SHOUT OUT: Dan Thompson, 51, of Canton, Mich., center, speaks out against the healthcare overhaul at Rep. John D. Dingell's town hall meeting in Romulus.
Posted on 08/10/2009 5:57:37 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, insisting at the start of a long and politically heated summer congressional recess that healthcare reform can be achieved this fall, today are calling the disruption of "town-hall'' meetings by vocal protesters "simply un-American.''
"We believe it is healthy for such a historic effort to be subject to so much scrutiny and debate,'' Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Hoyer (D-Md.) write in an Op-ed essay published by USA Today. "However, it is now evident that an ugly campaign is underway not merely to misrepresent the health insurance reform legislation, but to disrupt public meetings and prevent members of Congress and constituents from conducting a civil dialogue,'' the two leaders write. "These disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differing views -- but of the facts themselves. Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American.''
They point to a series of protests at congressional district hearings held by members of Congress this summer, including one where the likeness of a congressman in Maryland was hanged in effigy, one displaying the tombstone of a congressman in Texas and meetings where protesters have shouted down opponents with "Just say no.''
With Democrats accusing Republicans of orchestrating dramatic protests against the healthcare reform that President Obama and Democratic allies in Congress are promoting, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell suggests that Democrats should be worried.
"Look, I don't think either side ought to be trying to engage in disrupting meetings, either the Democratic side or the Republican side,'' McConnell (R-Ky..) said Sunday in an appearance on FOX News Sunday.
But "to demonize citizens who are -- you know, who are energetic about this -- strikes me as demonstrating a kind of weakness in your position,'' McConnell said. "In other words, you want to… change the subject…..
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SHOUT OUT: Dan Thompson, 51, of Canton, Mich., center, speaks out against the healthcare overhaul at Rep. John D. Dingell's town hall meeting in Romulus.
They are really scared of disruptions - to their power.
If Pelosi and Hoyer want to see “un-American”, they should look in a mirror.
Why would we want such delusional people to take over health care?
People will die uneccessarily and you know they will just deny it.
Hey Dems: Remember the thousands of “DISSENT IS PATRIOTIC” bumper stickers you drove around with during the Bush years?
Remember Hillary! and her famous rant, “I am sick and tired of being told that challenging this Administration is unpatriotic!”??
These people suck. They are scum and they are evil. And no rules apply to THEM. Grrrrr!
Now the big crime in life is
“disrupting a meeting”. Or daring to talk over a leftist politician.
I am so proud of those attending the town meetings I could cry. I know personally of cancer survivors and their families attending in a blue state and making their fear and anger known.
Are the T-shirt and cap part of the new Brooks Brothers collection. Seems to be a departure for them. Oh well, fashion is always changing.
Why do I feel like I’m living a chapter from “Atlas Shrugged”?
The Democratic response to this man’s objections: SHUT UP.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWHgUE9AD4s
The Dims always accuse anyone opposed to their agenda of crimes they themselves commit.
What could be more American than ‘publicly’ protesting national issues?
I guess the 1/3 of the Americans who believed we should be free from British rule, were Un-American.
I guess the 28% who believed in freeing slaves were Un-American.
I guess not paying 70% in taxes and opposed to a tyrannical government is Un-American!
Some one has to shut this Bit@ch up!
Bush never called ANY American “unamerican”. How can an American attending a town hall meeting be “unamerican” except in the mind of a left wing politician?
Beware the left, they WILL deny you health care for being “unamerican”. While they give it to foreigners who are here illegally.
Some PAC needs to run that Hillary snippet over and over and over...and every other example we can thrown in their faces.
Hypocrisy reigns. But most Americans aren’t stupid and want leaders who are fair and realize dissent is patriotic without that shrew having to tell them. The more Pelosi and her minions act like whiny spoiled brats the more regular people will come to despise them.
Liberals believe in free speech - for themselves.
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