Posted on 08/16/2009 12:38:41 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Dems abandoning leadership advice By Jared Allen Posted: 08/16/09 01:30 PM [ET] An August in which Democrats were supposed to return home to sell the merits of a universal healthcare plan has turned into one where members are publicly fending for themselves.
Some have even shunned the talking points and tactics their leaders encouraged them to use to gin up support for the Democratic healthcare bill as they’ve engaged with sometimes hostile constituents.
Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) recently lashed out at Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) recommended talking points aimed at the insurance industry, and criticized her approach in a letter to a local private insurance company, according to the Louisville Courier Journal.
“Regrettably, with passions inflamed throughout the country, Speaker Pelosi recently made inflammatory statements that assailed the character of health insurers across the board. I unequivocally reject those misguided comments,” Yarmouth wrote to the CEO of Louisville-based Humana, the paper reported this week.
Democrats unveiled a line of attack against the private insurance industry after the House failed to move a healthcare bill before August recess, an attack President Barack Obama has taken up in recent days. Pelosi called insurers the “villains” of the healthcare reform debate.
Even Democrats who are not part of the central leadership team were confident that attacking the insurance industry would play well, even in districts where members were due to face a backlash against “socialized medicine.”
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PEOPLE LISTEN......Most CONSERVATIVES WON”T RUN FOR OFFICE!
I know, so long as Hussein doesn't censor our free speech. I have a smile on my face every time I see the SRM outlets in trouble.
If this Bozo ever tried to censor the net——the outcry he saw at townshalls would look like a reverential church service by comparison.
My tagline says it all.
Cong Weiner is going to get Huma on his weiner
I don’t think that either family will mind if Huma and Congressman Weiner get married. Muslims are allowed to pretend to convert to another religion so long as it is part of a plan to destroy the Infidels, and Jews only insist that a goy wife convert to Judaism prior to the birth of the couple’s first baby (which in a case of “mutual beards” may never happen).
Yes, and the "mobs" they are talking about would be out with more than pitchforks and torches.
I've been wondering off and on what happened to Huma. I bet she dumped Hillary to go after Sarah!
Does anyone actually know? Wha' happened to Huma?
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