You almost have to feel sorry for the progressives, this was all supposed to be so easy for them. Last year, they got the candidate they wanted, a guy so far left that he bumps into Fidel Castro any time he moves to the right. He easily dispatches the most formidable candidate in the primaries. Then the GOP hands him a candidate who wimped out and did everything but hide in Aruba during the general election. To make things run smoother than chocolate through a Rottweiler, the economy tanked before the general election under a Republican president’s watch. By then it was more of a cake walk than an election.
The scenario that danced around in the heads of the progressives went like this: we’ve got the president we want, a Senate leader who is wholly incapable of original thought and will obey like a whipped dog and a House Speaker from San Francisco, for Marx’s sake, to implement our agenda. This should be done in an hour or so.
What they are getting, thankfully, is a painful lesson about the difficulties of turning ill-conceived cotton candy rhetoric into something substantive.
So they’re acting out.
And lying almost non-stop.
They are lying about the true nature of health care reform. It’s a bridge to the single-payer system that President Obama has wanted all along. Which he is now lying about. I’m not speculating, I’m listening to a prominent Democratic senator.
They are most certainly lying about welcoming debate on health care. It’s not possible to ram complex legislation through Congress to meet an unrealistically quick deadline and have a substantive debate about it at the same time.
The evidence that any opposing opinions aren’t welcome is overwhelming. It’s not a debate if your party hierarchy immediately dismisses any contrary viewpoint or, worse yet, implores you to pass them along to the KGB White House for closer inspection by the feds.
The most “Through The Looking Glass” aspect of this panicked abandonment of veracity has been the characterization of protesters at the health care town hall meetings as being phony plants who are well-funded by the health care industry when, in fact, that’s a better description of some people on your side of the aisle.
The progressive left is trying to disparage the protesters on the right by accusing them of acting like…the progressive left.
The American Left in its present state wouldn’t understand a grassroots effort even if it was explained in simple pictures on the back a of a fabulous sleeveless Michelle Obama top. Their efforts start with the White House’s massive database from the last election and proceed from there. They have real organizations with actual names that orchestrate getting people to public events and protests. All they can come up with when accusing health care protesters is lame crap like “the Republican right”.
So it is they who are really the well-funded, hyper-organized top-down super hyphenated group that can be mobilized in a heartbeat. The vitriol they inject into any suggestions that people on the right are like this makes one think that some self-loathing issues are being worked out. It’s difficult to fancy yourself a modern day hippie engaged in a great struggle when George Soros farts out another check every time you say you need something, after all.
Nothing is perfect and that definitely applies to the current state of health care. So let’s have that debate, Mr. President.
But let’s try to push an honesty agenda through Congress and your administration first.
Like the posting here, and it is a shame we are so divided here, but not equally. The entire nation is gaining motion here and will not be willing to listen to any more crazy ideas from this new government.
it’s their, not they’re.
please learn proper English
Alas, the worst part about it is that these noisy townhalls are (Hello? Knock, knock) mostly DEMOCRAT events, with democrat voters voicing their concerns.
So the dems are now not only waging a bitter war of insults and invective against the American people in general but also against their own electorate.
Not a winning strategy. Nope. Nossir.
Hahha! Nice writeup! As far as “I won” Obama and his liberal sychophants go – “you can have a whole room full of mouse turds, but they’re still going to be mouse turds.” If Middle America thinks you just gamed them with a smooth talking punk that lies, you are now about to get one planted on your keister that will “unseat” you. Say hello to 2010, fools.
When Peggy Noonan starts advising the libs to back off, you know there’s trouble in paradise. I’d be willing to get clocked by a union goon if it’d cause the scales to fall from more sets of eyes. Okay — it’d have to be a small, wimpy union goon. With a limp. http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html
joseph aucoin: Your admonishment over a simple spelling error lost a lot of oomph when you abandoned punctuation. If you are going to feign intellectual superiority you should at least brush up on the first grade writing skills.
The whole thing is so stupid.
Where are the Conservative’s demands to:
1) End Medicare (nothing but a government run health care system).
2) End Medicaid (see point 1).
3) End Prescription assistance for hold people (see point 1).
4) End reimbursement for Hospitals if someone shows up at the emergency room who can’t pay – wheel the injured kid out and dump him or her on the sidewalk if the parents can’t pay.
We have to END this system of GOVERNMENT SPONSORED HEALTHCARE COMPLETELY – or it will ONLY grow!!!
Come on all of you wanna-be Conservative-Free Marketers it is time to stand up and be counted and DEMAND FULL CHANGE – not this BS that these nuts at the Town Halls are yelling about.
Okay, so I blogged the importance of refuting the extreme right’s message. http://hollycairns.com/?p=189
That’s an in general refute to your usual MO, perhaps, unless you aren’t that extreme. I still can’t figure you out, exactly. You’re friends with Chad T and still you seem to be levelheaded. Birds of a feather?
Specifics from your post: Reid is hardworking and can think for himself. Pelosi is a strong woman and does what she thinks is right. Both of these two have their peers behind them.
I don’t know who the “progressives” are and so I cannot refute anything about them or what they do.
The American left consists of many thoughtful, grassroots activists. I consider myself one. Let’s see, IMO, at the heart of this is door knocking to get the candidate’s name and contact information into the hands of the constituent. Community action, community volunteerism… identifying activists and using them appropriately, etc. combined with setting the agenda based on local concern.
Right now I think there are a few big money lobbyists behind the anti-health care reform movement… in effect, to our detriment, astroturfing to get what they want (more money out of us while offering the least in care). They use the right instead of the left, it would appear.
Okay, so I blogged the importance of refuting the extreme right’s message. hollycairns dot com (Obama… Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness
That’s an in general refute to your usual MO, perhaps, unless you aren’t that extreme. I still can’t figure you out, exactly. You’re friends with Chad T and still you seem to be levelheaded. Birds of a feather?
Specifics from your post: Reid is hardworking and can think for himself. Pelosi is a strong woman and does what she thinks is right. Both of these two have their peers behind them.
I don’t know who the “progressives” are and so I cannot refute anything about them or what they do.
The American left consists of many thoughtful, grassroots activists. I consider myself one. Let’s see, IMO, at the heart of this is door knocking to get the candidate’s name and contact information into the hands of the constituent. Community action, community volunteerism… identifying activists and using them appropriately, etc. combined with setting the agenda based on local concern.
Right now I think there are a few big money lobbyists behind the anti-health care reform movement… in effect, to our detriment, astroturfing to get what they want (more money out of us while offering the least in care). They use the right instead of the left, it would appear.
Great post! I’ll be stopping by more often.