Obama-Pelosi-Reid-Waxman Cabal? ... (Michael Steele's Phrase)

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I'll take our "cabal" over their "axis" ...

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1. The GOP MO is to...

...depict elected officials as usurpers and tyrants, and stop just short of advocating violence -- except in cases like that of Catherine Crabill, that looney tune in Virginia, who sounds genuinely bloodthirsty.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2009/07/delegate_candidate_fight_dems.html

Appearing at a "Tea Party" rally on Wednesday to protest President Obama's expansion of government, Catherine Crabill, a political neophyte running for the House of Delegates in the Northern Neck, quoted from a March 1775 speech by Patrick Henry and then went further, calling on Americans to resist the course Obama has set for the country.

"We have a chance to fight this battle at the ballot box before we have to resort to the bullet box," Crabill said. "But that's the beauty of our Second Amendment right. I am glad for all of us who enjoy the use of firearms for hunting. But make no mistake. That was not the intent of the Founding Fathers. Our Second Amendment right was to guard against tyranny."

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"Those are my convictions," Crabill, 52, said in a telephone interview. "I am a full-blooded, freedom-loving American, and what we're seeing in Washington is domestic terrorism at its worst." But as the video of her remarks zipped around the Internet, she said worried she would be caricatured. And she said she wanted to make clear that she was not advocating armed resistance.

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2. It's not stopping short when you have McCain and Palin

allowing supporters to yell, "Kill him!"

They crossed the line last November and now many of the loons on the right are marching over that crossed line.

Meanwhile, someone posted earlier today here on DU that the Secret Service is cutting back on the protection of President Obama.

More hate, more violence, less protection?

Why does this sound like a perfect storm brewing?

I don't like it.

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4. I'll guess that the poster referred to the Kessler book.

Ronald Kessler has a book out on Secret Service protection.

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/07/21/new-book-says-secret-service-cut-corners-on-obamas-protection/28

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5. Yes, I remember the phrase "cutting corners" in the post

nt

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3. Michael Steele's Transparent Ploys to Kill Health Care Reform

Michael Steele's Transparent Ploys to Kill Health Care Reform

Sahil KapurWriter
July 22, 2009

After months of floundering as RNC chair, Michael Steele has found his calling card: kill President Obama's health care plan. That should help restore his credibility with the Republican party. To do this, Steele knows he can't afford to engage the issue honestly. And while he has a legendary arsenal of tried-and-tested weapons to gun down health reform, he seems clueless on how to use them tactfully. His recent media appearances attest to this.

According to Steele, it simply doesn't matter what's actually in the Democratic reform bill, because "you can read and know where this thing's going," he said Tuesday on CNN. Steele is worried that Democrats are intent on monopolizing health care, and his concerns subsist "whether or not it's in the legislation."

Without pointing to a shred of evidence, Steele declares that the Democratic plan will cause people to lose their health care. When CNN anchor Kyra Phillips clarified that under the proposal, "people will have a choice -- they won't be told to go one way or another," Steele retorted: "I don't know that. I haven't seen the final bill. And you don't either."

Also telling was his declaration this week that the moral question of tens of millions uninsured is not a concern for politicians, but for pastors. He dismissed the idea that Republicans should propose counter-legislation to prove they take this issue seriously. Most striking was when he said: "I don't do policy. I'm not a legislator. My point in coming here today was to begin to set a tone and a theme, if you will..."

The approach that Steele and his Republican colleagues have adopted is to relentlessly enunciate a few key buzzwords and hope the effort falls through the cracks -- use idioms like "government takeover," "socialism," "rationing," and "Europe," to try and scare people. It sounds comical, but only until you realize it has worked like a charm in the past.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sahil-kapur/michael-steeles-transpare_b_242985.html

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6. Grassley, Steele, DeMint cabal

Grassley, Steele, DeMint, We obfuscate not legislate on healthcare.

July 22, 2:35 PM
by Tim McCown

Is it Demint or is it Dim Wit on health care. Jim Demint says we've got to stop the President on health care. Here I thought we legislated or at least made it look like we legislated for the good of the country and the will of the people. Too bad Michael Steele is too stupidly ideological to realize the only case he is making is that the Republicans aren't concerned with the health care needs of regular people. They only seem to care about politics. We keep being fed creeping Socialism and Government health care so we will be afraid of changing the failed system we have.

Lets face it Republicans, in the face of astronomical costs for many of us Middle Class Americans the prospect of becoming really sick with no health care is far scarier than a public option plan.

In a post by Alien Abduction on Daily Kos, he noted that you won't hear the following words in Canada:

out of network, co-pay, monthly premium/deductible, waiting for approval,COBRA, health insurance lobby, bureaucracy, pre-existing condition, individual risk, uninsurable, profit.

For all those who love to ask, do you want government controlling health care? If it was really all that bad why would they need to spend 1.4 million daily to defeat it? They are really afraid if exposed to a real public option you won't want the expensive poor quality crap they create. Private insurance is bent on doing to health care what Wall Street has done to your retirement.

http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m7d22-Grassley-Steele-DeMint-We-obfuscate-not-legislate-on-healthcare