The Un-American, Nazi, Brooks Brothers-Wearing Mob

It’s bad enough Linda Douglass told me I’m too stupid to watch Obama say he favors a single-payer health care system without coming to the conclusion that he does.  It’s a shame that Macon Phillips (same link as above) asked the True Believers to snitch on mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, the lady across the street and whomever else may not yet have consumed the health care kool-aid.  It’s pitiful that those who hold heartfelt opposition to the government’s unconstitutional grab at 16% of the economy are “organized by special interests” and “wear Brooks Brothers’ suits.”  (Aw, gee, now I have to go buy a new wardrobe so I can  dress the part.)  It was worse still that Nancy Pelosi demonized opponents by inferring they are Nazis.  But now the party that insisted that opposition to the Bush Administration was a patriotic duty is equally convinced that opposition to Obama’s health care scheme is subversive.

Today, Nan (Call me Senator) Pelosi and Steny Hoyer penned an editorial dutifully carried by USA Today claiming that failure to sit quietly and let Democratic lawmakers lie and obfuscate is downright un-American.  Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum wrote:

…it is now evident that an ugly campaign is underway not merely to misrepresent the health insurance reform legislation, but to disrupt public meetings and prevent members of Congress and constituents from conducting a civil dialogue. These tactics have included hanging in effigy one Democratic member of Congress in Maryland and protesters holding a sign displaying a tombstone with the name of another congressman in Texas, where protesters also shouted “Just say no!” drowning out those who wanted to hold a substantive discussion.  [...]  These disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differing views — but of the facts themselves. Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American. Drowning out the facts is how we failed at this task for decades.

Talk about presumptuousness!  Remain seated.  Be quiet.  Let the lawmaker spout his or her talking points.  Don’t correct an untruth.  Don’t drown out OUR facts.  Heaven forbid should you have your own views and want them to be heard.  And note that this egalitarian “opponents have no say” mindset comes right from the top.   Spoke His Uberallessness, Barack Obama, “I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking.  I want them to get out of the way…”   I ran that quote through my handy-dandy liberal-speak translator and got the following:  “If you oppose my plan,  shut the hell up.”

But, hey, a public repudiation of Obama’s mouthpieces isn’t likely, anyway.  The Dems have changed tactics.  No more open town hall meetings — they’re going to be screened to ensure that only sycophants are in attendance.  And should unbeliever sneak in the meetings will be closely watched by a substantial number of unionized hall monitors.  Those of us who may have had designs on expressing opposition saw in Tampa and St. Louis what happens those who fail to toe the line.  (For more on the SEIU member who actually perpetrated the smack-down in St. Louis, read this at The American Thinker.)  And Congressmen who aren’t positive they can stack the town hall deck are now choosing to have “call-in” forums where they can pre-screen questions.  So much for “healthy debate.”

Oh, by the way…Sten and Nan’s great editorial adventure included these gems (with my corrections in italics):

• Reform will mean affordable coverage for all Americans…     The CBO estimates 36 million will remain uninsured in 2017.

• Our plan’s cost-lowering measures include a public health insurance option to bring competitive pressure to bear on rapidly consolidating private insurers.     “Competitive pressure” means private insurers are on their own while competing against a taxpayer-subsidized public option.  Sounds fair.

• Reform will also mean higher-quality care by promoting preventive care so health problems can be addressed before they become crises. This, too, will save money.     The CBO also concluded that preventive care will cost government money, not save it.

• We’ll be a much healthier country if all patients can receive regular checkups and tests, such as mammograms and diabetes exams, without paying a dime out-of-pocket.     No one will pay a dime out-of-pocket?  Tell that to those who will pay the health care surcharge. Or those who’s current benefits may soon be taxable.
  

• Now — with Americans strongly supporting health insurance reform, with Congress reaching consensus on a plan, and with a president who ran and won on this specific promise of change — America is closer than ever to this century-deferred goal.      Fully 57% of Americans oppose this initiative. How dare they claim American strongly support it?  Oh, they didn’t.  They merely said Americans support “reform.”  That wasn’t the slightest bit “misleading,” was it?

Now THAT was a fishy piece of disinformation that definitely should be sent to flag@whitehouse.gov.

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