We need to make this health care debate about how the Insurance companies are behind the opposition. We need to make that the story because otherwise, our dummy reps will think all this sound and fury at their town halls or on the TV are authentic when the reality is that this is exactly like the teabagging...corporately organized and funded.
I just contacted my congresswoman, Maxine Waters, and let her office know that the people who are disrupting the town halls are not real Americans, but paid corporate goons who are receiving compensation to derail health care reform for real Americans.
We need to get the word out to all the media outlets to make the insurance companies the story! We need to shift the debate to the grounds that corporations are undermining Democracy by trading piddling amounts of cash to unemployed morons in exchange for those morons to interrupt, undermine and destroy the health care debate.
These insurance companies are paying people to make it look like the outrage is real...don't let our dummy reps in Washington fall for it. They've fallen for so much garbage already and inside their Beltway Bubble, they look at the TV and think that is what the true public sentiment is.
You have to just spend 5 minutes to call your reps and tell them not to believe what they're seeing on TV, these disruptions are fake, they are not real.
UPDATE
For those unconvinced, check this out:
August 3, 2009
Lobbyist Town Hall Disruptions Begin
-- by Dave Johnson
The Drudge Report is hiliting (promoting) astroturf disruptions of townhall meetings with members of Congress, without letting readers know this is organized by insurance company lobbyists.
Saturday I wrote about the corporate lobbyist astroturf groups that are organizing "Tea Party" groups to disrupt town hall meetings between members of Congress and constituents. Their goal is to make it appear that there is widespread disapproval of the health care reform efforts.
It is called "astroturf" because it is not really grassroots, which is regular people organizing to get something done. It is corporate lobbyists manufacturing the appearance that the public wants something.
The instructions that the lobbyists are giving the astroturf are clearly to violently disrupt the meetings. They include:
"Be Disruptive Early And Often: "You need to rock-the-boat early in the Rep’s presentation, Watch for an opportunity to yell out and challenge the Rep’s statements early."
– Try To "Rattle Him," Not Have An Intelligent Debate: "The goal is to rattle him, get him off his prepared script and agenda. If he says something outrageous, stand up and shout out and sit right back down. Look for these opportunities before he even takes questions."
These are quoted from the instructions given to the astroturf groups.
http://www.seeingtheforest.com/...
UPDATE 2
Follow the links, people! Look, if you would rather pick apart this than call your rep to tell them not to believe the claptrap they are seeing on TV or in the town halls themselves, then so be it. You're only making it harder for us to get health care reform passed!