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After Authoring Memo On How To Kill Health Reform, CNN's
Alex Castellanos Feigns Interest In Bipartisanship
By Lee Fang on Oct 1st, 2009 at 11:12 am
Yesterday on CNN's Situation Room, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL)
stood by his criticism of the Republican healthcare plan -
which is "don't get sick," and if you do get sick, "die
quickly" - to a panel of mostly hostile CNN contributors and
GOP consultant Alex Castellanos.
Castellanos repeatedly attacked Grayson, comparing him at
one point to Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The other
CNN hosts rallied to Castellanos' side: Joe Johns
incredulously asked if Grayson wanted a "thoughtful
conversation about important ideas" and Gloria Borger
appeared to be confused by the notion that talking about the
number of people dying from a lack of health insurance was
getting the "debate back on track."
Playing the victim, Castellanos feigned Republican
willingness to work in a bipartisan manner to achieve
universal care:
CASTELLANOS: Obama and Republican - President Obama put that
on the table. If he put tort reform, if he put portability,
if he put shopping across state lines, he could put together
a package right now and Republicans would stand with him 100
percent.
Watch it:
Castellanos, who is a constant fixture on CNN as regular
pundit, is also a consultant to a major Republican
advertising firm called National Media Inc. Not only does he
fashion himself as the "father of the modern attack ad," but
Castellanos is also the father of the Republican health plan
Grayson is condemning. In July, Castellanos wrote a memo for
the GOP leadership on how to kill health reform. The memo
emphasized the use of buzzwords to characterize Democratic
plans - like "risky" and "experiment" - but most importantly
defined the ultimate goal: "If we slow this sausage-making
process down, we can defeat it."
The GOP has followed Castellano's advice in every regard.
After the memo's release, the RNC produced ads using the
recommended buzzwords, House Republicans have waged "floor
games" as a stalling tactic to slow the legislative process,
and Republican Senators have obstructed markups with
ridiculous, obstructionist amendments. One of the GOP's
chief negotiators, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), has said he
"take[s] pride in being an obstructionist."
Meanwhile, according to the Harvard study Grayson cites,
someone dies every twelve minutes because they lack health
insurance.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/01/castellanos-cnn-grayson/
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