Andy Stern: Obama's Thug Czar
Via Gateway Pundit:
Barack Obama’s good friend Andy Stern, the SEIU president, warned democrats today that they must pass Obamacare or risk losing their super majorities in Congress
Remember this is the same thug leader who coined the phrase “persuasion of power” to describe what happens to those who dare mess with the SEIU’s strong-arm tactics.
I agree with Mr. Stern on this though — if health care reform doesn’t pass, the Dems will lose their lose their super majority in 2010.
But I’ll go a step further, if they do pass health care reform — they’ll do so against the wish of a the majority of Americans, and they’ll not only lose their “super majority”, but they’ll lose their majority all together.
Stephen Green and I are on the same page:
I think he meant to say the Democrats would lose 40+ seats if they pass anything close to what’s being considered. Otherwise, they should hold their losses to 15-25 seats. Which is to be expected given the number of freshmen in conservative districts, the disadvantage presidential incumbency bestows upon his Congress, and the general mood of the public given an over-reaching and corrupt People’s House.
Singing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” is not a plan to control Congress. This is how it’s done, plebes:
Yahoo: 300k is chicken feed. Won’t help them stay in office.
Look again. As Paul Krugman says today, this whole debate is a proxy for how Washington really works, and Obama’s falling right into the trap set for him by the monied interests who control it all. Survey after survey shows the public overwhelmingly in favor of a public option that competes with private insurance:
Yet the impression is given that the public option is a hard-left position that should be compromised for the sake of the bill. But Obama and the freshmen Dems who swept the election last year all had single-payer in their campaign platform, so the public option IS the compromise, and those who elected the Dems into power last year are not going to let the President and progressive Dems off the hook just because they’re afraid the big donors will take their money and run to the Republicans. This is how the bank and Wall Street bailouts went down. Does anyone think progressives put the Dems in power for this? Democratic voters will no longer stand for elected officials too afraid to accomplish anything for fear of being defeated by Republicans.
No one in either party ever dares to challenge the Goldman Sachs or BlueCrosses of this country, the blue chip companies frame almost every debate in Washington. Obama’s proven by his appointment of Rahm Emanuel that he’s willing to abandon principles for the sake of power alone, so it is now up to those members of Congress who made similar promoises to hold firm and resist the temptaion to cave into the big money’s wishes. With the kind of public support behind REAL healthcare reform right now, the grass roots can absolutely defeat the Big Pharma and its clients. If we pass a public option then they can give their Monopoly money to the GOP till the cows come home and it won’t matter because the public will be soldily behind the new reforms.
That Survey USA poll is not an outlier, look here and here.
Andy Stern is a Communist. See the proof here: http://www.commieblaster.com/acorn/index.html