Our Democracy is threatened. Are we going to sit idly while the GOP shuts down our government to kill the new health law through extortion? If you've seen today's New York Times, you know that
Shortly after President Obama started his second term, a loose-knit coalition of conservative activists led by former Attorney General Edwin Meese III gathered in the capital to plot strategy. Their push to repeal Mr. Obama's health care law was going nowhere, and they desperately needed a new plan.Out of that session, held one morning in a location the members insist on keeping secret, came a little-noticed "blueprint to defunding Obamacare," signed by Mr. Meese and leaders of more than three dozen conservative groups.
This shutdown is the fruit of these conspirators. And the strategy has the financial backing of, you can imagine,
The billionaire Koch brothers, Charles and David
who
have been deeply involved with financing the overall effort. A group linked to the Kochs, Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, disbursed more than $200 million last year to nonprofit organizations involved in the fight. Included was $5 million to Generation Opportunity, which created a buzz last month with an Internet advertisement showing a menacing Uncle Sam figure popping up between a woman's legs during a gynecological exam.
Isn't it time for people to make their opposition to this GOP shutdown known? Isn't it time for
peaceful protests against this dastardly plot to subvert our democracy?
These protests can be on social media, or on foot: Imagine silent candle-carrying marches.