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Thank you, Sarah Palin. Thank you, all of the people who descended en masse on the exasperated Democrats (and Republicans) during August's Town Hall meetings. Oh, but it's good to hear even Huffpo's Michael Brenner bashing Obama...

Let's face the harsh reality -- Obama has blown health care reform, big time. The opportunity of a lifetime has been squandered. The most recent revelations about backroom deals with Pharma and the other vendors of medical services drops the curtain on any hope of serious change in our costly and inefficient non-system. This is a painful admission to make. Not only does the country remain handicapped by grossly sub-par arrangements for health delivery, we also are burdened with a president who has been discredited as a progressive dedicated to a betterment of how we conduct public business. [emphasis mine -ed.]

Thank you, Saul Alinsky, for showing us the way. Finally, we are fighting fire with fire...

Obama foes turn to ’60s radical for tactical tips

Opponents of Barack Obama’s healthcare proposals are using the tactics of Saul Alinksy, the legendary leftwing activist who helped inspire the US president when he was a young community organiser, says Dick Armey, head of Freedom Works, a group fighting against universal healthcare.
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“What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander,” said Mr Armey

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“What I think of Alinsky is that he was very good at what he did but what he did was not good,” Mr Armey said. “We don’t organise people to turn up at these town-hall meetings – we don’t provide buses to get them there. But we tell them about the meetings and we suggest good questions they could ask.”

Next up on the Obama push to salvage his sinking fortunes, specifically this asploding Health Care socialization-program he so desperately desires? How about a little 'Crisis Management', Rahm - O! style! Dick Armey predicts...

“In September or October there will be a hyped up outbreak of the swine flu which they’ll say is as bad as the bubonic plague to scare the bed-wetters to vote for healthcare reform,” said Mr Armey. “That is the only way they can push something on to the American people that the American people don’t want.”

Rahm Emanuel is a lefty fanatic, as is Howard Dean. From American Thinker, an exposé of Rahm the fanatic, and of ObamaCare...

The looming ObamaCare fiasco is a classic example of a public policy plan that has never been weighed against the alternatives. Even liberal economists are saying it. Any consistent reader of the Wall Street Journal knows more about healthcare options than the Obama administration's "experts" do. That's why ObamaCare fails so badly against choices that are more practical, far less expensive, and much more humane and respectful to all concerned. O-Care is simply not a result of a balanced, fair-minded assessment of human needs and costs.

On the contrary. It is a plan so single-minded, so monomaniacal, so disruptive, grandiose and blind to the alternatives that it is even now crashing in the minds of a shell-shocked public.

And Howard Dean, that Liberal's Progressive's Ghod? YEEEEEEEEEEARRRRGHHHHH! Get your whine on...

Dean argued that a public option is fair and said there must be such a choice in any genuine shake up of the existing system.

"You can't really do health reform without it," he said.

So, now, what's next for health reform? Let's take advantage of this setback, and introduce some real reform.

Republicans need to introduce serious Health care reform, starting with a Texas model Tort Reform option. That's an option what would be music to my ears.

h/t Darleen Click @ PW

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