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First AstroTurf, now Placebos?

by @ 10:32 on October 6, 2009. Filed under Health Care Reform, Politics - National.

Throughout the August recess, town halls across the country, were attended by grass root Americans who told their Representatives that they wanted no part of Obamacare.  As the pressure on the Representatives increased, Nancy Pelosi and other Democrat leaders attempted to discredit the notion that this was real angst, from real Americans, that was being projected towards their Beltway Masters.  Rather, Ms. Pelosi asserted that the angst was all ginned up and that it was not real grass roots but rather AstroTurf.

I think they are astroturf, you be the judge.

Yesterday, President Obama staged another photo op in an attempt to convince folks that the country supports his takeover of health care.  President Obama had 150 doctors attend the photo op.  He tried to use these doctors as representatives of the entire medical industry.  Obama’s logic seems to be that if the doctors say the medicine to fix health care is good, than you should take it.  Except, there’s a bit of a problem with the foundation of his argument.

Turns out, most of the doctors at yesterday’s event (those who brought their white coats and those who had to have one assigned to them) were members of Doctors for America.  Turns out that Doctors for America is not a new group.  Nope, DFA is the new reincarnation of the former Doctors for Obama.

If Doctors for America, formerly Doctors for Obama, had previously drunk the kool-aid for hope and change, is there any credibility in their support for more ingestion of the sugary drink?

If Nancy Pelosi thought the Grass Roots attending the town hall were nothing more than AstroTurf, can I now assume that support from a medical group that had already drunk the kool-aid is not real medicine but just a placebo?

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