Faced with a souring public mood on health care reform, Democrats and their supporters are launching a national grassroots push Wednesday to show lawmakers that the majority of Americans still support overhauling the system.How does one "launch" a "grassroots" effort? Isn't that a contradiction in terms?
Reform supporters are planning to hold more than 500 events between Wednesday and when lawmakers return to Washington Sept. 8, ranging from neighborhood organized phone banks to professionally staffed rallies with hundreds of people.
The Democratic National Committee and its grassroots arm, Organizing for America, are helping to organize the effort along with the Health Care for America Now, a group pushing to create government-run insurance plan.
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I simple "duh" (maybe even, "D'oh!") is adequately responsive to your rhetorical question.
ReplyDeleteOn another hand -- I know of quite a few folks who apparently, as kids, aspired to be covert operatives like The Man From U.N.C.L.E. or The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, and are now livng out their fantasies as "members" of Organizing for America. Code word: Shhhh, don't tell!!
With the $10 Billion the unions stand to get from Obamacare, they can afford to spread some around on Astroturf!
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They'll try to jigger the poll numbers, and the polls will probably go up. But I doubt that the Dems, who are facing an angry electorate, will feel any more confident about getting re-elected.
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