Obama-Care Rally in Austin Turns to Spontaneous Tea Party at Texas Capitol dennis1946

Obama-Care Rally in Austin Turns to Spontaneous Tea Party at Texas Capitol

More than 800 Texans converged at the Texas Capitol last weekend to counter a pro-ObamaCare event sponsored by a local chapter of Organizing for America - Barack Obama’s team of community organizers who try to rally grassroots support for the president’s key initiatives. Organizing For America, the “Astroturf” arm of the Obama administration, called for a rally on the capitol steps in Austin Sunday in support of the current healthcare reform bill. Five people show up to say, Sí, se puede!

It was their attempt to counter the protests against that abomination. They were outnumbered 80 to 1 by the “mob”, a counter protest organized with less than 24 hours notice.

The “mob”, American now knows thanks to Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and others, is the Democrat’s characterization of ordinary citizens who do not want the government to take control of healthcare.

It is interesting to watch the dynamics play out on this. The O’team calls grassroots attempts to defeat it a “mob” but their own “Astroturf” attempts to push it through “plain old Americans the care”.

The old media can continue to push that line all they want, but America isn’t buying it.

Hundreds of ObamaCare supporters were expected to attend a rally at 11 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 9 at the Texas State Capitol, according to a post on the Organizing for America web site. At least 400 supporters signed up to attend the rally before the event page was taken down days before their rally was supposed to happen.

Interestingly, Organizing for America web organizers took the event page down after local Austin conservative groups, including Americans for Prosperity & others, began circulating the event’s information among their members.

On Sunday, somewhere between 800 – 1,000 supporters of a free market solution to the health care issue showed up at the Capitol to protest the Organizing For America event, only to find that not a single pro-ObamaCare person could be found on site.

“It looks like the Organizing for America folks realized that they are heavily outnumbered on this issue,” said Cindy Mallette, Grassroots and Communications Coordinator for AFP-Texas.

“A majority of Americans are opposed to the plan that is now in Congress, and it’s no wonder why. The bill President Obama is trying to push through would add $1 trillion to the already bloated national debt. Government has been a failure at running Medicare, Social Security, the U.S. Postal Service and with fixing the nation’s economy. What makes them think they’ll do any different after taking over the health care system?,” Mallette asked.

The rally turned into an impromptu Tea Party when local doctors, small business owners, government workers and other ordinary Americans took turns talking to the crowd through a bull horn about why the proposed “health care reform” bill in Congress will be bad for the U.S.

Lizzette Scinski suffered an debilitating accident while working for the U.S.

Department of Agriculture in Wyoming. Now unable to work, she told rally attendees that she must suffer through a government workman’s comp program that denies much-needed treatments and limits her access to doctors:

Lizette Scinski Speaks Out on Healthcare from Americans for Prosperity - TX on Vimeo.

Click here to see Lizzette’s speech, as well as interviews from other people who attended Sunday’s impromptu tea party.

The current plan before Congress will ensure that our freedom to choose our doctors, our health care plans, and our courses of treatment will be taken away and handed over to a government bureaucrat. It’s not a made-up fable spread around by fatcats in the insurance industry — it’s a fact that President Barack Obama has himself stated that he wants to see take place:

For more information, visit Patients United Now. Also, be sure to sign the Hands Off My Healthcare pledge by clicking here.

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