Perhaps Robert Creamer, husband of Illinoid Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D), didn’t write the exact language of the Senate and House bills, but he wrote a book a few years ago which was quite prescient. My goodness, one would think he had a crystal ball in his prison cell to help him write exactly what would occur three years into the future.
Big Government has the exclusive story, and Glenn Beck followed up on it this afternoon. (Video below.) You may recall over the summer a video of a healthcare town hall meeting of Rep. Schakowsky. A number of HCAN activists were present and some instructed people on how to drown out any voices of opposition to the democrats’ plan to take over health care. It’s quite possible that Rep. Schakowsky arranged for HCAN to be there. Talk about Astroturf. Schakowski’s husband has close ties to the Illinois director of HCAN.
The plot thickens.
Rep. Schakowsky’s husband, Robert Creamer, used to be the leader of Citizen Action/Illinois. He also founded its predecessor, Illinois Public Action, in which Ms. Schakowsky served as Program Director. He runs a political consulting firm, the Strategic Consulting Group, which lists ACORN and the SEIU among its clients and which made $541,000 working for disgraced former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich.
Creamer resigned from Citizen Action/Illinois after the FBI began investigating him for bank fraud and tax evasion at Illinois Public Action. He was convicted in 2006 and sentenced to five months in federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, plus eleven months of house arrest.
While in prison—or “forced sabbatical,” he called it—Creamer wrote a lengthy political manual, Listen to Your Mother: Stand Up Straight! How Progressives Can Win (Seven Locks Press, 2007).
The book was endorsed by leading Democrats and their allies, including SEIU boss Andy Stern—the most frequent visitor thus far to the Obama White House—and chief Obama strategist David Axelrod, who noted that Creamer’s tome “provides a blueprint for future victories.”
In the book, Creamer draws lessons from decades of experience on the radical left, including the teachings of arch-radical Saul Alinsky, and several episodes from Rep. Schakowsky’s political career. He also lays out a “Progressive Agenda for Structural Change,” which includes a ten-point plan for foisting universal health care on the American people in 2009:
- “We must create a national consensus that health care is a right, not a commodity; and that government must guarantee that right.”
- “We must create a national consensus that the health care system is in crisis.”
- “Our messaging program over the next two years should focus heavily on reducing the credibility of the health insurance industry and focusing on the failure of private health insurance.”
- “We need to systematically forge relationships with large sectors of the business/employer community.”
- “We need to convince political leaders that they owe their elections, at least in part, to the groundswell of support of [sic] universal health care, and that they face political peril if they fail to deliver on universal health care in 2009.”
- “We need not agree in advance on the components of a plan, but we must foster a process that can ultimately yield consensus.”
- “Over the next two years, we must design and organize a massive national field program.”
- “We must focus especially on the mobilization of the labor movement and the faith community.”
- “We must systematically leverage the connections and resources of a massive array of institutions and organizations of all types.”
- “To be successful, we must put in place commitments for hundreds of millions of dollars to be used to finance paid communications and mobilization once the battle is joined.”
Creamer adds: “To win we must not just generate understanding, but emotion—fear, revulsion, anger, disgust.”
Democrats have followed Creamer’s plan to the letter. They have claimed our health care system is in crisis despite polls showing the overwhelming majority of Americans are happy with the care they receive. They have—with the help of President Obama—circulated false horror stories about Americans dying for lack of health care and health insurance.
They have targeted the health insurance industry, with Rep. Schakowsky herself promising to “put the private insurance industry out of business,” though it is a top employer in Illinois. …
You can read the full article and view the video from that summer town hall meeting at Big Government. There are plenty of links, including a link providing the details of Creamer’s attendance at the White House state dinner. In the video below Glenn Beck points out that convicted felons aren’t usually allowed to attend White House functions. I guess that rule is waived for radical leftists.
An absolutely devastating piece, my favorite part of it was the author showing admiration to Saul Alinsky in the forward of the book. It’s just another straw on the camel’s back; the MSM not reporting facts and doing investigative work. Glenn asked during the end of the segment if the people implementing this realized that this would bring an end to their political power and solicited answers why they keep on track even at their own demise. Well the answer is that these leftist/secular/progressives consider themselves “soldiers” of Alinsky (SoA) (and probably have it on their business card as well), so a few fallen comrades is worth the cause. Perhaps in theory, they would consider conservatives to have a legitimate point if they acted like the heathenish Islamic terrorists that they abet.
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