People are showing up at town halls meeting with their representatives by the hundreds in small towns and by the thousands in big cities.
According to David Axelrod, one of our dear leader's chief political advisers and a man who has grown rich from organizing manufactured anger that he himself named AstroTurfing, what is happening now is not a grass roots movement.
Marching orders, literally, have gone out to Axelrod's and Obama's usual robots to pack the halls and interfere, but it isn't working because the real passion of people who want answers from their representatives far outweighs any manufactured angst they can muster.
Obama, the community organizer, made his bones sending people out on fake protests with their little matching t-shirts and hats, professionally printed signs, busing them where they needed to go, giving them catchy slogans like "What do we want? Fill in the blank. When do we want it? Now." The media showed up and dutifully reported, never mentioning that it was clearly staged. Nope. Nothing phony here.
There was a rally in Columbus, Ohio this past weekend that drew, by police count eight to ten thousand peaceful protesters who stood in alternating heat and rain for hours to listen to speeches about health care reform and a talk by Judge Andrew Napolitano. It was barely mentioned by mainstream media, and when it was, they said the number of people there were two or three hundred. They lied.
Let Code Pink show up with six protesters somewhere and there are more cameras and reporters than there are protesters.
But now we're looking out over a sea of gray and white hair, t-shirts with no slogans, no signs or a few hastily made hand painted ones and radical chants of "Read the bill" or "What's the rush?"
Oh, yeah, nothing grass roots about this.
Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, her smile etched in granite, told the media these people packing town halls were nothing but AstroTurf. Brooks Brothers people, i.e. people hired by those nasty rich people to show up and mob the town hall meetings. You remember those rich people. The ones who sit around in their big houses and eat caviar 24/7, twirling their mustaches and are good for nothing except paying for her health care plan and most of the other taxes that keep this country moving. Those evil doers.
The mainstream media, thirteen of whom went to work for the Obama administration as soon as the election was over, began using precisely the same phrasing as if they were reading from political talking points.
Most of the audiences listen respectfully, until something stupid is said. One representative, with a straight face, claimed that the proposed new health care plan would be running at a $6 billion surplus in ten years. The audience erupted into gales of laughter. The same thing happened to Timmy Geitner when he was overseas and said the American economy was perfectly fine.
One man wanted to know why there was such a rush to pass this bill when it took Obama six months to pick out a dog for his children.
Seniors are worried about their end of life care, and they should be. One of Obama's Czars, Cass Sunstein, believes in a Senior Death Discount. He believes that young people's lives have more value than older people's lives, and that after a little counseling, older people will come to that conclusion as well. As older people are becoming very well aware, end of life counseling is in this bill. Here, dad, take the pain pill. You don't really need the surgery. Let someone else have it. Someone more worthy.
It starts out voluntary, but things beginning with a voluntary request have a way of evolving into a non-voluntary demand. This has happened in Canada and Great Britain.
Can you imagine being the parent of a Cass Sunstein and putting him in charge of your "Do Not Resuscitate" document. You faint and they'll be removing your organs.
On his scale of worthiness, a smart dog is worth more than a retarded child. He said it, not me.
You can't make this stuff up. Read his book, "Nudge". His purpose isn't to push people in a certain direction, but to take away options so that they'll be directed to go where he wants them, like shutting down paths in a maze until the rat ends up at the only possible destination. Single payer health care., for instance. Or our parents and then us opting for that extra dose of morphine instead of a costly life saving procedure that might give us an extra five years.
National Review On line editor at large Jonah Goldberg has said that the White House's response to the protesters is bizarre and fundamentally un American. When Obama was running for office, he considered dissent the highest form of patriotism (in their little matching t-shirts and pre-printed signs). Jonah thinks the White House has backed itself into a corner and is lashing out. The president and his fellow Dems can't defend the Health Care Bill so they're attacking citizens in an act of desperation.
Now we have real citizens, genuinely concerned about what's going on in their country, and Obama and his minions don't know what to make of it. They've never seen anything like this because they're so used to manufactured anger. How could people possibly be REALLY angry. And how do we put them in their place? We refer to them as Teabaggers. Or AstroTurfers. Or Mobs. Or we have Barbara Boxer putting her foot in it once again and acting bemused because the protesters are "too well dressed". I suppose she could pull out some more resolutions from the NAACP. That's worked so well for her in the past.
Is this woman really as stupid as she appears?
I'm watching some of these town hall meetings and I'm seeing a sea of gray and white heads; people of all shapes, sizes and colors; people with papers and pencils in their hands; people engaged and who want answers. And yes, people who have been watching their representatives sign massive legislation without bothering to read it. They're confused and they're angry.
I'm watching huge rallies of families bringing their children, listening respectfully to speakers. All people who have probably never rallied, protested or gone to town meetings in their lives.
I'm watching a president and many of his fellow Democrats dismiss and insult these Americans for doing what Americans are supposed to do.
They have stepped on the tail of a sleeping guard dog. It's beginning to growl and they'd better take heed.
Don't tread on me.
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