[lbo-talk] Is the right out organizing the left on healthcare?

Matthias Wasser matthias.wasser at gmail.com
Wed Aug 5 05:37:12 PDT 2009


Ezra Klein recently wrote that the single-payer folks already do dominate the town meeting circuit, or at least the Q&A section of it. The teabaggers are more street-based and, consequently or not (probably not,) get all the media coverage.

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Left-Wing Wacko <leftwingwacko at gmail.com>wrote:


> Is the right out organizing the left on healthcare reform? I am
> afraid so. There has been a little noise lately about how this "tea
> bagger" movement is putting on demonstrations to shout down any kind
> of health care reform discussion at "townhall meetings', even the
> corporate insurance sponsored kind most of us here don't want. The
> links at the end of this message are from the soft-left liberal blog
> Crooks and Liars. Within those blog posts are embedded videos of
> these tea-baggers in action, shouting down members of Congress.
>
> In one of the videos Rachel Maddow dismisses these protests as simply
> being orchestrated by right-wing think tanks and lobbying firms; aided
> and abetted by talk radio and Fox News. But it really doesn't matter,
> they are mobilizing people against health care reform. Some may say
> that that is just fine if they derail the Democrat's corporate welfare
> healthcare plan. Maybe it is to a certain extent. However, as far as
> the right-wing tea-bag protesters are concerned the details are
> inconsequential, they already think they are protesting against
> "socialized medicine" or the single-payer plan.
>
> Carrol Cox opined on some thread here on this list that single-payer
> won't be won until people are in the street demanding it. He's
> probably right. But shouldn't we also be at these "townhall meetings"
> exposing the bullshit of the dominant Democratic plan and demanding a
> single-payer plan be put back on the table? Are we really going to let
> these right-wing idiots who don't even know what the hell they are
> fighting against out organize us? It's pretty damn sad.
>
> I would like to here lbo-sters opinion on this.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sheldon
>
>
> http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/when-liberals-protest-its-facism-when-c
>
>
> http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/right-wing-attacks-august-town-halls-sa
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>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8UjY3YDlwA&eurl=http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/right-wing-attacks-august-town-halls-sa&feature=player_embedded
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