Monday, May 21, 2012

Liberals Preparing Obamacare Agitprop

Even as Democrat Members of Congress don’t want to talk about Obamacare, outside liberal groups are discussing how to support the law through an “agitational tone.”  Late last week, the website Buzzfeed obtained a document, drafted by Health Care for America Now, outlining potential strategies for responding to a Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare.  The memo includes possible venues for rapid-response events following the ruling – a Planned Parenthood clinic is one suggested location – and notes that “the final messaging will be either celebratory or agitational in tone depending upon the result, but we will need to have both versions prepared to go.”  (And no, I’m not making this up – you CAN’T make this up.)  The memo goes on to discuss events “like a ‘honk and wave’ or a Burma shave,”* and notes that “waiting longer to orchestrate events diminishes the urgency of our message.”  Remember, these liberal groups “orchestrat[ing] events” with an “agitational tone” in support of Obamacare are the same ones who three years ago decried the protests against Obamacare as being fake, orchestrated, and mean-spirited.

Nevertheless, in a spirit of bipartisan comity, we’ve put together some additional suggestions on groups and speakers that the professional left could ask to speak in support of Obamacare:

  • Individuals who can’t wait to be compelled to buy a product for the first time in our nation’s history; these folks will be easy to find, as Obamacare’s individual mandate is overwhelmingly popular with the American public (just like the entire law).  Also a great visual: The government bureaucrats who will be determining what insurance all Americans will be forced to buy.
  • All the Americans who have been able to keep their health insurance, just like candidate Obama promised.  Because it’s not like the Administration has needed to give out waivers to union members or senior citizens while attempting to hide a broken promise, stifle dislocation, and quash political dissent as the President runs for re-election.
  • Members of the public whose faith in government was restored by the transparent process leading up to Obamacare, with all the negotiations on C-SPAN and none of the secret “rock-solid deals” and backroom shenanigans that candidate Obama said he wanted to rid from American politics once and for all.
  • Last but certainly not least, the best endorsers of Obamacare will be the tens of millions of Americans who saw their premiums being cut by $2,500 per family, just like candidate Obama promised.

Oh, wait…

 

* This latter allusion, from a 1940s facial care product, was likely inserted in the memo to highlight President Obama’s appeal to younger voters.