concerned that increasingly vocal protests around the country are frustrating its push for health-care legislation.
Briefing reporters Tuesday, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs suggested that the opposition is being organized by a small group seeking to create "manufactured anger."
"I hope people will take a jaundiced eye to what is clearly the AstroTurf nature of so-called grass-roots lobbying," Mr. Gibbs said.
In recent days, administration officials and Democratic members of Congress have been shouted down by angry protesters at town halls in Pennsylvania and Texas, an uproar that could grow when lawmakers return to their districts for the August recess.
Mr. Gibbs compared the protesters with the "Brooks Brothers Brigade" that he said appeared in Florida after the 2000 presidential election.
"I seem to see some commonality in who pops up at some of these things," he said, without elaborating. "You can see quite a bit of similarity between who shows up where."
While protests intensify, the White House also has stepped up its response. It reacted early Tuesday to one online video featuring clips of President Barack Obama appearing to suggest that his health-care plans would eventually replace the private insurance sector, producing its own video shooting down the claim. In the White House's video, its main health-care spokesperson, Linda Douglass, accuses opponents of taking old footage and using it out of context as a scare tactic.
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The arrogance is amazing...I despise these people.
Good Lord! Are we living in the Fourth Reich?
Lies..he knows that conservative are not rentable. We don’t use RentAMob.
Gibbs needs to get out more.
Good Lawd! Whatever has gotten into those people? Do they not understand we are crafting the next equiture for this nation? Can’t something be done to send them away? We simply must do something about those elections.
“Let them each tofu!”
Well, he can always send Andrea Mitchell out to inform the folks that they’re just too stupid to know what’s good for them.
This is the good ol’ U.S.S.A.
Jane Fonda said the same thing over 35 years ago. We would all LOVE to live under Communism if we were only bright enough to understand what it really was.
Time is not on their side.
As the truth gets out, their agenda will collapse.
This is why they want to “push it.”
Unfreakingbelievable!!!
A small group?
next he will use Hillary’s line, a vast right wing conspiracy...
the arrogance of them with their power is mind boggling.
Of course they are not concerned...Their guys and gals in the Legislture are taking the heat...
I say pore it on to those folks while the iron is hot...
I predict this will be like their attempt to cram that amnesty bill down our throats a couple of years ago.
When the House (and Senate) reconvene after the August break, and try to vote on these bills, you will once again see the phone switchboards of the Congress MELT DOWN with furious citizens from all walks of life trying to put a stop to this TAKEOVER of the healthcare system in the USA.
I won't predict an outcome, but the Blue Dogs and even Dims in non-marginal districts better be thinking really hard about their future federal employment.
House members in the really hardcore moon-bat districts will probably be OK, though. Like Nancy. Like Rangel. Like Waxman. Unfortunately.
I wonder which part of Congress will have the ball$ to vote on this first, after the verbal lambasting the lot of them are going to get this summer?
Its a “Let them eat cake” attitude and history is loaded with examples of governments that took this attitude. They are in the dust bin of history.
Remember, Democrats always accuse the Republicans of what they themselves do!
It’s been in their playbook for a long time.
You would not have thought of it if it were not so.
Yes we can!
Yes we can!
Yes we can!
yeah, we are. he doesn’t care what we think,
Mr. President the peasants are revolting.
Yes they are.
No Mr. President the peasants ARE revolting.
Oh....
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