SEIU chief Andy Stern says he visits the White House weekly: “We get heard.” (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)
Obama's HHS Secretary Sebelius to SEIU: "Keep Doing What You're Doing"
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius held a brief conference call with SEIU members this afternoon.
She hailed them as her “brothers and sisters” and urged them to show up at town hall meetings.
She gave the same stultifying mini-lecture about the sanctity of Medicare. “Change is not easy,” she droned. “We need to roll up our sleeves.”
No mention of how SEIU thugs rolled up their sleeves and attacked a black conservative protester in St. Louis or ran interference in Tampa Bay.
In an attempt to reassure SEIU members that senior citizens would not suffer under Obamacare, Sebelius said “Saving lives saves dollars.” Which might come as news to Zeke Emanuel.
Sebelius thanked an SEIU member who showed up at the Tampa Bay melee and urged more to get involved. “Keep doing what you’re doing.” SEIU heavy Dennis Rivera then took over, taking calls from scripted SEIU members who read statements (one of which was painfully, barely coherent).
Rivera closed by railing against the “radical fringe” of “right-wingers” and urged his “Purple Army” to fight “terrorist tactics.”
“Keep doing what you’re doing.”
This is coming dangerously close to instigating violence!
Okeedokee.