Ronald Wilson Reagan“Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem”
Barack Hussein OBAMA“Let RUSH HealthCare Reform but take our time helping the TROOPS when asked.”
The DNC Will Be Disappointed to Learn Nearly 60 Percent of the Country is Part of ‘Extremist Mob’
There is so very much that is objectionable about the Left’s and the DNC’s response to opposition to the health-care bill at town halls across the country, that it’s hard to know where to begin.
But let me take a stab at one detail that might become problematic for the bill’s proponents. Attacking its critics as “extremist,” “right-wing” “mobs,” “pawns” of the insurance agencies and “lobbyists,” and otherwise smearing them shamelessly might work if the crowd really were a vocal minority not reflective of public opinion, and if the descriptions were accurate of something approaching most of them.
But neither is true. Given that, one would think the DNC would tread more lightly than this.
The Democratic Party will pay far lower a price for their immature rhetorical abuse of voters than the Republican Party would, thanks to many friends in the media who will take the press release at face value and investigate the “mobs” forthwith. The White House will pay a lower price than a Republican White House would have for asking citizens to report their neighbors to the administration for spreading anything “fishy” about the President’s plans, even via “casual conversation.” (Do you remember when local police directives to “see something, say something” to prevent possible terrorist attacks and Homeland Security suggestions to “report suspicious behavior” were a cause for civil libertarian outrage on the Left? But those were designed to protect mere buildings, not the vital mission of Medicare cost-savings and government-run health care, you see.)
But surely there will be some price to pay for equating nearly 60 percent of the voting public with “mobs of extremists.” According to a new Qunippiac poll:
In the Quinnipiac survey, 55% (including 54% of the key independent voter bloc) said they were more concerned that the overhaul would increase the deficit than that Congress would not pass some kind of overhaul. That same 57% (and 59% of independents) disagreed with the following statement: “Overhauling the nation’s health care system is so important that it should be enacted even if it means substantially increasing the federal budget deficit.”
The poll also contains another piece of the public opinion puzzle that Mr. Obama and the Democratic congressional leadership may find problematic: Voters by a large margin don’t want a health care overhaul if it can only garner Democratic votes. In other words, even though Democrats control both houses of Congress, voters are suspicious of a bill that only has Democratic support.
The poll found 59% of the public disagreed (and only 36% agreed) with the following statement: Congress should approve a health care overhaul even if only Democrats support it.”
It’s utterly probable that some—even many— of the concerned folks showing up at health-care town halls are the kind of older, white, Middle America Democrats Obama went to great pains to woo. The rows of VFW ballcaps and suspiciously well-dressed protesters bespeak a contingent of Hillary Democrats and even the ballyhooed Obamacans, convinced by Obama’s moderate shtick and now left wondering what they got themselves into. And, if such folks are not in those crowds, they are in the 60 percent of voters who identify with them, as are the all-important Independents.
This is what they think of you. Or as the Democrats call you, “the mob:”
It seems like everyone in the Democratic Administration is having an emotional break-down just by watching people that disagree with their agenda expressing their right to free speech. Their ridiculously flustered response and ridicule is a sign that they are fearful their liberal/progressive/socialist programs will fail. “Angry mobs?” Many people in these so called “mobs” are elderly people! Give me a break!
Poor angry Liberals…..scare tactics and lies are gonna hurt you
If the Liberals think THAT'S a "mob" wait until we fiscal Conservatives (from the entire political spectrum) "storm" the Capitol on 9/12/09!! I'm glad to see that Obama has finally been able to transcend partisan politics and bring Americans back together. ;o)
You better call ahead, because there's only one "Subway" shop near the Capitol, and I don't know that they can handle two dozen orders for Foot-Longs all at once.
Im sure they can diogenes they did it when you libs showed up.
When did "the libs" mount a "mob" convergence on Washington? The inauguration? Do you really want to compare your silly little teabagging to that historic event? DO you really want people to compare those two sets of attendance figures? I wouldn't think you do, but then again, I pride myself on having a thought process VERY different than yours. Mine works.
diogenes Did you live under a ROCK during the Bush years ?? The Libs protested in DC every chance they could get. Go to YouTube and look it up so you can see the protests that took place with your little crowds showing up.
