Fan mail for Mr. Flag

I decided to take a break from snitching this morning to tell Mr. Flag & co. what a good job they are doing.

Dear Mr. Flag -

Good morning!

I wanted to congratulate you on all the excellent publicity that your efforts are getting in the news media.

In case you missed it, there was this really nice article, all about you and your lovely boss, Czarina Nancy deParle. I know you are busy so I will pull out some of the compliments that the author, one Michelle Malkin, had for you and your hardworking team:

Czardom has its privileges. This week, President Obama's health care overlord, Nancy DeParle, launched a taxpayer-funded initiative to recruit an Internet Snitch Brigade that will combat "disinformation about health insurance reform."

That's ya'll, right?!?! How exciting to see your efforts being noticed by the public! What a great boost for your morale!!!

Here's some more kudos:

Lawmakers must also dig far beyond the health care czar's flagging operation. Last month, a Washington, D.C., citizen watchdog group filed suit to force the White House to disclose which health care lobbyists and executives it had met with this year to discuss the government health care takeover legislation. White House counsel Greg Craig refused to disclose which administration officials attended the meetings. But at least two of the industry visitors have ties to DeParle.

William C. Weldon is chairman of Johnson & Johnson, which paid DeParle $7,500 for a recent speech. Wayne Smith is chief executive of Community Health Systems, which merged with Triad Hospitals — where DeParle served on the board of directors. DeParle's options were converted to cash payments worth $1.05 million.

Despite Obama's lip service to transparency, the public is in the dark about which assets DeParle has divested; how many times, if any, DeParle has recused herself from policy matters and meetings; and the exact nature of her conversations with health care executives. While White House press secretary Robert Gibbs lambastes the corporate health care ties of Republican opponents, he has shrugged off the corporate ties of the woman leading the Obamacare charge.

Wow - your boss and other colleagues sound so great. It must be really fun working with them, and so rewarding for you and your team to receive these accolades from a grateful nation! Keep up the good work!!!

Eyes open, email ready -

A Concerned Citizen

Fishy report to White House #2

Here is today's report to Mr. Flag:

Dear Mr. Flag:

Today, I became aware of two miscreants who are using the website of The Atlantic magazine to spread hysterical negative information about the health care reform plan. One Megan McCardle and one Daniel Indiviglio were witnessed using logic and economic principles to attack the administration's position on health care reform. You should look into these two troublemakers right away.

Here is suspect McCardle using her logical powers to defend the evil drug companies that have mobilized their dark forces against us, claiming that there is some positive benefit to society when these companies make a profit (!):

Well, we don't need birth control either--we could just decide to be celibate--but I don't hear so much complaining about the commercials for Seasonale or the HPV vaccine.

I take the point that we're "medicalizing" normal parts of the human condition. But I'm not sure how useful that insight is. Disease and early death is a normal part of the human condition, and thank God we've medicalized it! I can live with a headache, so should I retire to a dark room rather than "medicalizing" my condition and taking an aspirin?

I am horrified. You can find more of this sort of filth here: http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/

And here is suspect Indiviglio using logic to attack that poor defenseless Mr. Larry Summers:

Healthcare reform advocates would argue that this equation leaves out a variable: tax increases to help pay for the public option. Reform will be deficit-neutral. Sure, but you could similarly just raise taxes to better pay for Medicare cost increases without a public healthcare option. You could just make Medicare itself deficit-neutral through tax increases.

The mouth on this one! You can read the whole awful thing here. http://business.theatlantic.com/2009/08/will_healthcare_reform_help_the_us_economy.php These right wing extremists at The Atlantic make me sick!

I hope you can do something about them. Maybe ask that nice Andrew Sullivan to go collect some additional information about these two.

On the case!

A concerned citizen

We'll put your email address in a lockbox

And this is why I have created a special email account for my important communications with the White House.

"Nobody is collecting names," Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said at today's the White House press briefing. "Nobody's keeping anybody's email."

Asked later by THE WEEKLY STANDARD if the White House is required by law to save all correspondence it receives, Gibbs acknowledged, "Obviously, the National Archives documents correspondence with the White House."

That email address again

Send your citizen reports to: flag@whitehouse.gov

(every mention of the address apparently helps the spammers find it!)

FF

First report to the White House

Here is my first message to the mysterious Colonel Flag at the White House.

Dear Colonel Flag:

Thank you for setting up this great system for reporting on what the enemies of the people are doing. I hope that you will use all the resources available to the White House to track down these people and put a swift end to their spontaneous extremist efforts to participate in our representative democracy by expressing their opposition to health care reform. They must be stopped.

I wanted to write to you about the activities of this man:

His name is Doug Elmendorf, and he is apparently the head of a shadowy organization called the Congressional Budget Office. He has been using facts and figures to discredit the Democrats health care legislation. I have heard from my neighbors and family members, through various chain emails and internet websites, that he has sent three (!!!) letters (!!!) to members of Congress that say nasty things about how the health care bill they are working so hard on may bankrupt our country. It seems that he and his cabal of professional economists (!!!) have read this bill and made some predictions based on credible economic models. I am very frightened of this Elmendorf and these other wizards/economists who use their complex algorithms and out-years projections as weapons against us. In this photo, he is pictured in front of what appears to be an American flag. Who does he think he is fooling????? I think he is doing incalculable harm to our Dear Leader (or is it Supreme Leader - please let me know - I don't want to get that wrong!), President Obama.

I hope you can do something about this Elmendorf character before it is too late. He is very fishy.

Thank you,

A concerned citizen

I will post any reply I get (not really expecting one), and will also post any additional messages I send in my efforts to assist the White House.