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Aug 28, 2010, Washington DC
By Seth Swirsky
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In response to the outrage at the Leftist Congress that has been voiced by ordinary Americans in Town Hall events around the country, the Democrats have opted – typically – not to address the peoples’ concerns, but rather to demonize those who get in their way.
Rather than admitting there’s something wrong with passing our country’s nation-altering healthcare legislation without having even read the bill, the Left, once again, is engaging in the “There’s Something the Matter with Kansas” meme, and that it is the people — not the far-left Democrats — who have something the matter with them!
The most frequently heard slander about the people who are attending the Town Hall meetings in unprecedented numbers is that they are “angry” – as if their anger is somehow proof that their arguments aren’t legitimate.
But “the people” have plenty to be angry about:
Eight months ago, the fledgling Obama administration told us we had to spend $787 billion dollars immediately or we’d go into a depression as deep as that of the 1930s. The Democrats used their majority to rush into law the president’s request, although not one member of Congress had even read the bill. Clearly, the urgency was bogus, as the president went golfing that very weekend and didn’t sign the bill until the middle of the following week. We all now know what 217 out of 220 Republican’s in Congress knew then, which was that it was a bad bill and bound for failure. And guess what? It failed! To this day, not one single American taxpayer knows where that money has gone, outside of payments to ACORN and Hamas.
It’s no wonder people are angry!
A similar ploy is now being used to ram Healthcare legislation through Congress – again, unread! On July 16, the Congressional Budget Office, the non-partisan arbiter for a piece of legislation’s affordability, issued a report saying that the healthcare plan making its way through Congress would only add to the deficit and effectively put BIG government between the patient and his or her healthcare provider.
Yet, the plan marches forward with another Obama-imposed artificial deadlline only two weeks after the Congress returns to session on September 15. This power-play by the administration is planned despite the fact that every poll shows the American people are dead-set against the Democrats’ plan to take control of another 1/6th of the American economy.
It’s no wonder people are angry!
Yet another of the president’s trillion-dollar schemes –- cap and tax – emerges and proves empirically to be an ill-conceived “plan” based on unproven scientific theories that would all but guarantee that China or India (who don’t subscribe to Al Gore’s, business-killing junk-science) will overtake the United States as the world’s greatest economic superpower, with all of the security consequences this guarantees.
It’s no wonder people are angry!
When the American people cannot find a television channel – save one –that doesn’t willingly support and abet President Obama’s clear, leftist agenda — an agenda that should send chills down one’s spine not up their leg — you wonder why they’re angry!
As if all the above were not reasons enough for the legitimate anger of concerned Americans across the land, consider the way the president hopscotches the globe apologizing for his own country while hundreds of thousands of our troops are on the frontlines fighting and dying for it!
While the president treats our long-trusted, staunch allies like Great Britain and Israel shabbily (to say the least) – one got 25 DVD’s as a gift and the other got told where it’s citizens can live! – he warmly embraces Socialist thugs like Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega, Bolivia’s Evo Morales, and then bows obsequiously at the waist to the Saudi King.
It’s no wonder people are angry!
And when the president – who admitted not knowing the facts — engages in the racial stereotyping and racial animus that he promised he was above and slanders America’s finest law-enforcement officers by attacking the members of the Cambridge Police Department…
It’s truly no wonder why the people are angry!
When the White House’s official website asks that citizens’s turn in fellow citizen’s email addresses if “misinformation” (which is anything that disagrees with the liberal view) about healthcare is spread, then all Americans have both the right and the responsibility to be angry!
Seth Swirsky is a singer-songwriter. His site is Seth.com.
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5 responses so far ↓
1 R U Serious // Aug 7, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Much to the dismay of the right, all evidence indicates that the stimulus plan is working. Obviously there is more to do but no one (who is rational anyway) expected a miracle in just a few months.
The astro-turfers who disrupt town hall meetings are frauds who are detracting from normal citizens having a discussion about what needs to be done about health care.
2 howardroarke // Aug 7, 2009 at 5:53 pm
I wasn’t aware the SEIU and ACORN are “normal citizens”.
Thanks for the clarification.
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How could the “stimulus plan” be “working”. Please include “evidence” and links.
3 rochester_veteran // Aug 8, 2009 at 9:07 am
Well over 500 people showed up at Eric Massa’s (NY 29th) town hall meeting at Honeoye Falls and the vast majority of the crowd, by a show of hands, were against the Obamacare plan. My friend and fellow Rochester Tea Party organizer, Erik Anderson, was there and here’s his account of Massa’s town hall meeting:
Erik Anderson wrote:
Last night Eric Massa spoke to and fielded questions from a large crowd. I think it is appropriate to pass on my observations.
First- there were people there that appeared to be plants who supported the bill.
Second- he made it clear that if he had a choice he would favor single payer.
Third- he actually answered very few questions but rather talked around answers
The clear message was that this was an event to tell us what we should want rather than an honest attempt to listen to his constituents. Oh, he appeared to listen and allowed us to ask questions but it was clear that an attempt was made to create the illusion of balance by cherry picking questioners. When a show of hands went up (requested by someone in the audience) showing that the majority of the attendees did not like the bill and the federal takeover of our medical system there was no acknowledgment of the lopsidedness of the hand vote. Clearly that was inconsistent with his message.
Don’t miss your chance to be counted, the 26th at Perinton Town Hall, with luck the weather will be nice again and we can use the shell.
I take offense to you calling us frauds, R U Serious! We’re regular working (or retired) people and not part of an “astroturf” effort. The Republicans are not funding us, it’s coming out of our own pockets. If anything, most of the people that I’ve met at the Tea Parties here in Rochester and at the March On Albany are independent of any political party and purposely avoiding affiliation with the Republicans as well as the Democrats because they both have failed us. All across the country, regular folks are coming out in droves in opposition to Obamacare, the Porkulus Package and the radical socialist direction that the Obama Administration is trying to steer our country into.
We don’t want Obama’s “hopey changey” and will hit the streets if necessary to prevent it from happening!
4 howardroarke // Aug 8, 2009 at 1:29 pm
I see Mafffei is doing the same other congresscritters are doing-having a phone-in, phone-y “town hall”, so he doesn’t have to face his constituents.
What’s sad is the minority who support this garbage are the ones who are getting the most press, whereas the majority of Americans do not want any “public option”. Tell me, Lefties, why is the meme now being called “Health Insurance Reform”? Oh, that’s right, go after the “evil” insurance companies and HMO’s. So, Obama and his dispatch their SEIU thugs to rough up some folks at these town halls, the SEIU roll out misleading and silly commercials (which no doubt appeal to the kool-aid drinkers and racists on the Left), etc., etc., etc. Pathetic, but not unbecoming a Chicago thug like Rahm Emanuel.
5 rochester_veteran // Aug 8, 2009 at 5:39 pm
howardroarke,
Oh, that’s right, go after the “evil” insurance companies and HMO’s. So, Obama and his dispatch their SEIU thugs to rough up some folks at these town halls, the SEIU roll out misleading and silly commercials (which no doubt appeal to the kool-aid drinkers and racists on the Left), etc., etc., etc. Pathetic, but not unbecoming a Chicago thug like Rahm Emanuel.
My friend, Dan Maloney has an interesting post on SEIU paying illegal aliens to be plants at the Obamacare town hall meetings:
SEIU hires Illegal Aliens to do the Astroturfing Real Americans Won’t
Any “astroturfing” that’s being done is coming from the lefties via Axelrod. Remember the supposed “neighborhood kids praise to the Great Obama” video? That’s the type of “astroturf” job that Axelrod’s firm specializes in.
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