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Michael Needham: The Strategist Behind the Shutdown
WSJ ^ | October 12, 2013 | STEPHEN MOORE

Posted on 10/12/2013 8:57:12 AM PDT by yoe

'I really believe we are in a great position right now," says Michael Needham, the 31-year-old president of Heritage Action, the lobbying arm of the nation's largest conservative think tank. By "we" he means the Republican Party and the conservative movement; their "great position" refers to the potential to win the political battle over the government shutdown.

Though Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is the public face of the high-risk strategy to "defund" ObamaCare, the masterminds behind it are a new generation of young conservatives, chief among them Mr. Needham. From a tactical view, the strategy has been deployed with precision. In August, only Mr. Cruz and a band of renegade tea-party Republicans in the House favored this approach, and the media collectively scoffed. But by September, House Republicans couldn't pass a budget without attaching the defunding rider that has grounded much of government.

[snip]Mr. Needham says. It is "totally unfair to say, 'We're going to give a delay of the employer mandate, but we will not give that same delay to the individual mandate, and we're going to exempt members of Congress.' A united conservative party making the case, day in and day out, about the fundamental unfairness of the way the president is implementing this law.....

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It is truly outrageous that our elected have bought this Pig-in-a-Poke, Obamacare to replace a free market medical industry, envied and copied around the globe. Obamacare is Socialized Medicine which gives government the power to "lift you up or put you down"....and some races in this country want reparations for perceived injury due to ancestral slavery...but they are willing to be enslaved by Socialized Medicine?

Don't even speculate about fixing this abomination....it isn't even close to fixable.

1 posted on 10/12/2013 8:57:12 AM PDT by yoe
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To: yoe

Only “hundreds” have been able to sign up for a health care plan at the Obamacare websites. The Wall Street Journal reported:

Okay now we will try the landline # 1-800-318-2596 listed above or 1-800-318-2596 = 1-800-FAU-CKYO.


2 posted on 10/12/2013 9:03:20 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Boycott Reno & Las Vegas until those in control there, remove Reid from the senate!)
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To: yoe

We have reached the point where our PINO/Dictator/Emperor is showing everyone that he does not care at all what you or I think - Destruction of America is the #1 goal. Making us all squirm and whine in the process is just icing on the cake for Soetoro and his handlers. They fully believe that we won’t do anything to stop them from their Coup d’Etat.


3 posted on 10/12/2013 9:03:58 AM PDT by Sioux-san
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To: Grampa Dave

4 posted on 10/12/2013 9:07:48 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Is John's moustache long enough YET?)
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To: yoe

As socialized medicine goes, Obamacare sucks at that too.


5 posted on 10/12/2013 9:20:09 AM PDT by pallis
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To: yoe

If this law stands we are nothing more then slaves, the tax increase in this bill will break everyone once they cross the poor threshold.


6 posted on 10/12/2013 9:22:43 AM PDT by stockpirate (Build a gallows outside the US Capital and they will come..or we need to drag them to it..)
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To: yoe

Re: “The Strategist Behind the Shutdown”

We have a “Strategist?”

Two weeks in, and this is the FIRST TIME I have ever heard of this guy.

Re: “A united conservative party making the case, day in and day out.”

Now that’s a great strategy!

Uh, when does it start?


7 posted on 10/12/2013 12:40:00 PM PDT by zeestephen
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