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Malkin Calls Right-Wing Tea Party Movement A ‘Counter-Insurgency’ This morning, right-wing ****ger Michelle Malkin joined the ABC roundtable on This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Asked what the conservative opposition strategy is going to be this coming month while Congress is in recess, Malkin said there is a growing “tea party movement — these counterinsurgencies amongst taxpayer rights groups” — that is fomenting opposition to Obama’s health care plan.
Malkin claimed the Obama administration has “vastly underestimated just how grassroots this movement is.” Lawmakers are going to face “townhalls-gone-wild,” she added. Watch it: The term “counter-insurgencies” does reveal the mentality of conservatives in opposition to Obama. Like Bill Kristol has said, the right wing is bluntly stating that it is going “for the kill.” Malkin has previously declare her hope that Obama fails.
As ThinkProgress has documented, these tea parties may indeed be “counter-insurgencies,” but they are hardly “grassroots” movements. Corporate lobbyists — led by Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks and Tim Phillips’ Americans for Prosperity organizations — have staffed and funded these gatherings. (They are doing so again.) The Fox News network, including Malkin’s frequent appearances, has taken the lead in publicizing and promoting the events among its right-wing base.
The tea-partiers have already proved that they can create a “townhalls-gone-wild” effect and are willing to demonstrate the violent qualities of an insurgency. Recently, Republican congressman Mike Castle (R-DE) faced down angry right activists who hijacked a townhall gathering by spouting crazy conspiracy theories. Right-wing protesters surrounded Rep. Tim Bishop (D) in New York and forced police officers to have to escort him to his car for safety. And anti-health care protesters hung an effigy of Rep. Frank Kratovil (D) in Maryland.
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i saw the discussion live, and heard Malkins use the term counter-insurgency.
i wondered what the heck she was talking about. i suppose she's trying to use a military buzz-word to sound ominous... instead she sounds crazy to me.
i think the GOP is marginalising itself into a fringe group.
the GOP has offered one solution to the health care cost problem.
they suggest opening the insurance to be sold cross state lines.
it sounds good, more competition right?
well what it would really do is force the Federal Govt to create a whole branch to regulate Insurance. unless of course you want to see people get screwed over every day by their out of state insurance co's
you would HAVE to leave your state to settle a dispute with them. this would lead to insurance co's all setting up shop in states that have the most "business protective laws" or business friendly whichever you like to call it.
if this sounds vaguely familiar? it should. it's how the banking business was allowed to proceed in the last fifteen years that led up to the collapse.
every state has an insurance commission that regulates insurance within their states.
it is very important, yet having insurance in another state would require you to deal with a state regulator that is not elected or appointed by someone that is elected by you...
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"President Obama may have to break his campaign pledge and raise taxes on middle-class Americans to pay for public health care and the growing deficit"
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"President Obama may have to break his campaign pledge and raise taxes on middle-class Americans to pay for public health care and the growing deficit"
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