Liberal blog firedoglake assailed “transparent lobbyist funded thuggery.” Health Care for America Now warned its supporters about “the crazy, lobbyist-funded, insurance-industry-supported, potentially violent right wing.” And the Center for American Progress reported about the efforts of “the lobbyist-funded Americans for Prosperity.”
So, those e-mails I’m getting, to go to other congressional districts, print out DNC-made signs, and support “reform,” are those “lobbyist-funded” astroturfing efforts? The DNC and its House and Senate campaign committees have already received over $1.1 million from lobbyists this year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, and Democratic candidates have raised more than twice as much from lobbyists as have Republicans.
And the “right wing” is “insurance-industry-supported?”
The all-time champion in HMO money is Barack Obama. Democrats have pulled in twice as much from the insurance industry this cycle as have the Republicans. And the top recipient of HMO money this cycle is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
If this confuses you, as it eludes so much of the Left, consider what “reform” means and how it profits insurers.
