Pelosi Rails Against Real Activists
Speaker Pelosi didn’t hide her anger with the activists that have disrupted the Democrats’ townhall meetings in this post:
During the August district work period, Democrats are meeting with their constituents about the health insurance reform and America’s Affordable Health Choices Act. Unfortunately, those not interested in health insurance reform are disrupting public meetings and not allowing concerned constituents to ask questions and express their views. Many of these opponents who are shutting down civil discussion are organized by out-of-district, extremist political groups, and industry-supported lobbying firms.
While there’s some proof that organized groups are sending out instructions, the videos show that the protesters are simply angry that representatives and senators listen to President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Sen. Reid more than they listen to their constituents. Simply put, constituents have let it be known, by a pretty wide margin, that they want less sweeping change than the Democrats are proposing.
That hasn’t stopped Democrats from marching toward the ruination of the current health care system. Kathleen Sebelius first looked shocked at the anger that activists were expressing, then looked annoyed with their protests when she appeared with Sen. Specter.
By the way, Sen. Specter said that they have to make decisions quick because they’ve got so many things on their plate. That’s a worthless excuse for being irresponsible. To the best of my knowledge, constituents don’t have a gun to the Democrats’ heads demanding immediate action. In fact, it sounds more like the people are demanding that the politicians slow down and get this right the first time.
I’m confident that the Democrats’ attempt to villainize the insurance companies and angry constituents will backfire. BADLY. Most of the people at these events are genuinely upset. Having Democrats say that their angst and their worries are artificial will only upset people more.
It’s never a smart idea to insult people who might’ve voted and contributed to the Democrats’ campaigns. That’s what the Democrats are doing. They’re villainizing people who’ve voted for their freshmen and sophomores. How stupid is that?
You’ve seen the videos. You’ve seen the people asking tough questions of their elected officials. You’ve even heard the passion in their voices. That’s what participatory democracies are about.
I’ll do my best to make sure that these angry mobsters will be reminded what Democrats said about them this summer. But I can’t do it myself. What we need is an angry mob of MOBsters reminding people too.
Technorati Tags: Angry Mobs, DNC, President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, Harry Reid, Democrats, Grassroots, Activism, Election 2010
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
August 6th, 2009 at 4:56 am
Speaking of being organized and from “out-of-district”, where was her (or Sebelius’ or any other donk’s) outrage about busing union members in for “townhall” meetings during the campaign? Or poor folk/homeless? And giving them the questions to ask, to boot?
Seems to me, now that they’ve got a “tried and true” method they themselves created and perfected, their outrage is just a tad phony.
Or maybe their outrage is that they’ve lost control of what used to be a safe forum for themselves?
August 6th, 2009 at 8:43 am
Well, they getting some flack for a change; people arent being compliant liker they are suppose to in their minds, and they dont like it.
You have to understand, the leadership of the left are elitists, they think they are smarter than youy, know better than you, and that means you are supposed to just accept what they want to do with you unquestionably. They have forgotten, or hope you have forgotten what the Declaration of Independence stands for, and it influences the way Americans, real Americans, react to over reaching politicians.
What they dont know, or care to know, is that attacking real Americans will arouse them out of their apathy. They started this with their arrogance and unwillingness to discuss the isssue. (Obama wants it yesterday - end of discussion!) WRONG!
Thats not how Americans do things, never has, never will be.
August 6th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
“That’s a worthless excuse for being irresponsible.”
And Specter is a worthless excuse for being an irresponsible senator, too. As are most of the jackasses in Congress and quite a number of Republicrats.