[LibertarianExchange] Whitehouse's statements.

[Roderick T. Beaman]

>From the blog of The Providence Journal:
Sen. (Sheldon) Whitehouse made news during a Senate speech in late December 
when he slammed opponents of health-care legislation as being supported by 
fanatics and "right-wing militia" and Aryan support groups.
He likened health-care opponents to an "aggrieved minority" -- one whose 
"malignant and vindictive passions" have created a toxic atmosphere in the 
Senate and could lead the country down a road to atrocities like those 
perpetrated by Nazis and Southern racists.
 


Whitehouse's statements illustrate the problem with the entire debate in this 
country.  The playing field puts libertarians, conservatives and Republicans, 
what is called roughly the Right, at a disadvantage.  People like him and 
Pelosi, The New York Times, Ed Schultz, Obama, Bill Press, etc. can call us 
names like this, yet if we respond in kind with 'communist' or even the less 
pejorative 'socialist', it is called McCarthyism.   Yet the philosophic 
similarities between the mainstream  Democrats and liberals on the one hand and 
the socialist/communists on the other, is far greater than any between us and 
Nazis, Aryan Nationers, etc.      

Having lived most of my life in Rhode Island, I can vouch that Whitehouse is 
living proof that in that state, Mickey Mouse could be elected if he ran as a 
Democrat.   


 Roderick T. Beaman,D.O.
Board Certified Family Physician
Politicians and government officials are like diapers. 
They should be changed often and for the same reasons.