The email was titled "5 facts about the anti-reform mobs."
1. These disruptions are being funded and organized by out-of-district special-interest groups and insurance companies who fear that health insurance reform could help Americans, but hurt their bottom line. A group run by the same folks who made the "Swiftboat" ads against John Kerry is compiling a list of congressional events in August to disrupt. An insurance company coalition has stationed employees in 30 states to track where local lawmakers hold town-hall meetings.
2. People are scared because they are being fed frightening lies. These crowds are being riled up by anti-reform lies being spread by industry front groups that invent smears to tarnish the President's plan and scare voters. But as the President has repeatedly said, health insurance reform will create more health care choices for the American people, not reduce them. If you like your insurance or your doctor, you can keep them, and there is no "government takeover" in any part of any plan supported by the President or Congress.
3. Their actions are getting more extreme. Texas protesters brought signs displaying a tombstone for Rep. Lloyd Doggett and using the "SS" symbol to compare President Obama's policies to Nazism. Maryland Rep. Frank Kratovil was hanged in effigy outside his district office. Rep. Tim Bishop of New York had to be escorted to his car by police after an angry few disrupted his town hall meeting -- and more examples like this come in every day. And they have gone beyond just trying to derail the President's health insurance reform plans, they are trying to "break" the President himself and ruin his Presidency.
4. Their goal is to disrupt and shut down legitimate conversation. Protesters have routinely shouted down representatives trying to engage in constructive dialogue with voters, and done everything they can to intimidate and silence regular people who just want more information. One attack group has even published a manual instructing protesters to "stand up and shout" and try to "rattle" lawmakers to prevent them from talking peacefully with their constituents.
5. Republican leadership is irresponsibly cheering on the thuggish crowds. Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner issued a statement applauding and promoting a video of the disruptions and looking forward to "a long, hot August for Democrats in Congress."
The first line in number 1 is defintely not a fact. So the e-mail starts out with a big lie.
It appears that most Amercians do not believe that Obama and the Democrats are trying create more health care choices for the American people, not reduce them. There is no question that Obama and many other liberal Democrats have stated that they want "a single payer system". All the lies being spread by the Democratic machine that Barry never said that or he was taken out of context are out right lies.
The Democrats need to learn that once and for all that repeating a lie over and over won't always snow a majority of voters. It has worked for them in the past but this time it will fail because too many Americans now know the true facts not the lies bandied about by an administration that tried to railroad this pig down our throat before the August recess. Why the rush if the plan is so good for the country? Do Democrats believe that most Americans are not smart enough to actually be told the truth?
If the Democratic party pushes this one down America's throat like they are starting to threaten I can guarantee you that the mid term elections of 2010 are going to be very bloody for anyone who votes for this and is in an at risk district.
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