In today’s Big Government post by Joel Pollak readers were treated to an amazing glimpse into the political strategy that has been put into place over the past year by the Obama Administration to force the radical overhaul of the American health care system all under the guise of “Health Care Reform”
If anyone doubts that the strategy blue print written by convicted felon Robert Creamer (while he was serving his time in Federal Prison) was really put into action by the administration, one only needs to look at the endorsements page and notice a rave from none other than David Axelrod:
Bob Creamer has devoted his life to progressive causes. Here he provides a fascinating narrative of how progressives have won in the past and provides a blueprint for future victories.
When David Axelrod reads and endorses Creamer’s book and describes it as a “blueprint for future victories” then it might be more than just a coincidence that what Creamer suggested/predicted is exactly what has come to pass.
As odd as it seems that President Obama’s top political advisor would see fit to publicly endorse a book by a newly released felon, it is still instructive to actually look at Mr. Creamer’s “blueprint for future victories” and see how Mr. Axelrod and the Democratic leadership has used that blueprint for President Obama’s Health Care scheme.
For today we will focus on two specific passages of his plan:
“We must create a national consensus that the health care system is in crisis.” and “To win we must not just generate understanding, but emotion–fear, revulsion, anger, disgust.” – Page 545
In much the same way that advocates of “Global Warming” continue to repeat that “The debate is over” those pushing the President’s Health Care Scheme continue to parrot that “We can all agree that our current system is in crisis…” Right? How often do we hear that? Meanwhile, polls show that 80% of Americans are HAPPY with their health insurance. But politicians who cite these numbers are painted with a broad dismissal and vilified for wanting to do nothing while Americans are dying because they have no health care.
The plan, from the beginning was to manufacture a crisis in health care. And, with the willing media on their side (“This will require an ongoing highly integrated earned-media messaging program that brings the growing crisis into relief over the next two years” – Page 545) that crisis becomes a stipulated FACT, not a political position, not an opinion, but a given. This book was written in 2007 and the plan calls for implementation over “the next two years”… do the math.
So, now the “Crisis” has been manufactured and a solution has been put forth. Now, how do our progressive leaders plan to win the votes of politicians and the support of the American people?
“We must focus especially on the mobilization of the labor movement…” and “Over the next two years, we must design and organize a massive national field program” – Page 546
To fully understand Mr. Creamer’s ability to mobilize the labor movement and how his suggestion was put into action this Summer, you need to know a little bit more about him and his involvement with organized labor.
Readers of Big Government are by now familiar with Health Care for America Now (HCAN). Mr. Creamer is alternately described on LEFT-leaning web sites as either a over-paid consultant for, or as a leader of HCAN. As we described in these pages last week, HCAN provided the plan for the August offensive against grass roots protestors who were rallying against the Obama Care legislation. That offensive led to violence and mayhem. Or, as Mr. Creamer benignly predicted: “the mobilization of the labor movement” and “a massive national field program”.
But understand the most important element of this “massive national field program”: The participants in this program are SEIU, ACORN, HCAN, AFLCIO, AARP, AFSCME etc. These organizations are not just advocating for this health care scheme because they care about fictional people who are “dying because they don’t have health care”. These organizations stand to benefit the most from the elimination of the health insurance industry.
This is about money and this is about power.
If the health insurance industry in America is forced to collapse (the way advocates of the President’s scheme have publicly said they hope will happen) then organized labor, specifically the SEIU, will be the largest beneficiary of such a collapse. And people like Creamer, who counts amongst his largest clients ALL of these organizations, will also benefit. (Here is a little secret of capitalism: If your clients get a huge windfall and it is directly attributed to your efforts, it will be very, very good for you.)
These two passages from Creamer’s battle plan to manufacture a crisis, foment outrage and revulsion at those opposed to the progressives’ solution to that crisis and then the mobilization of organized labor to bully those opposed to that solution are the essence of the political atmosphere we are living in at this very moment.
Just today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid compared those opposed to his “Solution” to the “Crisis” with those who were in favor of slavery. It is exactly as Creamer wanted it. You see: “People are dying because they have no health care… we have the solution so those people will live…. You are opposed to that solution… YOU ARE WORSE THAN A SLAVE OWNER!” No wonder people are willing to bite off the fingers of those standing in the way of this scheme.
The problem is: It is all a lie.
Even the examples that President Obama used in his address to a joint session of Congress to illustrate why this scheme is needed were exposed as lies.
And ask yourself (and your progressive friends) this question: If this is such a crisis, if people are dying because of our current “crisis”, why does this “solution” not even go into effect until 2013?
Hopefully, showing that ex-con Creamer’s fingerprints are all over the manipulated environment of crisis and outrage we are living in will help undermine this move toward a socialized, single-payer health system (that is what the President wants, that is what the progressives want, it is what Creamer’s wife wants).
But, if the media will not take notice of this, perhaps they will at least point the spotlight on the embarrassing fact that ex-con Creamer was at the President’s first State Dinner two weeks ago… and unlike war-hero Senator John McCain, Creamer was invited, he didn’t even need to “crash the gate”.
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