Greg Sargent - Tea Party Conference Call - "No Reform At All Is The Goal"

[TomCADem]

Here is an interesting story from Greg Sargent on a conference call between Tea Party and conservative organizers:

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/president-obama/on-private-conference-call-tea-party-organizers-say-no-reform-at-all-is-goal/

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/seius-notes-on-a-tea-party-strategy-conference-call/

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On a private conference call, a group of top Tea Party and conservative organizers offered a surprisingly frank description of their goal, according to a source on the call: Completely blocking any kind of bipartisan compromise, and completely preventing any type of health care reform bill at all from ever becoming law.

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The call consisted of representatives of top conservative groups, such as the American Liberty Alliance, the “Tea Party Patriots,” and RecessRally.com, the AFL-CIO’s notes say.

The moderator on the call, whose name could not immediately be determined, told listeners that bipartisan compromise on the Senate Finance Committee, where senators are holding talks, must be stopped at all costs, AFL-CIO’s notes say. The moderator called on members to pressure GOP Senators seeking compromise with Dems, like Chuck Grassley, Mike Enzi, and Olympia Snowe, to stop the negotiating.

“The goal is not compromise, and ANY bill coming out this year would be a failure for us,” the moderator said, according to AFL-CIO’s notes. The moderator added that “the Democrats will turn even a weak bill from the Senate Finance Committee into Canadian-style single-payer through underhanded implementation.”

Another organizer on the call, according to AFL-CIO, added: “The purpose of Tea Parties is not to find a solution to the health care crisis — it is to stop what is not the solution: Obamacare.”

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[SeattleGirl]

1. Hey, I have an idea!

Make better access to healthcare available to those of us who want it.

As for the teabaggers, let them fend for themselves.

Bet they'll be changing their minds real fast.

[progressivebydesign]

2. "stopped at all costs" WTF is wrong with these people?

they are leading the unstable paranoids into violence. I fucking hate those people... This is that asshole Newt Gingrich and pals bringing back the "moral majority", when in fact it's the asshole minority instead. Just what we need.. more angry old white men trashing the country.

[Phx_Dem]

3. I think alot of progressives are on that same page.

If they can't have single-payer, they don't anything at all.

[TomCADem]

4. If Corporations Can Astroturf Conservatives Against Reform, Why Not Liberals As Well?

If these so called progressives had their way, we would not have even had Medicare, because it fell short of universal care. Yet, decades later, these same progressives point to this incomplete program as a model of success. What happened to the all or nothing they like allude to?

If we do not engage, and actively work to reform healthcare, it is difficult to see how we will get another chance in the decades to come. The Tea Party astroturf types know this, as the conference call makes clear. No reform is their goal. Sadly, many progressives share this same goal, which suggests that they are taking their orders or inspiration from the same source.

[HopeOverFear]

5. Wow

[Critters2]

6. Remind me again...who won the last election? nt