Posted on 08/12/2009 5:48:11 PM PDT by markomalley
Recycling is so popular that even our congressmen, unaccustomed as they are to practicing what they preach, do it. They're reaching back into the dark past to recycle contempt. Never waste a crisis, even if you have to manufacture the crisis.
Democrats from the cosseted life in the House and Senate, accustomed to getting the deference at home so often denied in Washington, are suddenly having to deal with inconvenient old folks at home. President Obama insists that the War on Terror is over, ended by his ultimate weapon, the Apology Bomb. But to listen to delicate congressmen whose feelings are hurt, al Qaeda has merely moved terror operations to their congressional districts.
Angry lynch mobs (to hear House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her sidekick Steny Hoyer tell it) of elderly gents on walking sticks and little blue-haired ladies in their 80s have descended on congressmen at town meetings across the country - in California, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Maryland, Ohio, Georgia and other places. They're taking out their anger and frustration at the Obama health care "reform" in the robust American way, but Mrs. Pelosi professes to see "reform" adrift on a turbulent sea of Nazi swastikas. Rep. Brian Baird of Washington sees a blur of Brown Shirts. Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas calls the dissenters "un-American." She later remembered where she was and said she didn't mean to call them that. Her contempt for Arkansas folks just popped out. In Georgia, Rep. David Scott tried to calm a town meeting with a plea to "calm down and take a deep breath," then took a deep breath and scolded everyone with a hysterical screed about the "hijacking" of his meeting.
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If Congress really wanted to have these dog and pony shows without actually HEARING from any real people, it should have just put them on TV.
Being Liberal means never having to say "You're right"
(with apologies to "Love Story"...
Great line!
We need to start recalls for all our senators and representatives in all 50 states, we need to hold them to their job description REPRESENTING us. We need to scare the brown stuff out of them.
There is a scene in the Broadway play “The Producers” in which about 20 old ladies with walkers do a number. I have an image of an old people’s million-man march in Washington, with canes and wheelchairs and walkers, - people shaking their canes and waving their walkers, and shouting “hands off my medicare” or “Obama lied, gran’ma died.”
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