Democrats’ Fear Is Showing on Health Care This administration feels it is the only legitimate beneficiary of “people power.”
By Jonah Goldberg The Democratic party is panicking, lashing out like a cornered animal, all because its effort to take over the health-care industry is coming apart like so much wet toilet paper. Nancy Pelosi, who will get her own bound volume in the annals of asininity, has outdone herself. When asked by a reporter whether the protests at various town-hall meetings represented legitimate grassroots opposition or were manufactured “AstroTurf” stunts<http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YjBmMGVlMWVkOTU1YzIyMzQ0OWNiNjBhMjU1NzMwYjA=&w=MA==#>, she replied, “I think they’re AstroTurf. You be the judge. They’re carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on health care.” Now this is a *pas de trois* of dishonesty, slander, and idiocy. Not only is Pelosi lying when she says protesters are bringing swastikas to these town halls, not only is she suggesting that American citizens are Nazis for having the effrontery to get in the way of Obamacare, but she’s also saying that the alleged swastikas are obvious proof that these protests are manufactured by slick P.R. gurus. How does that work? What public-relations genius says: “Okay, we need these protests to seem like an authentic backlash of real Americans. 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Barbara Boxer insists the protests have to be fake because the protesters are too “well-dressed.” Likewise, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says this is all “manufactured anger” because the protesters — he calls<http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YjBmMGVlMWVkOTU1YzIyMzQ0OWNiNjBhMjU1NzMwYjA=&w=MA==#> them the “Brooks Brothers Brigade” — are too tastefully appointed to be authentic protesters. Apparently only filthy hippies can petition government. This, of course, doesn’t preclude the possibility that the protesters are also Nazis; they were snappy dressers (Hugo Boss made SS uniforms, after all). But we’ll leave that there. The White House is asking supporters to submit the names of anyone who forwards e-mail<http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YjBmMGVlMWVkOTU1YzIyMzQ0OWNiNjBhMjU1NzMwYjA=&w=MA==#> with “fishy” information. “Fishy information” herewith defined as anything that serves as a speed bump for the White House steamroller. The DNC has put out an ad claiming that the “right-wing extremist base” is out to “destroy” Barack Obama, so it has unleashed “angry mobs . . . mob activity straight from the playbook of high-level Republican political operatives. They have no plan for moving our country forward, so they’ve called out the mob.” The DNC ad points to a memo written by an activist named Bob MacGuffie as proof that Republican political ops are pulling the strings. It turns out that MacGuffie, a decent-seeming fellow, is a rank amateur whose Right Principles PAC has collected a mere $5,017 and disbursed the staggering sum of $1,777, and has 23 members on Facebook and five followers on Twitter, according to *The Weekly Standard*’s Mary Katharine Ham. It’s difficult for mere mortals like us to fully grasp the enormousness of the Democrats’ hypocrisy. Put aside all that talk of dissent being the highest form of patriotism. Overlook that Democrats would have upended jerry cans of gasoline and immolated themselves in protest if the Bush administration had asked people to inform on their neighbors. You can even forget that the DNC’s claims are untrue. But how can we ignore the fact that the world’s most famous community organizer<http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YjBmMGVlMWVkOTU1YzIyMzQ0OWNiNjBhMjU1NzMwYjA=&w=MA==#> is whining about community organizing? But wait: It gets better. As of this writing, the entire BarackObama.com site was dedicated to “Organizing for America,” with a special page dedicated to “Organizing for Health Care,” where supporters are asked to flood town halls and “make certain your members of Congress know that you’re counting on them to act.” They only thing they left out is the instruction to leave the Brooks Brothers jackets and swastikas at home. CONTINUED 1 2<http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YjBmMGVlMWVkOTU1YzIyMzQ0OWNiNjBhMjU1NzMwYjA=&w=MQ==> Next<http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YjBmMGVlMWVkOTU1YzIyMzQ0OWNiNjBhMjU1NzMwYjA=&w=MQ==> > On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 7:58 PM, coatesmoe <[email protected]> wrote: > > The point is that Americans are not allowed to have an affordable > health care system. The country is corrupt to the bone. The insurance > companies have had their good times for a long time and now someone is > asking them to think about those who are paying the bills. Pictures in > the press about sick people being dumped on the sidewalks and women > with children dying of cancer do not touch the American soul. > Importance is the bonus to the top floor and the commissions to the > reps. More than anything is the kickbacks to the politicians and the > promise to the press that their rags will be filled with > advertisements. What is there to say about a country that produces a > Sara Palin, Beck, Coulture and feels that god speaks to us through the > Rush Limbaugh voice. Barnum said that there is one born every day, and > I ask my self is a good portion of the Americans the suckers for the > health insurance companies. Of course from where I sit, I can walk in > to any hospital and get treated without selling my children and home. > What America needs is a little hope, hope that the goal is the people > and not to filling the plates of those who have to much. > > On Aug 9, 5:57 am, RICHARD BROWN <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sage, > > Obama is not thinking about this. He is trying the traditional method > > of using government to solve the problems. It has been tested and has > > failed, over and over again. I could make a list, but you know what I > > mean and I don't have all night to compile it. :-) > > We need to complete the revolution. The wheel of government rule > > revolves from freedom to tyranny. When the colonies began they were > > pretty free. By the time of the Boston tea party King George and his > > parliament were becoming rather tyrannical so the founding fathers > > thought the wheel needed to revolve, thus the revolution, which > > actually was inspired by the Glorious Revolution that took place in > > England in 1688-1689. Anyone for a Constitutonal Convention? > > > > On Aug 8, 8:11 pm, Sage2 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Richard, > > > > > Common sense " thinking" can be done within a > > > paradigm without taking a radical approach ( paradigm shift ) that has > > > not been studied, tested or otherwise established. Especially when > > > done under the guise of a false perception of fabricated mandate > > > proposed by the liberal socialist Democrats. Obama was voted in to > > > bring in common sense change not a complete transformation. Perhaps > > > they are finally opening their eyes but > > > stupidity runs deep in that party. > > > > > > *************************************************************************** > ****************************************** > > > > > On Aug 8, 10:24 pm, RICHARD BROWN <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > It has been said, "Tradition is easier than thinking." > > > > > > On Aug 8, 3:49 pm, Sage2 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > The liberal Democrats in their over exaggerated " mandate > " > > > > > are attempting to perpetrate a political, social and cultural " > > > > > paradigm shift " to in effect destroy the traditional American way > of > > > > > life. So of course people will come out and react. The people at > these > > > > > town hall meetings are coming out because the liberals had the " > > > > > audacity " to awaken the sleeping bear with their prodding & > taunting. > > > > > Only idiots challenge a sleeping bear. My feeling is that those > doing > > > > > the taunting & prodding will be removed with one swipe of the claws > > > > > come 2010,2012. > > > > > > > On Aug 7, 10:43 pm, rigsy03 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > >http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html-Hidequoted text - > > > > > > - Show quoted text - > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
