The people had forfeited the confidence of the government and could win it back only by redoubled efforts. Wouldn’t it be easier to dissolve the people and elect another in their place? — Berthold Brecht.
Nancy Morgan, at American Thinker, comments on the anger of the democrat elite at the common people daring to talk back.
The face-off between the ruling party and the people continues to unfold, as Democrat politicians hold town hall meetings across the country to build support for the Obama administration’s latest power grab, misleadingly labeled ‘health care reform.’
The faux outrage politicians manufacture on demand has been replaced by real outrage. Outrage at the American people for failing to understand the nuances, the broad outline of a 1,000 page plus bill that most politicians haven’t even read. Hey, that’s what staff is for, explained new Democrat, Arlen Spector.
Peons from fly-over country are daring to challenge the carefully scripted and (deliberately?) misleading talking points. Talking points which, by the way, have been endorsed by the media. Don’t these guys read the New York Times?
Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are using the standard liberal tactic of diverting attention from the issue by demonizing the dissenter, in this case, the American people. According to Pelosi and Reid, voicing objections to the federal government’s take over of 17% of the formerly free market economy is ‘un-American.’ Harry Reid has gone a step further, tarring dissenter’s as ‘evil mongers.’
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs has blithely dismissed the burgeoning dissent by informing one and all that these ‘townhalls are not representative of America.’ Obama, meanwhile, is trying to divert the issue by blaming the ‘headline hungry television networks’, accusing them of ‘enflaming an ugly backlash.’
Unused to any opposition that can’t be spun to their advantage or ignored, Democrats are desperately trying to convince Americans that the tidal wave of opposition is not genuine. Used to viewing every issue in political terms, our elected officials are actually convinced that the disruptive townhalls are merely the product of an evil conservative cabal. After all, every person these lawmakers know agree with them on this issue. Its called the ‘inside the beltway syndrome.’
Despite a new $12 million ad campaign designed to soothe Americans into relying on misplaced compassion instead of common sense, pesky Joe Six-Pack and Susy Homemaker still don’t get it. And adding insult to injury, American citizens are starting to question where all the money is coming from to run these ads. And by the way, who’s signing the paychecks for the new army of health care advocates who are being paid $12 to $13 an hour for their support? Inquiring minds want to know.
Answers to these questions are not forthcoming. Like the classic case of a wife catching her husband in bed with another woman, the question has become, “Who are you going to believe? Me, or your lying eyes?”
Thalpy
This might be great fun if the consequences weren’t so dire. Imagine someone actually saying no to Nancy Pelosi (other than her husband, of course-and he’d probably have to say “no thank you”). Barbara Boxer’s husband would have to say “No thank you, Senator). Do we all tremble now? These twits haven’t heard no often enough in their lives and we can only hope that this is just the beginning.
Scott D
The American public is not evaluating whether the uproar is a cabal or not. They are responding to it by saying, “Yeah, that’s what I think, too!” How many people came in by bus and how many by foot is fairly irrelevant.
steve risher
“The people had forfeited the confidence of the government and could win it back only by redoubled efforts. Wouldn’t it be easier to dissolve the people and elect another in their place?—Berthold Brecht.
The ruling elites have been busily engaged in this since the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act. Add to that their de facto support for massive illegal immigration.
Indoctrination in Cultural Marxism and hatred of historic America via the education industry and mass media also equates to a program of
dissolution by cultural genocide. I hate loose usage of the word “genocide”, but I am just using one of the definitions provided by the UN.
Maggie's Farm
QQQ…
“If the government doesn’t trust the people, why doesn’t it dissolve them and elect a new people?”
Berthold Brecht, speculatively attributed to H.L. Mencken at a good post at Big Lizards…
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