So earlier today there was a story saying Rahm Emanuel was telling liberal groups to stop running Ads against blue dogs. So now, straight out of the whitehouse these groups whose pressure actually worked to get some on board are telling us to stop?
Really?
Right after the Whitehouse made a sweetheart deal with Billy Tauzin of PHARMA and who knows who else?? Tim Noah, a reform supporter at Slate.com who has been largely supportive writes: Obama's Biggest Health Reform Blunder: How Big Pharma's Billy Tauzin conned the White House out of $76 billion.
And now we hear from Greg Sargeant it was more forceful than that: Rahm Slammed Dems Attacking Other Dems As “F–king Stupid,” Sources Say
F*ck you Rahm, whose side is the whitehouse on?
Sources at the meeting tell me that Emanuel really teed off on the Dem-versus-Dem attacks, calling them “f–king stupid.” This was a direct attack on some of the attendees in the room, who are running ads against Dems right now.
Tellingly, Rahm raised the specter of a loss on health care, sources at the meeting say — which suggests that the White House may be less certain about victory than officials allow publicly.
“He started out with, `We’re 13 and 0 going into health care,’” one source at the meeting said, meaning that Rahm was touting the White House’s string of pre-health care legislative victories.
“This momentum is necessary to do all these other things. We have a lot of momentum right now, and any loss spoils that momentum that we’ve built up,” was how the source described the gist of what Rahm said. A Rahm spokesperson didn’t return an email for comment.
Said one attendee: “It was the Rahm show.”
We're getting death threats down here and the White house is cutting more and more and more compromises with drug lobbyists, health insurers, and blue dogs and Republicans like Grassley and Enzi who wont even be there for the final bill??????????????