For those who don't know, Tea Party activist David McKalip is the Florida neurosurgeon who sent the now famous picture of President Barack Obama as a Witch Doctor last summer. Now this teabagger leader, who describes himself as "libertarian", is reaching out to Liberal critics of the current senate bill in order to build an alliance with thim to derail the Health Care reform.
As you all know, last week, Jane Hamsher called for an alliance with the Right to defeat the health reform because the Bill isn't "progressive" enough. I guess Mr McKalip read her article for the HuffingtonPost, and decided to agree with her. In fact, David McKalip, in what he describes as "a call to action from an unlikely ally, who appeared many time as an anti-reform expert on Glen Beck's show, tells progressives to call their House representatives and "tell them "No to the Senate Bill".
In an Email (Via TPM), to some important progressives opposed to this bill, McKalip urged them to "Stop the Final Corporate Of Medecine and to Stop the Individual Insurance Mandate". He also demanded them to join the fight, recruit allies and call congress to vote no.
In an interview with TPMmuckraker , McKalip says that the e-mail has so far gone to about 200 people, including many who had called him a racist. Asked whether the e-mail marks a shift in emphasis, he said, "this has always been my position, that giving control of our health care over to corporate America is bad".
I guess Jane Hamsher is happy about McKalip wanting to work with the Left to defeat this bill. She is in good company. I wonder if she will accept to work with a known racist in order to defeat the Bill.