Its been about two weeks now since the town hall meetings on health care reform (health insurance reform or whatever they call it today) started to remind people that they can do something to help shape policy change in between election cycles. Everyday citizens, most of which have never been involved in any form of protest, took to these forums to have their voices heard and questions answered. What they were greeted with was nothing short of utter contempt by some in the news media, congress, senate, and the President himself. They accused us of AstroTurfing, said they we carried swastikas to the meetings and that we were Un-American. The only things I have seen that are unwarranted was Rep. Frank Kratovil hung in effigy and the earlier mentioned supposed swastika carriers. Now I don’t condone outrageous behavior from either side but I do think the left has no standing in getting that upset over it considering all the atrocious and wanton protests that occurred during George W. Bush’s administration. Protests that were actually vicious but were glossed over by the MSM and given a happy face. Do they really want to go tit for tat because they would do so at their own peril.
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I can’t remember in my short 31 years on this planet of ever having read or heard about a POTUS referring to regular people who have had honest disagreements with them as “angry mobs.” I am just a concerned citizen who didn’t like the out of control government spending started by George W. Bush and increased one thousand fold with Barack Obama. I got involved with my local Tea Party group under my own volition and I met other regular people who did’nt like the out of control spending and failure of our elected officials to listen to our concerns. These people, just like me, are simply just regular folks who are concerned about the path our country is headed down. Most of us have never protested before, been to a rally or joined a march. We aren’t racists or bitter because we lost the election. Our anger is not manufactured or funded by high end concerns. Finally we are a real grassroots movement not an Astroturf brigade with pre-made protest signs, group t-shirts, hats, pins, buttons and chants.
Obama keeps spitting out that 47 Million American are uninsured, but if you start to examine those numbers you begin to realize that some of them voluntarily declined insurance and some aren’t even Americans at all.
Obama: This Is Not About Me.
Jul 22
Last friday South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim Demint said that if Obama’s healthcare overhaul takeover fails, it could be his Waterloo. Well Obama fired back by saying, among other things, “This isn’t about me”. Well it seems that despite what the president is saying in public, he might be more worried than he is letting on and that this really is, all about him.
A telling episode recounted by Senate Finance ranking member Charles Grassley reveals the Obama administration might be more worried than they are letting on that a Republican senator’s comparison of the healthcare overhaul to Waterloo might be dangerously close to the truth.
Grassley said he spoke with a Democratic House member last week who shared Obama’s bleak reaction during a private meeting to reports that some factions of House Democrats were lining up to stall or even take down the overhaul unless leaders made major changes.
“Let’s just lay everything on the table,” Grassley said. “A Democrat congressman last week told me after a conversation with the president that the president had trouble in the House of Representatives, and it wasn’t going to pass if there weren’t some changes made … and the president says, ‘You’re going to destroy my presidency.’ ”
The White House did not respond to requests for comment.
Health rations and you
Jul 17
DOCTORS:
1. The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000.
2. Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000.
3. Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171.
(Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of Health Human Services).
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