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Just received this email with a fantastic video from SEIU, a Health Care for America Now (HCAN) partner at both the national and state level:

 

Dear Lorraine,

Is it just me, or do our opponents sound crazier every day?

Take opponents of health care reform; they're spending millions of dollars on TV ads that call the President's plan "socialism," "rationing," and "a government takeover." It sort of makes you wonder - where do these people come up with this stuff?

Meet HAARM: Health Americans Against Reforming Medicine - www.haarm.org



HAARM is what we imagine is happening behind the scenes of the anti-health care reform movement. An organization dead set on torpedoing any efforts to fix America's broken health care system.

We've even made a video to show what it looks like inside one of their late night brainstorming sessions. Take a look: www.haarm.org

Obviously, HAARM isn't real, but the stuff they say in the video really does come straight out of the Republican playbook. And, with a debate as serious as reforming health care, taking your talking points from Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh is simply unacceptable.

Will you watch the video and share it with your friends? We need to get the message to our opponents that we're not buying their nonsense; it's time for a serious conversation about fixing health care.

Thanks,
Jessica Kutch
Online Campaign Director
SEIU Healthcare 
 

Kutch's mention of a "republican play book" isn't hypothetical. Opponents of reform really are working from a memo by Frank Luntz that has guided their talking points over the past two months. Watch Luntz's talking points in action here and here.