There are ALWAYS protesters yelling about something. (It's actually kind of amusing to walk by the White House and see the eclectic group of nutjobs that hang out there.) But I don't recall a sinificant attempt to do anything a la The Teabaggers, promising massive protests that sem to fizzle out.
The Teabaggers intiially pumped up April 15 as their massive protest day and, when that didn't really materialize, they switched to July 4. And when that didn't really materialized, they switched to September 9. What 's the next fall-back date, when September 9 fizzles out, too? Maybe, rather than putting too much pressure on yourselves too quickly, you should look further down the road a bit. Maybe January 20, 2017, or beyond?
OK, this will probably label me as a racist but so what??? African Americans and the abuses of ACORN voter fraud put Obama in office. Are we Caucasians sorry that he is melting down faster than he is shoving s*** down our throats? NOPE; we are reveling in it an hey diogenes; you'll see it sooner than you want or expect. We are AMERICANS and we are not gonna stop. So I suggest you sit back, take a deep breath and watch us! Obama should be forced out of office with his head hung down in shame; not because he is black but because he sold out his country for a dime, for power and for notoriety. We're not stopping and you are not gonna stop us! Trust me on this.
Yep, you figgered it out just 'bout right, chum! ACORN got Mickey Mouse to vote an extra 10,000,000 times to rig the election for that black guy!
By the way, I'm not black OR a member of ACORN, yet I voted for Barack Obama. Why? Because I have working brain cells, unlike you!
Please continue to make childish "threats" of how you're going to force Obama out of office. You're a powerless putz, flapping your gums and pulling your pud. The only thing you could do is fuel a hot air balloon.
''pulling your pud '' Talk about childish,have working brain cells?flapping your gums ?
Sorry, Miles, I have a low tolerance threshold for racists, even/especially when they announce in advance that they're going to make racist comments. Idiots like "copperhead" don't speak for all Caucasians, escpecially since it's questionable that "copperhead" is even a human being to begiin with.
You don't condone his nonsensical rant, do you, Miles? You don't believe that "true" Americans will force Obama out of office, right?
Regardless of the President's race, if he and the democrat party continue on their current path, he will, most likely be forced out of office, along with many of the far left extremists in congress. You voted for Obama because you have working brain cells? What you mean to say is that you're so naive that you believe most people running for office actually give a damn about their campaign promises. We're not even a quarter of the way into his presidency and he is doing everything the people DON'T want. If you want to live in a socialist country go right ahead. Take your happy ass over to Europe.
You think THIS is anger? You think these little town hall meetings constitute a mob? We the people, the majority of this country, have not yet begun to get angry. The socialists in this country are going to get one hell of a rude awakening.
"If you want to live in a socialist country go right ahead. Take your happy ass over to Europe. "
Some silly libtard is probably going to post something like "LOLZ EUROPE ISNT A COUNTRY LOLZ!!!!" So to clarify, go to Europe, you'll have a pretty wide selection of screwed up places to live.
Diogenes seems to take it for granted that normal people act as hysterically as liberals do.
Ahha.Liberals are so very predictable.They are watching their socialist agenda going down in flames,and angry Americans of all political persuasions letting them know loudly that they want no part of it.And now that they are fast running out of BS to try to feed us,what do they trot out?You guessd it.The race card.Really Dio-tribe.You need to flip the record over.You're not winning any converts with your dust covered,60's rhetoric,you're just fooling yourself into thinking you're still relevant.Once is amusing,hundreds is a bore.
We don't need to win over converts,moron. WE WON! Remember? And you can yak al you want about how this is gonna change, how those angry ultrarightwingnuts are gonna stage a revolution fueld by the blood of tyrants and led by the little pipsqueak with tha handgun in NH. Politically, you are probably the least threatening group of rednecks in recent memory. You can scream and shout down senators who HAVE to act with some decorum, but you have nothing else. Unfortunately, rednecks like some of the mob around here make racism still an issue.
Seems like you're the one screaming racism all the time.
Take a look at what "copperhead"started, and then come back to me with a claim that I injected racism into this discussion.