FreedomWorks Launches 'No Health Care Reconciliation.com'

By Adam Brandon on March 04, 2010

A new web site was launched today in an effort to give citizens a voice in government’s continued, aggressive attempts to takeover healthcare. NoHealthCareReconciliation.com, an online petition website, was launched by FreedomWorks to give the public a voice on this backroom attempt to bypass the will of the people. "We’re hearing a lot of pent up anger over this brazen last-ditch effort to take over healthcare," said Matt Kibbe, President of FreedomWorks. "These arrogant procedural games simply will not be tolerated by the American people. Today, NoHealthCareReconciliation.com is giving them a voice."

"President Obama is getting desperate," said FreedomWorks Chairman, Dick Armey. "When he was a Senator, he supported a single payer system. He has since retreated to a government option, and now to a government knows best federal mandate with price controls that will savage private insurance. All the while he has not listened to or considered Republican alternatives, until he was in front of cameras. This is an exercise in using a sledge hammer to achieve a short term political goal instead of taking the time to create good public policy."

Budget Reconciliation was created in the Senate to enable the chamber to move quickly on crucial matters that affect the federal budget and basic government operations. Using it to ram through a partisan political agenda is a perversion of its original intent and has conservatives and independents alike hopping mad.

In addition to the abuse of parliamentary procedure, reconciliation violates the spirit of the April, 2009 DeMint Amendment that passed the Senate by virtue of a unanimous consent. The DeMint amendment requires a "point of order" for 60 votes to pass on any proposed health care legislation that would prevent Americans from keeping their current health care plan.

FreedomWorks’ launch of NoHealthCareReconciliation.com will be accompanied by an aggressive online organizing campaign for concerned citizens as well as active members of the tea party movement. Through the online war room, activists will also be able to email and call their legislators as well as find updated briefing materials and target lists.

Petition signatures will be delivered to Congress to reinforce the American public’s distaste for ObamaCare - and the parliamentary tricks that the left is stooping to in order to pass it.

 

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