Posted on 08/06/2009 7:37:41 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Senate Democrats are girding themselves for a month of vigorous debate over healthcare reform, armed with a new set of talking points from David Axelrod, the president’s chief political strategist.
Axelrod and Jim Messina, the White House deputy chief of staff, met with the Senate Democratic caucus Thursday afternoon to strategize over how to talk about healthcare during the August break.
Axelrod told lawmakers to focus on reform of the health insurance industry when talking to constituents in their states, said Democrats who attended the meeting.
Axelrod also instructed senators to talk about Democratic healthcare reform plans in comparison to the status quo. During a press conference last month, President Barack Obama warned that without reform, Americans’ costs will double over the next 10 years.
After the meeting, Axelrod told reporters: "I think that the American people understand that the status quo works very well for insurance companies. It doesn’t always work well for them and I think that they’re going to be heard."
The White House officials also urged senators to stick to the game plan and not let themselves become distracted by criticism and town hall protests being organized by conservative and business groups.
“Much more specific advice was to stick with what we’re doing and don’t let them throw you off course,” Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) told reporters when asked about Axelrod’s message to the caucus.
Democratic lawmakers watched videos of protesters disrupting town-hall meetings and discussed how they should react in similar situations.
Democrats have already begun to focus their rhetoric on health insurance companies. A strategy memo obtained by The Hill last week shows that leaders have developed a strategy to attack insurance companies.
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So the plan is to demonize Big Insurance, huh? That will only work if they can prove that their plan will be better than what folks have now.
So they will engage in demagoguery and demonization of the private sector (i.e., insurance companies) in order to foist their stealth plan to socialize medicine. Unfortunately, such a “populist” appeal will probably be effective with many people of little brain, such as those who voted in the Messiah last November.
This is a test.
The Chairman of the Board of Commonwealth Edison WAS...
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William Ayers' daddy.
I wish - there was great stuff on that thread.
I have never in my entire life seen 3 more despicable men than Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod and Barack Hussein Obama.
Why did the other one get pulled? Here is a longer one and it was put on You Tube by some idiot that thinks the protestors should be pepper sprayed. Read the comments and FREEP this guys comments on this video. Look at his profile, he thinks Obama is the black FDR and is a progressive socialist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49XUPHp6P-k
You know the sick thing is, that Axelrod has a disabled daughter who probably would be denied significant medical care under national health.
No matter: he’s wealthy enough to pay for his own. Betcha he’s got an exemption in there for her.
Why was it deleted?
Premiums are the least of my problems with this bill, there’s much more in there like the item about the government getting access to our checking accounts because they want to make it mandatory they take the money each month to pay the premiums.. sorry, I do not want them having their paws on my checking account...
The other shorter thread had a comment that a big part of the issue at Tampa was the organizers brought in SEIU to fill the hall before it began and didn’t allow locals to get in to the townhall and have their say... in other words, it was a set up to try and make it look like Tampa supports the bill... all the did (stupidly if you support the democratic party) was further inflame the growing number of pissed off people.
Ironies of ironies...
Axelrod - the inventor and Senior Aide to the president on “astroturfing”, dares to criticize a genuine grass root movement, and Obama, chief community agitator complains about people being agitated at the Obamination he wants to enslave us with.
No kidding!
But if the Dems put a dollar amount per month on premiums, maybe the folks who think it will be FREE will wake up. That’s all I was trying to point out. It won’t be FREE and it will come out of your account, whether you need the $$’s for food or rent or other payment. I envision a lot of overdrawn accounts, much to the delight of banks..
astro turff anyone?
It’s back... I’ll try to get you a link.
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