He Did It Again
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010During his commencement address at the University of Michigan, President Obama just couldn’t resist telling this whopper:
President Barack Obama took aim Saturday at the angry rhetoric of those who denigrate government as “inherently bad” and said their off-base line of attack ignores the fact that in a democracy, “government is us.”
To be fair, in most years, the government is supposed to be us. This year more than any other, the government is definitely anti-us. Repeatedly, Americans told DC’s Democrats to shut it down on health care. Last August, America attended townhall meeting to tell Democrats to shut it down. They didn’t listen. In November, voters told President Obama to shut the health care debate down by defeating Jon Corzine and Creigh Deeds in New Jersey’s and Virginia’s gubernatorial elections. He didn’t listen; he had a legacy to build.
In January, Massachusetts voters sent the strongest, loudest message yet that they wanted the health care debate stopped by electing Scott Brown to Ted Kennedy’s seat. Speaker Pelosi couldn’t be bothered with what We The People said. She rammed the bill through over the persistent, passionate protests of We The People.
That’s why I can’t let sit President Obama’s statement slide that the government is us. This November, we’ll give the Democrats a lesson in paying a political price for ignoring We The People.
Predictably, President Obama constructed a straw man argument: (more…)