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Rep. Bachmann Calls Pelosi Plan ‘The Crown Jewel of Socialism’

http://www.breitbart.tv/rep-bachmann-ca ... socialism/

"We only have next week to stop it."

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom
come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day
our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who
trespass against us and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us
from evil. Amen.

It's time to kick the tires and light the fires big daddy

The big "Coming Out Party" for the Pelosi Nightmare ObamaCare legislation had ONLY pre-selected hand-picked fans allowed.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/200 ... op_stories

Democrats handpick reform bill audience

House Democrats blocked the public from attending the unveiling ceremony of their health care bill Thursday morning, allowing only pre-approved visitors whose names appeared on lists to enter the event at the West Front of the Capitol.

The audience at the crowded press conference included Hill staffers, union workers, health care providers and students, said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who thanked them for attending.

Mrs. Pelosi and other Democratic leaders announced the chamber's long-awaited version of a health care overhaul, which would expand insurance coverage to 36 million uninsured Americans, costing less than $900 billion over 10 years.

The West Front of the Capitol -- where President Obama was inaugurated -- is traditionally open to the public. But the entrances were blocked off Thursday morning by metal fences, with Capitol Police officers standing next to staff members holding clipboards with lists of approved attendees.

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"The steps of the Capitol are and should be open to the public," Minority Whip Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican, said on the House floor Thursday night. But House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, Maryland Democrat, denied the charge.

"I was there. I saw nobody turned away. I saw nobody precluded from attending," he told Mr. Cantor.

Videos posted on YouTube, including by Mr. Cantor's office, showed people being turned away by staffers or police. In the video from Mr. Cantor's office, a police officer tells a Republican staffer they are being denied access "per the speaker's staff."

• YouTube video: People being turned away from the health-care bill ceremony.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPMUJ6PPHJg

Reporters with press badges were able to get in but persons who didn't show official identification were turned away at the metal gates.

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Constitutionalists don't like the liberties stripped away from the bill. But the far left progressives don't like the way it gives a lot of gifts to the insurance industry. Insurers will be rolling in profits if young healthy adults, who are often the people who don't have health insurance because they aren't yet in permanent jobs and they figure any accidental injuries will be covered by other forms of insurance (auto accidents, or workers comp), are FORCED to take out insurance. From the leftist side of the political spectrum, the public option or a single payer plan were two things they wanted (Socialism in one big gulp) and they think anything less is just a sellout to Big Insurance. Cartoon from YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5zBEZVSkJM

in mid-September Steve Elmendorf, a lobbyist for UnitedHealth, sent out invitations to a fundraiser at his home for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. That same day, reports from CNN and the Associated Press suggested that Pelosi appeared to back off her nonnegotiable support for the public option.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091109/dreier

Health Care for America Now (HCAN), a coalition of unions, community organizations, consumer groups, environmentalists and netroots groups such as MoveOn, has been spearheading the reform campaign since the group was launched in July 2008.

In late August, seeing defeat on the horizon, HCAN and other reform activists regrouped. They decided to act more like a grassroots movement and less like an interest group. That meant mobilizing voters, focusing attention on the insurance industry, humanizing the battle by giving insurance company victims an opportunity to tell their stories and using creative tactics to generate media attention. In the past month the grassroots movement has focused on the insurance industry's outrageous profits, abuse of consumers and outsized political influence. And they've been warning Democrats not to get duped by the industry's pledges of cooperation.

The decision to target the insurance industry as the major culprit for the nation's healthcare crisis and as the major lobbying force trying to thwart reform was critical. Most Americans don't like their insurance companies. But the industry had been virtually invisible since Obama took office. For months the Obama administration and Senate Democrats coddled insurance industry giants, hoping to enlist their support for insurance reform.

Talk about "astro-turfing" -- the leftist MSM claimed TEA party types were traveling Potemkin Village People not reflective of true grassroots when they showed up at Town Halls, but look at what HCAN does to "pretend" its union backers aren't the REAL astroturf inflamers.