great article today in the New York Times about who launched this campaign
to defund
Obamacare's a call well turns out
it's not of course something that just sprung up naturally organically
your watching the news it seems like well I don't know Ted Cruz got really
excited
and he decided to do that filibuster which by the way is not a filibuster
%uh and then the house republicans a water that when each wall look which is
kinda popped up
no there was a meeting among very conservative groups
right after President Obama's last three elections this is funny because of
course President Obama Joe Biden said
that after his reelection the fever would break in the republics would be
more likely to work with a
I he it appears of course the exact
opposite is what happened well it turns out that in that meeting led by former
attorney general edwin meese
the put the other document that quote
who was a blueprint to defunding
Obamacare and so they do that a.m. mediately
after Obama's reelection are well
why do they do that well the New York Times explains
it'll all took full effect as planned many conservatives feared
it would be nearly impossible to repeal
even if a Republican president were elected in 2016
so think about that the guys to say all the american people or whether also they
know why go: Obamacare et cetera sir
no no they got together they said my god we gotta stop it before it goes into
effect if it goes into effect everybody will realize how much they like it
it will never be able to repeal it no matter how many elections we win
they won't let us repeal just like Social Security and Medicare because
american people love those programs
by overwhelming majorities and then that takes money
from a little bit from the super super super rich
gives it 10 regular average americans
and by the way it doesn't even do that in the case a social security
it just allows you to contribute to social security so that you get the
money back
basically these rich guys erskine together literally you know in a room
together and saying
yeah they they did all put into that kick fun but would be great if we could
take some about money
so here they have another program
that they'd love to raid prevent stop under all circumstances
god forbid we should do anything positive for the american people so
Michael a Needham our heritage action for America
so an offshoot of the heritage foundation says we felt very strongly
the so this year the house the you to use the power of the purse
at least at heritage action we felt very strongly from the start that this was a
fight
that we were gonna pick so all the way back then
they decided we're gonna pick this fight and when a picket base
on these continuing resolutions basically threaten to shut down the
government if we don't get our way even though we've lost on this issue already
legislatively
so they explain the defunding tall kid
was created in early September that year including talking points
for the question what happens when you shut down the government in your blame
for
so in other words taken playing this all along
and soul of a good planning to get there here where they go
all college she look at what happened outta nowhere
wanna tell you who's behind this in a second but from the picture you see here
you might be able to tell who's behind it already
ride all golfers is the Koch brothers but I mean explain you how it's the Koch
brothers
okay now a Speier Koch brothers they have a group called Americans for
Prosperity
a and they've got a hundred for 100 as hyperbole but literally dozens of groups
which co-funded it's funny that it takes sometimes the different strategies have
a
to get to their goal temple to the president for Americans for Prosperity
and he's got a different plan he wants to do
spend and he is spending millions tens of millions of dollars according to him
on a multi front effort that includes working to prevent States from expanding
the medicaid under the law so
they've got a hundred different ways they're attacking the law
defunding the government is just one of those weeks to phillips et
hilariously says that its David versus Goliath
you understand that David being these
multi-billion airs and Goliath what being the american people
no no I don't know if you got the memo your goal I it
where basically just trying to say hey can we get health care to
most people in america so they don't die in the streets goal I if we're gonna lie
if
that's hilarious so who was in that room when they were making these plants
Tea Party Patriots Americans for Prosperity there you go FreedomWorks
Club for Growth
generation opportunity that's hilarious group meant to reach
younger voters they've reached approximately three people who all work
a generation opportunity
same goes for young Americans for liberty who basically young Americans
for
people looking to get rich off the Koch brothers and then there's of course
heritage action which I mention
now other offshoots love these groups though are
affiliated with this movement Senate to protect patient rights that's a
group that got over a hundred million dollars its and they
now are working out all these different issues that have nothing to do with
I'm this law Affordable Care Act little on protecting patient rights
they have no interest in that %uh American commitment is another group 60
plus Association
S tronic tallow AARP pretending that they're in favor senior citizens as they
try to cut there's
Social Security and Medicare and it is an interesting one and the traditional
values coalition
