Dick Armey forced to resign from DLA Piper Law firm

[PA Democrat]

because of a conflict of interest with his work for FreedomWorks.

Rachel Maddow is the person who exposed all of this. She is reporting on it now on MSNBC.

[PA Democrat]

1. Rachel will be appearing on Meet the Press this Sunday with.....

you guessed it Dick Armey.

[Chorophyll]

3. Oh, that should be entertaining!

I love Rachel.

[rwheeler31]

2. WoW

[rocktivity]

4. She is also going to appear with Armey on Meet The Press this Sunday.

Finally, a reason to get up that early.

:headbang:
rocktivity

[PA Democrat]

6. Must watch TV to be sure.

Dick Armey has a reputation for being a pretty treacherous, nasty SOB. I'll still put my money on Rachel.

[PA Democrat]

5. Partial transcript of Rachel's expose on FreedomWorks on Aug 6

In addition to fronting that group (FreedomWorks), Dick Armey is a senior policy adviser at a law firm called DLA Piper. DLA Piper just happens to have received $830,000 this year, so far, from a giant pharmaceutical firm called Medicines Company. This after the $1.5 million Medicines Company paid Mr. Armey's firm last year.

The fact that Dick Armey and FreedomWorks are standing alongside regular Joes like Rick Scott to lead the charge against health care reform could be just a coincidence. Or it could be a stark reminder of who we're dealing with here. Who is actively organizing the campaign against health care reform? Scaring real Americans with increasingly paranoid and kooky lies about health care and then providing a script for how to express that fear.

These are the pros, very well-compensated pros. They do this all the time. It's a P.R. industry. It's a lobbying industry. And they have a clear vested financial interest in seeing that the health care industry is not reformed-not now, not ever.

But the prospect of health care reform is up against, is a big, expensive corporate P.R. effort-and as I've said before, should be reported as such.

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