Spinning Like a Top
In recent days, the Obama administration, the DNC and Speaker Pelosi have tried painting rowdy townhall participants as myth-tellers, angry mobs and Nazis. Their most recent tactic has been to start wondering aloud about President Obama’s safety. This spin shouldn’t be taken seriously.
While officials told ABC News that the President’s daily threat matrix has yet to reflect a sharp increase in threats, White House officials privately admit deep concern and have told the Secret Service to keep security tight, even if Obama objects.
“I think the president has, in effect, triggered fears amongst fairly large numbers of white people in this country that they are somehow losing their country, that the battle is lost,” Potok told ABC News. “The nation that their Christian white forefathers created has somehow been taken from them.”
Regrettably, it’s a fact that every president has received death threats. I won’t dispute that. Still, this administration’s attempt to blame Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity for these death threats isn’t persuasive.
I’d also ask why ABC News didn’t blame Chris Matthews, Cindy Sheehan and Air America for the times when protesters hung President Bush in effigy. Their anti-Bush diatribes were more vitriolic and more widespread than what we’re seeing now. The difference is that the idiots that are talking about directing violence at President Obama would be immediately rejected by Republicans. That type of behavior simply isn’t acceptable. PERIOD. Matthews, David Shuster, Sheehan, Keith Olbermann and others comprise the heart of the Democratic Party’s lunatic fringe base.
This is the 21st Century equivalent of President Clinton’s nuts or sluts tactic for dealing with the endless stream of scandals he created. Guys who opposed President Clinton were characterized as nuts. Women who opposed President Clinton got characterized as sluts and trailerpark trash.
The thing we can’t lose sight of is the fact that there is video of President Obama admitting that he prefers a single-payer system. Another thing we shouldn’t lose sight of are the provisions in H.R. 3200. Still another thing that we shouldn’t lose sight of is the removal of the end-of-life provision that the Obama administration says wasn’t in the bill in the first place:
Key senators are excluding a provision on end-of-life care from health overhaul legislation after language in a House bill caused a furor. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, said in a statement Thursday that the provision had been dropped from consideration because it could be misinterpreted or implemented incorrectly.
A health care bill passed by three House committees allows Medicare to reimburse doctors for voluntary counseling sessions about end-of-life decisions. But critics have claimed the provision could lead to death panels and euthanasia for seniors. The Senate Finance Committee is still working to complete a bill.
I can’t wait to hear Robert Gibbs and David Axelrod explain how the provision that they said didn’t exist was dropped from the Baucus bill. Should we attribute that to this administration’s not knowing what’s in the bills or should that be attributed to their perpetual dishonesty?
Either way, this administration’s credibility is shrinking fast. Once a politician loses that, it’s essentially over.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
August 16th, 2009 at 2:50 am
Who would harm the president with Joe Biden next in line? Joe’s good insurance.
August 16th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
Thats why a lot of us were hoping nothing happened to Bill Clinton.