Extreme White House Measures to Pass Obamacare:
Attempting to Enlist Federal Employees in Campaign to Overhaul Health Care
Attempting to Enlist Federal Employees in Campaign to Overhaul Health Care
Almost as soon as I, noting something that pundits, politicians and bloggers, had observed that the Democrats would attempt to pass Obamacare by any means necessary than a Democratic Congressman confirmed that that’s just what his fellow partisans were doing:
On the House floor a few moments after 5:00 p.m. Friday, Florida Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings, discussing Republican protests over the handling of the Democrat’s national health care bill, said that “Extreme times require extreme measures to ensure that we pass a health care bill that America deserves.“
Emphasis added. And one such measure is to use the resources of the federal government to lobby federal employees. The White House is using official government e-mail to get the message out:
The White House Office of Health Reform Director Nancy-Ann DeParle has been feverishly sending out unsolicited email messages to federal employees in an effort to build support for President Barack Obama’s health reform package over the last several weeks.
DeParle’s unsolicited emails have been regularly coming to some federal employees’ official government email inboxes for weeks without permission or request, causing some federal employees to feel threatened by the overt political language. . . .
The unsolicited emails also request that the federal employees take action in order to ensure that Obama’s health reform package is passed and the federal budget isn’t at risk for bankruptcy.
First, as CBS’s Richard Grennell put it, “Turning the President’s partisan agenda into White House directives to the federal workforce has crossed the line and should be stopped immediately.” Miss DeParle should be fired immediately.
Imagine the reaction if former President George W. Bush, as JammieWearingFool who alerted me to the story put it, inundated “federal employees with pitches to support the invasion of Iraq“.
Kudos to CBS News for covering this. This is a story that all even-handed media outlets should pick up as they would have had W done it, but according to Memeorandum, only CBS News has touched it.
Just one more example of the lengths to which Democrats will go to pass Obamacare.
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Umm… Isn’t the word that you are looking for, -Illegal-?
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — March 20, 2010 @ 1:03 pm - March 20, 2010
And coming from Democrat Alcee Hastings, who was impeached as a federal judge for accepting bribes, and subsequently elected by the morally bankrupt Democrat party, one can assume that’s pretty extreme indeed!
When CBS is the most honest of the network media this nation is in dire straights. Just one more example of the lengths to which the corrupt media will go to pass the Obama agenda!
Comment by American Elephant — March 20, 2010 @ 1:15 pm - March 20, 2010
Oh, that Alcee. Disgraced and impeached (which in Democratese means “Senior Statesman”), never ceases to amaze. From Daniel Foster at NRO:
Comment by ColoradoPatriot — March 20, 2010 @ 1:46 pm - March 20, 2010
I’m a former federal employee. I never saw anyone try to get away with this while I was there, not even when Clinton was President (although he did come close with paid days off for federal employees to do “volunteer” work). In my agency, employees regularly complained about perceived pressure from the Bush administration, even when it wasn’t there. If Bush had tried something like this, the screams from federal employees would have been deafening.
Comment by tgilfeth — March 20, 2010 @ 1:56 pm - March 20, 2010
“The health care America deserves”????? When did we ever, as a nation, do anything so reprehensible as to deserve this load of steaming garbage that the Dems are foisting on us? Could this be our punishment for all the “sins” that O keeps apologizing for?
Comment by Judith L — March 20, 2010 @ 4:12 pm - March 20, 2010
FINALLY some good news! Just when it appeared that Obama and his leftist minions were spending the day focused exclusively on the government takeover of our healthcare system, our multi-tasking President has somehow found the time to address national security as well!
Today, to mark the observance of Nowruz — a festival celebrating the arrival of spring, Obama sent a videotape to Iran pledging to pursue “aggressive sanctions” to prevent the country from getting a nuclear weapon, but assuring the mullahs that “our offer of comprehensive diplomatic contacts and dialogue stands.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62J09R20100320?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FworldNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+International%29
What a relief!
(Is it just me? Or has Obama been MORE accommodating with the Islamic Republic of Iran during the past year in negotiating nuclear issues than he has been with GOP lawmakers in negotiating healthcare reform?)
Comment by Sean A — March 20, 2010 @ 7:30 pm - March 20, 2010
There is no negotiation period. It’s the Oligarchy, the Corporate Communists dictating what will be. The “health care reform” that is really Insurance Regulation is exactly the same kind of hand-out to insurance as Bush did to Wall Street and the Banksters. Have any of you read what is in the bill?
Comment by ActiveCitizen54 — March 20, 2010 @ 8:40 pm - March 20, 2010
“using Federal employees in campaign” – heck, I see this every year in the budget debates in my home county of Loudoun VA. They don’t use the email system, but it’s all the same. The public input sessions feature a parade of government employees whining and pleading for pay increases and “full funding” for their favorite programs.
And no, Sean, it’s not just you. Obama has been more accommodating to the mad mullahs of Iran than to GOP lawmakers, to say nothing of democratic Israel.
Comment by Tom the Redhunter — March 20, 2010 @ 9:15 pm - March 20, 2010
Sean, “the system worked!“
Comment by ThatGayConservative — March 21, 2010 @ 5:07 am - March 21, 2010
#9: You’re right, TGC! It soooooooo WORKED!
Yesterday (March 20), Obama sent the videotape to Iran, wagging his finger at the mullahs and threatening to give them “what for” if they don’t cool it (“but, like, call me, k?”) Today (March 21), the UK Times is reporting that Iran has been hosting three-month training courses for hundreds of insurgents so that they can more effectively kill NATO forces in Afghanistan.
“The first month was devoted largely to teaching the Taliban how to attack convoys and how to escape before Nato forces could respond. During their second month they were shown how to plant IEDs in sequence so that the rescuers of soldiers wounded in one blast would be caught in further explosions. The third month was spent on storming bases and checkpoints. A hilltop fort was among the locations used for practice by a Taliban platoon.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article7069779.ece
See, the system WORKED because if Iran had a nuke by now, why would they be screwing around with IEDs and all that silly ground-war stuff? Clearly, Obama’s skilled negotiations with Iran have caused them to halt their nuclear program because Israel hasn’t been vaporized yet (duh!)
Comment by Sean A — March 21, 2010 @ 7:18 am - March 21, 2010
As riled up as I am over this health care fiasco, it pales in comparison to how furious I am over the bald lying, bribery, thug muscling, rape of the Constitution and worse that the Office of the President, the majority in the House of Representatives, the majority in the Senate and the legacy lamestream media have employed with no hint of a blush.
I am so disgusted with the base, junk yard dog tactics and bulldozing that I will only be further energized as the libs chuckle and whistle past the facts of what they have done to this once strong nation.
Comment by heliotrope — March 21, 2010 @ 10:40 am - March 21, 2010
heliotrope, if the tea parties are any indication, you’re not the only one.
Comment by B. Daniel Blatt — March 21, 2010 @ 1:58 pm - March 21, 2010