Gibbs Calls Protesters' Bluff in Health Care Debate
Jenny Hughes
New York Times
August 8, 2009
Facing increasing protests over President Obama's proposed medical reform effort, the Administration has moved into a counterattack. Over the last several weeks, arguments against the health care bill have moved from emails and phone calls into fights at town hall meetings. Crowds of Republicans have been videotaped shouting at elected officials and shouting anti-Obama slogans.
Some of this outrage has caused many within the President's own Democratic Party to waver. So-called 'Blue Dog' conservative Democrats have stated that they will not vote for the budgetary increases required in the bill. Many Republicans have also lined up to oppose the President's initiative, making it less likely for the reform act to pass in August.
The President has reportedly organized what White House Press Secretary dubbed "a counterattack." President Obama has repeatedly urged followers to spread positive word about his plan. He has also asked for supporters to email any "fishy" rumors to the White House.
Press Secretary Gibbs has even challenged opponents openly during yesterday's press briefing.
"What the President does not like to see is people who helped wreck the health care system in the first place lecturing us and telling the American people that they cannot have the low-cost, quality health care that they deserve. President Obama beleives that it is unfair to say to a woman like Edith Haroldson of Hannibal, Missouri, that her son cannot access health insurance because he lost his job."
As the meeting went on, Gibbs continued with the the health reform topic. During one portion he cautioned opponents that their actions were "hurting the interests of the country." He also told CNN host Fredricka Whitfield that some of the protests appeared to "dislike our President more than they love our country."
The White House is expected to continue President Obama's push for legislation. Despite the August recess, Obama is hoping that a deal can be struck by both Congressional Houses by the end of the month.
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8 comments:
I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you’re not patriotic!! We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration! -- Hillary Clinton --
^^ Anon:
You hate our country and hope that sick people die!
Go fuck yourself!
Tom G... you cant handle the truth so you attack with vicious lies and smear. Typical leftist!
“To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker”……Frederick Douglass
Tom you tend to your family and I will tend to mine. Nuff said.
Where does it say anywhere that Obama is calling anyone 'unpatriotic'? This seems like just another attempt to spread lies and rumors.
Maybe if you learned grammar we wouldn't have a problem, RepubTard.
Tom G. - typical leftist thug who cannot have reasoned discourse, so he spews vile, contemptible slurs.
How on earth can we believe that the same government that mismanaged and bankrupted Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Amtrak, and the Fannie&Freddie housing debacle could ever handle the complexities of the nation's medical system?
Socialist healthcare doesn't work. The looters and the uneducated continue to demand that their every whim be granted...at the expense of someone else who actually worked for it.
Socialist healthcare is nothing but the shackles of political slavery to the leftists' perverted desire to be the royal rulers of we, the penny-stinking plebians.
Notice also, how there was no violence at these town hall meetings until the leftwing union thugs answered the Dear Leader's call to action? Projection is a symptom of mental illness, of which progressive/leftist ideology clearly is.
PEANUT BUTTER FILLED PRETZELS ARE AWESOME!
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