All last summer, after telling Americans that it was Congress's job to write the legislation (and after single payer advocates were shut out of public hearings and negotiations and were getting arrested, and after blocking a public option from being included in any legislation), Obama went AW0L from the public debate. He'd already made secret deals with the insurance and pharmaceutical industries undercutting the congressional committees working on healthcare legislation. When Tea Partiers took over town halls, brought gvns, threatened violence, and shouted down anyone who tried to have civil discourse, Obama disappeared and members of Congress cancelled their Town Halls -- Do you really not recall this?
I guess you don't remember the top-down strategy (a strategy made possible in part by the Blue Dog "victory" of delaying floor votes on legislation until September 2009, and which was organized by Obama's 'partners') to conduct potentially violent disruptions of Town Hall meetings scheduled by members of Congress with their constituents in their districts. The very people who Obama was crafting a secret deal with were behind the disruptions taking place at lawmakers' town halls around the country ( "Town Halls' chaos the result of stealth efforts by health insurance companies").
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