-By Warner Todd Huston
This is momentous news, harrowing news if you are a Democrat that wants Obamacare passed at all costs. The powerful and very rich Service Employees International Union (SEIU), is wavering in its until now stated support of Obamacare.
The Hill is reporting that the SEIU just backed out of an event promoting the Senate’s healthcare bill over “concerns” about the changes that have recently been made to get the support of Joe Lieberman and centrist Democrats.
Apparently the SEIU was going to attend a rah-rah session with the AARP, the liberal advocacy group Families USA, Consumers Union and the American Cancer Society Action Network but unexpectedly dumped out of the event on Wednesday.
For nearly a year the SEIU has been Obama’s biggest supporter (what with SEIU Prez Andy Stern being the most common White House visitor, and all) but after Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid announced that the Senate was dropping the socialist styled “public option,” the SEIU suddenly got cold feet and told the other groups they were out for now.
The SEIU executive board will hold what Lodes described as an “emergency” meeting Wednesday night to decide how to move forward. “Right now, they don’t have the information they need to make this decision,” said Lodes, who added that the SEIU informed the other organizations on Tuesday they would not be joining the press conference.
The SEIU’s action on this rally foreshadows the mounting unease that the left-wing is feeling over Obamacare. Even Howard Dean, former DNC Chairman and on-going representative of the American left-wing, has said the bill should be dumped in its current form. More and more dismay is being reported from the American left-wing on this thing. And the American right has been against this mess from day one. With both side rallying against it, can the mushy middle hold out?
There is an outside chance that we could kill this destructive thing altogether!
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, TheRealityCheck.org, RedState.com, Human Events Magazine, AmericanDailyReview.com, and the New Media Journal, among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events and is currently the co-host of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Conservatism” heard on BlogTalkRadio. Warner is also the editor of the Cook County Page for RedCounty.com.
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