because the Christian thing to do would be to make sure the people do not get
health care
and I according are great so
at Salon a different group but it turns out that when you trace all back
that it comes most the money comes largely
from the freedom partners Chamber of Commerce
they took 200 million dollars
in 2012 and distributed to all these different groups
so that they could defeat Obamacare
and by the way other things that President Obama
proposes whether it's for example cleaning up the environment
who Koch Industries is heavily in the energy industry
they have no interest in cleaning up the environment i cost the money
all the unions and the minimum wage they despise those things
so you fund against that as well me at what people we serve a smoke-filled
rooms in conspiracies ice
50 that's ridiculous a lot of things work
and there's a lot of truth in that usually
histories sees out in the open our system is now
so ridiculous that we've legalized bribery just
given partition money for his campaign you do independent expenditure in the
neighborhood the way you want right it's out in the open
but sometimes it turns out there smoke-filled rooms where the Koch
brothers have decided how they're gonna spend their two hundred million dollars
it's not just the Koch brothers to be fair there's also
business league that's part of this but as more the 200 members
all of whom pay at least one hundred thousand dollars in dues
now the all those incredibly rich businesses and and and
individuals I mean you gotta pay at least a hundred thousand oops
you think they're looking out for the regular folks
who looked are looking to get health insurance and you covered or they're
looking out for the incredibly rich
who want to make more money off us from
I can't quite tell and then these guys have not only attacked
President Obama and the Democrats have also now attacked
republicans effect is a 100 districts
that their now running some critical Internet advertisements
against Republican lawmakers and then a
the group that I referred to earlier generation opportunity
um is a guy named Evan Feinberg this running it so former Capitol Hill
8 any says about their efforts because what they're doing is they're getting
young people to go burn their Obamacare Carter some is said to be like that
as if there's like a really popular movement in college campuses like
like there was during vietnam it you know why there was anyone go to vietnam
does like
in this case they be a popular movement to dock I don't want assurances sure
cheap available is your
up to cart no such movement is funded by the Koch brothers
who are you know in the ballpark of seventy years old
you think that care about kids on college campuses they're looking out for
them
know they hire these like you like Evan fiber could then say
lot of folks have asked us are we trying to sabotage the law
how our goal is to educate empower young people
I that's a good one event
and as they're doing all this
it's not just the money they spend on ads not just all these
different groups that their funding its also
this incredible funding movement
to create a false grassroots or at the very
you know if your gonna be as generous as possible them to help the grassroots
grow so like if you're a progressive in for example you want to say hold the
bankers accountable
well and over ninety percent of Americans agree with you but you can't
really get a movement going cuz you don't have any money
right it takes money to put the other movements or what I mean by that
heritage action has trained 6 thousand people they call sentinels
which seems you know just vaguely
dangerous six that's the Sentinels around the country we can call whatever
you like in spite
a at and they've sent them to open meetings and other events to confront
their elected representatives
so those guys who at the Town Hall events you think like
arm and people really matter Obamacare what northerner
they got train by the guys who get paid by the Koch brothers
to go send them to that event that's how money wins
that's how it looks like there's a groundswell and then the media goes all
my fellow that all about
oh my God look at that demonstration that was put together and it looks like
people really against Obamacare and that's what
all the think tanks are saying in on the right side in
and that's all the Republican politicians say oh well I guess people
really don't want health insurance
they're burning their Obamacare card so you know on college campuses it must be
true
know there's a group of incredibly rich people in corporations we're looking to
destroy
the Affordable Care Act so we can get the tiny bit have
health issues that we need back to me the law needs to be a thousand times
more progressive we need to have a public option in it
i think is a mandate that we give our money to the insurance companies and by
the way
the one group that is not participating in in all this
is the insurance companies actually like the law
they've actually spent a lot of money advertising in favor the law because it
guarantees them
customers so that's rich on rich crime and that's fascinating it see our plays
out
but here's two hundred million dollars make sure that we don't get health care
finally Mike Needham CO heritage action says
most ironically you really was a groundswell
a change Washington from the outside K
yep outside a Washington all the way in New York
what he's got to get together make the decisions and then create this fake
grassroots movement
to make sure they win and we lose