By GottaLaff
Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas) is resigning from DLA Piper law firm amid a wave of negative attention his grassroots organization, Freedom Works, has drawn for helping to organize protesters at health care town hall meetings with members of Congress.
[...] Armey said that he was concerned about the media scrutiny the health care protests were drawing to the firm he has been associated with since retiring from Congress.
As he should be.
“The firm is busy with its business, and shouldn’t be asked to take time out from their work, to defend themselves of spurious allegations,” Armey said. “No client of this firm is going to be free to mind its own business without harassment as long as I’m associated with it.”
He has a real flair for stating the obvious, doesn't he?
In a statement Armey said, “It is painful and frustrating to see a good, decent, able and effective partnership of honorable men and women and their clients attacked for things in which they are not involved simply because of their association with me. One would expect a higher degree of competence and professionalism from members of the media than spurious attacks on innocent bystanders.”
1. Somehow juxtaposing the words "innocent" and "Armey" doesn't cut it.
2. They weren't involved with astroturfing? Really? See: Show, The Rachel Maddow.
To that end, Armey, who had been with the law firm for six years, said that he intends to devote his full attention to FreedomWorks.
I wouldn't exactly characterize that as an upgrade.
“It is imperative for me, within the context of my life’s work in the defense of personal liberty against the encroachments of big government, to give my undivided attention to the work we do at FreedomWorks. In short, the threat to personal liberty in America is so serious and imminent at this time that it requires the full commitment of my efforts. While I consider it a personal sacrifice to leave DLA Piper, it is a sacrifice I must make in light of the important work I am committed to at FreedomWorks.”
What would we do with out Dickle Me to save us from Big Bad Obama? Without Dickle's selfless sacrifice, our very lives could be at stake! Democracy as we know it would die! In fact, we'd all die! We owe him our souls! God bless Dickle Me Armey! ::sniffle, snuffle, schmerfuggle, slobbergibble::
I'm sorry. I need a moment. I'm overwhelmed. I must go to my Quiet Place.
Armey told POLITICO he intends to counter misinformation about FreedomWorks’ role in the health care protests and said there have been no disruptions of any town hall meetings where his group has helped organize participants.
“That’s simply not true. We have always emphasized making a civil presentation. There’s been nobody at a town hall meeting who has been bused in, at least not by FreedomWorks.”
Take it away, Rachel! After all, he'll be on Meet the Press with you this Sunday.
Rather, he said, opposition over the prospect of government-run health care is organic.
As organic as say, astroturf? Of course, all that "organic" opposition has nothing to do with the promos, lists of emotionally charged talking points, and instructions fed to them.
This is one Armey that has nothing to do with intelligence, military or otherwise.
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