Now we know where Senator Bayh stands: Bayh “Said There Will Be A Public Option In The Final Bill.”
November 24, 2009
October 28, 2009
October 4, 2009
President Quietly Pushing Public Option
October 1, 2009
September 29, 2009
September 9, 2009
Congress Rejects For Itself What Obama Wants For Us
From the Wall Street Journal, Obama to Endorse Public Plan in Speech
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, in a high-stakes speech Wednesday to Congress and the nation, will press for a government-run insurance option in a proposed overhaul of the U.S. health-care system that has divided lawmakers and voters for months. (more…)
September 1, 2009
Changing Health Care Reform Strategies
The President is going to get specific on health care reform. From the Atlantic, Something New On Health Care: Deal-Breakers From The President
…He plans to list specific goals that any health insurance reform plan that arrives at his desk must achieve, according to Democratic strategists familiar with the plan. Some of these “goals” have already been agreed to, including new anti-discrimination restrictions on insurance companies. Others will be new, including the level of subsidies he expects to give the uninsured so they can buy into the system. (more…)
August 19, 2009
White House Tactics to Counter Health Care Reform Opponents
From the American Thinker, The Array of WH ObamaCare Tactics Grows
1. Warn about the cost of inaction
2. Use Grandma to build empathy through association.
3. Accuse opponents of racial prejudice – play the race card.
4. Shift the focus of the debate.
5. When accused of having a controversial proposal, just say “No we don’t.”
6. Hide the plan.
7. Hide key congressional proponents.
8. Pretend to give up on controversial issues that were never acknowledged in the first place.
9. Hold pro-Obamacare pep rallies that profess to be open town hall-like events.
10. Blame the media for focusing on the opponents.
11. Demonize the opposition.
12. Make false claims for Obamacare.
More at the link.
Related: from Breitbart, Obama to rally grass roots backers on health care
President Barack Obama will Thursday hold a live online and telephone strategy meeting to rally devoted grass roots backers as a backlash over his health reform plan spreads to liberal media commentators.
David Plouffe, who ran Obama’s triumphant 2008 election campaign, and now steers the Organizing for America supporter network, said Obama wanted to lay out his strategy and message, as controversy stalks his major reform plan.
More at the link.