Locking and Loading: Heritage Foundation Gearing Up to Shoot Down 'Obamacare'

[babsbunny]

http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/11821

Submitted by BuzzFlash on Thu, 10/07/2010 - 12:14pm.

BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH

The conservative foundation's sister organization, Heritage Action for America, is looking for $200,000 to launch the mother of all campaigns to kill health care reform.

Whether it is sports, dating, politics, or even health care reform, timing is everything. For the Obama Administration, last week's kick off of the implementation of health care reform legislation - six months after it was signed into law - will probably have little positive effect on the upcoming mid-term elections. For conservatives, ObamaCare as object of evil is always a viable target; viable enough for the Heritage Foundation's Ed Fuelner to think that the time is right to launch a "Money Bomb" campaign aimed at helping the conservative foundation and its sister organization, Heritage Action for America (http://heritageforamerica.org/), kill "Obamacare." ("Money Bomb" is a relatively newly (the 2007 presidential campaign of Ron Paul) coined term referring to a grassroots fundraising effort held over a short time period.)

Fuelner, on behalf the Washington, D.C. mega-foundation (http://www.heritage.org/) he heads, recently sent out an email titled "Repeal Obamacare Money Bomb." Why the Heritage Foundation, described by Matt Bai in a February 25, 2009 New York Times Magazine article as the "Parthenon of the conservative metropolis" -- "with its $60 million budget and eight-story complex, complete with housing for 60 interns, two auditoriums and two broadcast studios" -- needs to breathlessly launch a "Money Bomb" in order to raise a piddling $200,000 isn't quite clear. That would seem like pocket change to Fuellner.

[OmahaBlueDog]

1. I guess we should all plan to pay high medical bills with pancake breakfasts and spaghetti feeds

Maybe Krusteaz and the pasta cartel are behind all of this.

[givemebackmycountry]

2. Don't forget chickens too!

You can pay with Chickens as well.

[Historic NY]

5. coffee cans at the corner store & lunch counter.

[Motown_Johnny]

3. POTUS should just announce that he would veto any repeal.

[blondeatlast]

4. Correction: TAX-EXEMPT Heritage Foundation. nt