Democrats Steal Tea Party Symbol to Promote Obamacare
by Joel
B. Pollak 21 Mar 2014, 8:23 AM PDT
How desperate are Democrats to
sell Obamacare? So desperate that they're adopting the Tea Party's beloved
symbol, the Gadsden "Don't Tread on Me" flag, to sell it, as per this
tweet by Democrat strategist Christine Pelosi (yes, that Pelosi family). The
flag is a national symbol, of course, but Democrats have spent the last several
years describing it as some kind of latter-day version of the Confederate
battle flag, or worse.
Matt Welch of Reason.com has a nice roundup of past
Democrat statements about the Gadsden
flag. The irony is compounded by the fact that the Gadsden became popular at Tea Party rallies
in 2009-10 partly because Obamacare
is so damaging to liberty. At the massive anti-Obamacare rally that assembled
on Capitol Hill on the weekend, four years ago, that Obamacare was signed, the
Gadsden flag was flying all over the West Lawn.
Obamacare
Obamacare
is Barack Obama’s signature policy
initiative.
Note: CGI Group Inc.
was the Obamacare contractor that
developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Donna
S. Morea was the EVP for the CGI Group
Inc., and a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Committee for Economic Development, the New America Foundation, and the Aspen Institute (think tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and is the founder
& chairman for the Open Society
Foundations.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank).
Megan
McArdle was a fellow at the New
America Foundation, and is married to Peter
Suderman.
Peter Suderman is
married to Megan McArdle, and a senior
editor for Reason.
Matt
Welch is the editor in chief for Reason.
Reason
is a publication for the Reason
Foundation.
David
H. Koch is a trustee at the Reason
Foundation, and a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
C.
Boyden Gray is a trustee at the Reason
Foundation, and a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank).
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