Obama To His Mercenary Army: “Hit Back Twice As Hard”
Top White House aides gave Senate Democrats a recess battle plan on Thursday, arming the lawmakers with tips for avoiding disastrous town hall meetings while showing them polling on popular aspects of the reform effort.
Senior White House adviser David Axelrod and deputy chief of staff Jim Messina told senators to focus on the insured and how they would benefit from “consumer protections” in the overhaul, such as ending the practice of denying insurance based on preexisting conditions and ensuring the continuity of coverage between jobs.
They showed video clips of the confrontational town halls that have dominated the media coverage, and told senators to do more prep work than usual for their public meetings by making sure their own supporters turn out, senators and aides said.
And they screened TV ads and reviewed the various campaigns by critics of the Democratic plan.
“If you get hit, we will punch back twice as hard,” Messina said, according to an official who attended the meeting.
The hourlong session was the last opportunity for Democratic leaders and the White House to prepare senators for what will be a crucial month in shaping public opinion on health care. With no final legislation to promote, senators have expressed concern about dealing with questions and criticisms about the almost $1 trillion overhaul. The spate of confrontational town hall meetings have raised the stakes.
“They are just helping us understand the fringe that is trying to mess up our meetings,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).
Senators were urged to zero in on the insured, who need to be convinced that there is something in the bill for them. “The next five weeks is about closing the sale with the insured population,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said.
Axelrod and Messina also presented polling that showed the insurance reforms were popular with women and rural residents.
“There is unprecedented insurance reforms — things that have never been done,” said Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), a member of the Health, Energy, Labor and Pensions Committee, which approved its health care bill last month. “In our committee, we had to vote, and 10 Republicans voted against all those insurance reforms — every single one of them. Not many people know that but if I have anything to do with it, they will know it.”
The Senate Democratic caucus meeting followed a sitdown earlier Thursday at the White House between President Barack Obama and the six Finance Committee members who have been trying to negotiate a bipartisan bill.
The president urged the group to continue work on a compromise, but it also discussed the possibility of Democrats going it alone if the talks proved fruitless.
“If Republicans aren’t there, it could get to the point where sometime after the recess. … Democrats may have to go in a different direction,” Baucus said. “I hope not, but we have to face facts.”
But, he added, “I don’t think it will become a reality.”
The six senators met for about an hour with Obama and discussed policy issues including the expansion of Medicaid. For part of the meeting, they kicked their staff members out of the room, Baucus said. The group includes Baucus, Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) and Sen. Olympia Snow (R-Maine).
“He encouraged us to continue with the effort and we talked about what policies are better than some others, and how we should keep working through the August recess,” Baucus said. “We may reach a point though where have to take stock when we get back. At that point, if things are going great, fine. If not then we may have to go in some other direction.”
Snowe said they told Obama there would be no hiatus in their talks through the break, and they agreed to assess their progress in September.
“He is concerned about timelines throughout the fall,” Snowe said. “And he didn’t issue, frankly, any timelines, which I think we also appreciated. He understands there needs to be flexibility, but he obviously knows that time marches on. So he just wants to see what the standing will be at that point so he knows how to proceed himself in moving forward.”
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if you punch us, we will punch back 10x as hard. we will take this as far as we need to to ensure out liberty
remember ft. McHenry. those were good conservative patriots, not liberal wussbags. we are willing to go that far, not nearly as far as the liberals are.
Its people who scare easily who are for this reform.
People I have talked to know NOTHING about whats in this reform.
They just see whats on the news and believe them.
the liberals do not have the capacity to stomach what we are capable of…want to talk mercenary army, think again. the mercenary army that this usurper is calling upon is no where near as capable as the one that supports the pro constitution/capitalist movement! Those cowards have no clue what war is and what sacrifices have to be made in order to achieve goals and objectives.
-aTb
Damn Straight There aboutTObegin they have no idea what a mercenary army really is!!!
Instead of leading, the jackass in chief and his flying monkeys choose to continue to campaign, spin and strong arm if necessary. Punch back harder? What a complete ass this man has proven himself to be. His largess and narcissism is epic. This is what the country gets when they elect a man with little or no leadership experience to the highest office in the land.
So the great bi-partisan uniter is calling for EXCALATION, and agitation. And by using the word “punch” the US Federal Government is directly encouraging partisan violence.
BHO and the DNC Admin’s recent remarks labelling law-abiding citizens that differ in opinion negatively, and Hussein’s call to his ideological drones “This is the moment…” bears an eerie similarity to the the characterization and the messages that were blasted across Rwanda in the days and weeks prior to the Tutsi genocide where Tutsis were regularly referred to as “cockroaches”.
The invective was used by Rwandan political leaders to drum up hatred and to dehumanize victims prior to the wholesale slaughter of a million people.
The real USA has left the building.
http://blog.smu.edu/StudentAdventures/2009/07/examining_international_media.html
I talked to someone after Nov. 4 who “felt bad” about the tactics she was taught at Obutt camp. They were told to personally demean anyone against them at all. They were told to not discuss facts but, to go after someone on a personal level and to attack their character, they were told to call them a “racist”. This was part of the “get in their face” tactic. The heat on this crap is about to get turned up. He plays on the outside mr. above it all while his team is planning to use their thug tactics against you. It’s a mafia strong arm attack not a political war. You have to fight back with that in mind.
Yah, I pretty much figured Barry Hussein had his minions doing his dirty work while he plays Mr. Congeniality for the TV cameras. What sickens me is so many of the pro-govt thugs are getting their marching orders from INSIDE the white house itself.
I think Barry Hussein is very close to overreaching. If these fascist assholes think they can intimidate us then lets see how far they want to push it.
ovomit is fucking drunk with power,and the image he has of himself.
This never ends well for the tyrant.
ICE PICK TO THE HEAD AND WIGGLE, that will put a stop to the union goons A S A P
Go ahead and keep poking us in the chest you facist piece of crap you and your kind will get whats coming to them in the end and you will not like the final outcome…Obama Sebulius, Rahm, Pelosi and the rest keep it up bitch and you will be out of a job… frickin scumbags
Lock and Load
Make no mistake change is coming! We the people will retake our America! Obama and his idiot regime are already on the way out and just don’t know it yet! Call me an extremist and radical if you like and I will readily admit that I am guilty of both! Yes, I am extremely radical about preserving and protecting our Liberty and Freedom in this country at any cost! These idiot’s don’t have a clue to what push really means! I for one am prepared to die for what I believe in! Are You!
I’m not American, I’m in fact Austrian (don’t call me European, because that’s not what I am), but I think Patrick Henry had the proper reply for people of Obama’s “caliber”:
Give me liberty, or give me death.
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