According to Politico.com, the White House has launched a counter attack on the people who oppose the total revolution in health care proposed by the President and the House of Representatives.
According to Politico:
"The new offensive started early Tuesday morning when the White House posted a video response to a hodgepodge of clips on the Drudge Report that portrayed President Obama as favoring the elimination of private insurance. On the White House blog, Obama's director of new media, Macon Phillips, asked supporters to send in leads for debunking chain e-mails or anything else that "seems fishy."
It continued through the day with press secretary Robert Gibbs and Democratic National Committee spokesman Brad Woodhouse both saying a series of confrontational town hall meetings were manufactured by Republicans, conservative groups and lobbyists who are paid to drum up opposition."
Why are they asking us to let them know who is organizing the opposition? Aren't people who object to legislation allowed to do it as a group? When lobbyists lobby for legislation, does the White House publish or use that information?
What the White House needs to understand is that those of us who oppose this healthcare plan are not necessarily in favor of the status quo. What we are in favor of is less government intervention in our health insurance. This is not about healthcare, it's about the health insurance industry. The government sees a successful industry and wants to take the money out of it and put it in the government's pocket. It's our job as citizens to stop them.
All of us need to pay attention to the way this administration treats the people who disagree with them. It is not befitting a democracy.
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