Posted on 01/17/2014 2:01:41 PM PST by Zakeet
For some time, the right-wing has been trying to paint mainstream Republicans as amenable to keeping Obamacare. No, really. They suggest the John Boehners and Mitch McConnells of the political world would be content to keep the health-care law, maybe just fiddle around the edges. (One of those accused of such treachery, Doug Holtz-Eakin of the American Action Forum, says that is hogwash: Nobody has written, researched, testified, or whined more about . . . ObamaCare than me.) The far right accused opponents of the shutdown as, in effect, voting for Obamacare. This is all poppycock, but its worth asking what the hard-liners are up to.
As a starting point, every GOP congressman and senator has voted multiple times to get rid of Obamacare, defund it, eliminate the individual mandate as a way of gutting it, stall it or offer outs from the mandate to, again, undermine the exchanges. Its a ruse, a sneaky way of accommodating Obamacare, I guess. Moreover, if you look at all the Republican proposals for replacing Obamacare, they focus on creating patient-centered health care, eliminating the individual mandate and removing a minimum definition of insurance. This is true of everyone from Yuval Levin of the Ethics and Public Policy Center to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) to Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.). There is no Obamacare lite anywhere to be seen. These and other conservatives (including every single House member in two budget votes) want to limit increases in Medicaid, block grant it and let the states experiment with various cost-effective methods for providing health care to the poor.
In other words, the right-wing echo chamber is making this up.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I see what you did there.
I like it.
The Den of Vipers:
Republicans for Immigration Reform
website: http://republicansforimmigrationreform.org/
Board of Directors
US Rep. Carlos Gutierrez (D-IL), Chairman
House Gang of Eight
The Honorable Spencer Abraham
Gov. Luis Furtuno, Puerto Rico
also board member of American Action Network
Mr. Fred Malek, Chairman, Thayer Lodging Group
Founder of American Action Network, Chairman of American Action Forum
Mr. Charlie Spies, Clark Hill PLC
Advisory Board
US Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL)
The Honorable Steve Preston
The Honorable Margaret Spellings
Mr. Edwin Wang, Accretive Capital
Partnership for a New American Economy
website: http://www.renewoureconomy.org/
Co-Chairs:
Bill Marriott, CEO & Chairman Marriott
Bob Iger, CEO & President Disney
Jim McNerney, CEO & Chairman Boeing
Julian Castro, Mayor San Antonio, Texas
Michael Bloomberg, Mayor New York, New York
Michael Nutter, Mayor Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Rupert Murdoch, CEO & Chairman Newscorp
Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft
The web of RINOs and Rats goes deeper....
Ever hear of FWD.US?
FWD.US was created by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. He has joined with "key leaders in the tech community to promote policies to keep the United States and its citizens competitive in a global economyincluding comprehensive immigration reform and education reform." (http://www.fwd.us/about_us)
Their list of supporters is a who's who of tech companies. (http://www.fwd.us/our_supporters)
Their team in Washington DC:
FWD.US has two subsidiary organizations, Americans for a Conservative Direction, and Council for American Job Growth. (http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/policysocial-context/22211-has-zuckerberg-gone-conservative.html)
Americans for a Conservative Direction board members are:
In May FWD.us began running ads the immigration bill pushed by the so-called Senate Gang of 8. Politico reports that Americans for a Conservative Direction will spend over $1 million to push the ad in states including Texas, Florida, Iowa, and Kentucky. (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/07/Republican-group-Facebook-immigration-bill)
Another group running ads is the American Action Network. The American Action Network was founded by Fred Malek, National Finance Committee co-chair of John McCains 2008 presidential campaign. AAN created the American Action Forum and the Hispanic Leadership Network. These groups share office space with the Karl Rove affiliated Crossroads GPS/American Crossroads.
These groups have overlapping leadership and membership.
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Former Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL) |
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Congressman Raúl Labrador (R-ID) |
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Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) |
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Congressman Francisco Canseco (R-TX) |
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House Gang of Eight
John Carter (R-TX)
Diaz-Balart (R-FL)
Sam Johnson (R-TX)
Raul Labrador (R-ID)
Xavier Becerra (D-CA)
Luis Gutierrez (D-IL)
Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)
John Yarmuth (D-KY)
Texas Rep Francisco Canseco has a hidden relation to the House Gang of Eight, membership in the Hispanic Leadership Network.
The Hispanic Leadership Network developed the "Earned legal status", and "undocumented immigrant" talking points.
http://hispanicleadershipnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/HLN-Dos-and-Donts-of-Immigration-Reform-Mes-saging.pdf
http://hispanicleadershipnetwork.org/?page_id=15
http://americanactionnetwork.org/about
http://americanactionforum.org
Sponsors of lobbying push are:
Beware the government spies that will be infiltrated everywhere.
rlmore1 wrote:
“I see what you did there.
I like it.”
The historical record tells us, that ‘that’ particular action, was not the first one to come to mind. The first one involved a, ahem, rope.
(thanks for the vote of confidence, I’ll try not to waste that.)
:)
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