{"id":1065,"date":"2009-08-05T17:31:37","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T17:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2009-08-05T17:31:37","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T17:31:37","slug":"be_ready_to_defend_your_right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1065","title":{"rendered":"Be Ready To Defend Your Right To Speak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0809\/25808.html\">Politico.com<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>According to Politico:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>&#8220;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&#8217;s director of new media, Macon Phillips, asked supporters to send in leads for debunking chain e-mails or anything else that &#8220;seems fishy.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>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.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Why are they asking us to let them know who is organizing the opposition?&nbsp; Aren&#8217;t people who object to legislation allowed to do it as a group?&nbsp; When lobbyists lobby for legislation, does the White House publish or use that information?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">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.&nbsp; What we are in favor of is less&nbsp;government intervention in our health insurance.&nbsp; This is not about healthcare, it&#8217;s about the health insurance industry.&nbsp; The government sees a successful industry and wants to take the money out of it and put it in the government&#8217;s pocket.&nbsp; It&#8217;s our job as citizens to stop them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">All of us need to pay attention to the way this administration treats the people who disagree with them.&nbsp; It is not befitting a democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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: &#8220;The new offensive started early Tuesday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1065\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}