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Rep. G.K. Butterfield (Dem, NC-1) Exits Early From Health Forum [Williamston, NC]
Chowan River Patriot ^ | August 9, 2009 | Bob Steinburg

Posted on 08/10/2009 6:24:14 AM PDT by Constitution Day

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I have excerpted Mr. Steinburg's column because it is rather long. It is, however, both excellent and infuriating.

I encourage you to read the full column at the following blog, which I have no connection with:

A Conservative Viewpoint: Butterfield Exits Early From Health Forum

Another account (by that blog's owner) is here:
G.K. Butterfield Spoke To Small Business Owners At Williamston Chamber

1 posted on 08/10/2009 6:24:14 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: MitchellC

NC ping, please...


2 posted on 08/10/2009 6:27:46 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Constitution Day
"Interestingly, I asked one of the deputies afterwards why he was asked to enter and stand at the front. He replied, “I really don’t know. All I saw and heard were people exercising their first amendment rights to free speech and assembly. I just did what I was told.”

3 posted on 08/10/2009 6:30:19 AM PDT by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

Shut UP! You are Un-American. /s


4 posted on 08/10/2009 6:32:47 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: Constitution Day

Frankly, I expect this to be the forum taken by many of the cowardly Dems afraid to address the DeathCare issue. I’ve read of at least one who wants his constituents to schedule appointments with him in his office - obviously to avoid having a crowd.

These people are cowards at their core and we need to not allow their “hired hands” (e,g, police, sheriff’s deputies) to intimidate us. They may have guns and tasers, but there are MORE of us. If we force them to use force to deny us our 1st Amendment rights, we expose them for the cowards they are and for being unwilling to hear from the people who own the government and provide them with employment.

In addition, there are at least 2 articles that I have seen with Obama administration sock puppets encouraging DeathCare supporters to use violence against the “protesters”. This is not America, this is America in revolt.


5 posted on 08/10/2009 6:35:40 AM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: Kartographer; Vendome

Should I turn myself in for posting this?


6 posted on 08/10/2009 6:53:51 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Tax-chick

Bttt, read after library trip.


7 posted on 08/10/2009 7:01:09 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Good intentions mean nothing. Incentives and constraints mean everything.)
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To: Constitution Day

You did post, stupidly.

“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” – Barack Obama (Wall Street Journal)

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/06/14/obama-if-they-bring-a-knife-to-the-fight-we-bring-a-gun/


8 posted on 08/10/2009 7:14:08 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: Constitution Day

The opposition is growing by the hour.


9 posted on 08/10/2009 7:15:54 AM PDT by Brugmansian
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To: Tax-chick

:)


10 posted on 08/10/2009 7:17:49 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Vendome

11 posted on 08/10/2009 7:39:31 AM PDT by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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To: Brugmansian

Oh yes. I am loving it.


12 posted on 08/10/2009 7:40:02 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Vendome

Ah well.

I may go down or be silenced, but it won’t be without a fight.


13 posted on 08/10/2009 7:40:45 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Constitution Day

BUMP!


14 posted on 08/10/2009 7:51:30 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

Thank you! This was an excellent article, IMO.

(and no, I am not Mr. Steinburg. LOL)


15 posted on 08/10/2009 7:52:36 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: nnn0jeh

ping


16 posted on 08/10/2009 7:56:41 AM PDT by kalee (01/20/13 The end of an error.... Obama even worse than Carter.)
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To: Constitution Day

Good article. As I said over on the NC forum, the Democrats don’t want any debate. They just want everyone to nod and comply.

Sorry, guys, but this isn’t Cuba, YET!


17 posted on 08/10/2009 7:57:35 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Good intentions mean nothing. Incentives and constraints mean everything.)
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To: Constitution Day
Damn Straight! I have about enough of this.

These assholes only represent the Non Taxpayers.

The only people who want this are the very people who do not pay into the Federal Tax system.

How is it that their voice is louder than ours?

How is it that the rest of us are going to be forced to take the government plan, which in it various mandates will result in death by eugenics.

This piece of crap is more aptly call Eugenicare.

18 posted on 08/10/2009 8:20:14 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: Kartographer

These guys are only used to seeing the ones that voted for them.

These guys are used to seeing the Non Taxpayer, who each year, has no obligation to the Federal system and many times they actually get a check back.

That check comes from the rest of us who pay into the system each year.

The fact is, however, they represent all constituents in their district and since their vote affects all Americans by extension they represent all of America.

Keep the heat on them and let them know they have gone to far.

When in the course of human events.....


19 posted on 08/10/2009 8:25:36 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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These assholes only represent the Non Taxpayers.

EXACTLY!

"In his opening remarks, Butterfield admitted that his congressional district is the fourth poorest in the nation, with the highest unemployment in the state and a poverty level approaching 25 percent."

I am reminded of Benjamin Franklin's quote on democracy:

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

20 posted on 08/10/2009 12:06:24 PM PDT by Constitution Day
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