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: Healthy 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.

In recent weeks, GOP pundits and media outlets have attempted to obstruct, conflate and confuse the debate on health care by regurgitating Frank Luntz's health care talking points verbatim. Their favorite red herring? That ole standby, CANADA.

The recent media blitz on our neighbors to the north reminded us of the, ahem, sophisticated story line in South Park's 1999 feature film.

Blind obstructionism and fear-mongering has no place in fixing health care. Join us in defending against the dumbing-down of the health care debate.

Opponents of health care reform have been wringing their hands these last few months. Ever since America elected a president dedicated to fixing our broken system last November, it seems that no amount of spin can distract people from the fact that we're paying billions of dollars for a health care system that doesn't work.

This week, as a last ditch effort, Republican spin-doctor Frank Luntz floated a confidential memo on how to scare Americans into believing health care reform is bad. The only problem: the memo was leaked. And, now, the media and members of Congress are calling his bluff.

Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon called out Luntz's memo for what it is - an attempt to kill health care reform:

Dr. Luntz, the man who developed language designed to promote preemptive war in Iraq and distract from the severity of global warming, is at it again -- this time with a messaging strategy designed to sink our historic opportunity for health care reform.

Let's be clear: this is not a strategy to push certain ideas about health reform. It is a strategy intended solely to kill reform efforts altogether. In his own words, Dr. Luntz has stated, "You're not going to get what you want, but you can kill what they're trying to do."

Among the finer points of Luntz's memo is the section in which he encourages enemies of fixing health care to - as Time magazine put it - "scare people. Especially about their children." Because they can't win the debate on its merits, Luntz recommends fear mongering and double talk to confuse away the issue.

This is the same low road political maneuvering the right wing used to attack President Obama's plan during the 2008 election. And according to Senator Merkley, just like in 2008, it's not going to work for health care:

I have to give Dr. Luntz credit on one front: he points out that Republicans need to appear to be on the "right side of reform" or they lose the health care argument. The problem is that you can't fake support for reform. You're either for improving the quality and affordability of health care or you're against it. You're either for expanding coverage to every American or you're against it. At the end of the day, no matter what talking points they use, each member of Congress is going to have to vote for or against improving our broken health care system.

Luntz has a little tag line that he uses throughout his memo - "words that work." He tries to give our enemies words that will work to derail the movement to fix health care. But Americans have watched politicians talk in circles long enough.

Words that work won't cut it anymore. It's time for Change That Works. We need to let our coworkers, friends, family - anyone who is fed up with the state of our health care system - know about people like Luntz and how important it is to stand up to their lies.

Together, we can cut through the words and create real change in our broken health care system.