Posted on 08/04/2009 3:05:42 PM PDT by La Lydia
Greg Sargent asked the question of the moment: “Is Obama’s vaunted political operation getting outworked by tea-baggers?" The evidence that the correct answer is yes has been mounting of late, as Democratic Congressmen have been increasingly heckled and jeered at town hall meetings back home...This is not how the Democrats want to spend the August recess. The question is, were they really expecting something different?...So far, writes Marc Ambinder at the Atlantic, the response from the White House and Democrats has been to “ridicule the opposition...
“Patronizing opponents is a tried and true tradition in Washington, and Democrats have used the tactic with success,” writes Ambinder, but there’s a bigger issue here. The more troublesome question for Democratic strategists is why the major Democratic groups, including Organizing for America, the labor unions, Health Care for America Now, seem to be flatfooted and unable to match the much smaller conservative organizing capacity in these critical districts...
One answer is that the media pays attention to the loudest voices, which are coming from the right. The other is that organizing around major — even popular — reforms of existing institutions is tough. The Democrats don’t have a single bill right now, and the elite left is worried about what’s not in the cards — a public plan...
Where exactly is Organizing for America in all of this? Greg Sargent reminds us that “OFA has been regularly announcing new initiatives throwing its weight into the push for reform. It recently announced events in all 50 states and has regularly been calling for shows of spontaneous pushback against G.O.P. obstructionism.” ...In other words, OFA is supposed to be doing exactly what the right is now doing: Staging very visible displays of passionate support for their side’s goal — i.e., health care reform...
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com ...
What strategy? No one is contacting me. I downloaded the bill, started reading it and I find I don’t like it. Period. Why can’t someone have an opinion independent of the Spin Doctors on either side?
No. We are all being paid by the evil insurance companies — and I can’t remember who else, but some other interest group — to protest the health care bill. In their little world, the fact that we would independently be able to figure out that this legislation would be a catastrophe for our lives, our families and our country, and protest it in our own interest, is inconceivable.
“Is Obama’s vaunted political operation getting outworked by tea-baggers?”
If the ‘Bama has an achilles heel, it’s truth.
This is what happens when evil is allowed to grow unchecked.
So that we and the world never forget:
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You see libertards have no comprehension in these matters - they can’t fathom that individual Americans will take the initiative to get out and protest these issues because thats not how it works on the left. In there mind if they have to bus in and pay protesters, then surely that is whats happening in this situation.
What they should be concerned in is that Conservatives are notorious for not protesting, ususally because they are at work, so if Conservatives are worked up in such a lather it really is serious.
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