Posted on 10/12/2013 2:09:04 PM PDT by woofie
The 31-year-old Stanford business grad explains how he outmaneuvered GOP leaders and why he thinks House Republicans can defund ObamaCare.
'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.
"We rallied the conservative grass roots across the country," Mr. Needham says, and ran ads in more than 100 districts on the health law. It worked. During the August recess, these activists demanded that their members of Congress stop ObamaCare.
To most observers, who think the GOP is losing this fight, Mr. Needham's optimism that Republicans will carry the day may seem astonishing. But Mr. Needham says the second-guessers are wrong.
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Most observers ... The Ministry of Propaganda aka the Clown leg humpers.
Note article written by the traitor stephen moore.
At least Needham has a vision coupled with a spine and some cohones I will take that any day of the week
I think even if we lose we win ....in the sense that it is clear some in the Republican party will fight Obamacare all the way...and that maybe in to the next decade or more.
Republicans (not all but some ) are on record as opposing it. As soon as the people of the US realize Obamacare sucks they will know who to turn to.
Also for Obamacare to become accepted to the point where they can say “single Payer” it has to do s bang up job making people happy (and it cant)
Wowzers! We have bold, energetic, youthful new blood on the Conservative side!
bttt
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3078056/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3077897/posts
... aka Barry's buttboys.
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