DNC: "Grassroots" protesters “as organic as James Traficant’s hair"

By GottaLaff

Big Insurance has no intention of calming their slimy little corporate thugs down. But that's no surprise, now, is it:

“As organic as James Traficant’s hair,” is how the DNC described efforts by the the trade group, America’s Health Insurance Plans, or AHIP.

Well, AHIP has no intention whatsoever of backing off its efforts, an AHIP spokesperson just confirmed in an interview. [...]

Recently, AHIP announced that it was encouraging the insurance industry’s hundreds of thousands of employees to go to town meetings with members of Congress to “confront them” over reform, as Politico put it.

Asked whether AHIP stood by this directive, Zirkelback said AHIP had never urged anyone to “confront” members of Congress. “I never used that term,” Zirkelback said, insisting that AHIP was only urging employees to be “constructive,” and not destructive.

It all depends on what the meaning of "confront" is. Give. Me. A. Break.

But he left no doubt that AHIP would keep encouraging employees to turn out. [...]

To be clear, there’s nothing wrong with AHIP encouraging such participation. But it gives reform proponents an opening to point out that the industry [...] has an enormous amount at stake, is aggressively trying to pump up turnout at these rallies — and has every intention of continuing to do so.