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DNC: GOP 'inciting angry mobs' of 'rabid right wing extremists'
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Posted on 08/04/2009 4:46:07 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

DNC: GOP 'inciting angry mobs' of 'rabid right wing extremists' @ 4:13 pm by Michael O'Brien

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) accused Republicans of fueling "mob rule" by way of encouraging conservative protesters of Democratic lawmakers and the Obama administration across the country.

DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse brought out the heavy artillery in a lengthy statement issued late Tuesday blasting the GOP and enablers in interest groups for spurring the protests.

"The Republicans and their allied groups — desperate after losing two consecutive elections and every major policy fight on Capitol Hill — are inciting angry mobs of a small number of rabid right wing extremists funded by K Street Lobbyists to disrupt thoughtful discussions about the future of health care in America taking place in Congressional Districts across the country," Woodhouse said in a statement.

The statement comes on the heels of townhalls and events in districts across the country, where House lawmakers are on August recess, at which conservative activists have often engaged in raucous protests.

Woodhouse likened the crowds to those during the 2008 presidential campaign who accused then-Sen. Obama of being a "socialist," out of which he said the "birther" movement was born.

He also accused Republicans of coordinating with interest groups.

"These mobs are bussed in by well funded, highly organized groups run by Republican operatives and funded by the special interests who are desperately trying to stop the agenda for change the President was elected to bring to Washington," Woodhouse said.

"The right wing extremists' use of things like devil horns on pictures of our elected officials, hanging members of Congress in effigy, breathlessly questioning the President's citizenship and the use of Nazi SS symbols and the like just shows how outside of the mainstream the Republican Party and their allies are," he added.

Update, 4:35 p.m.RNC press secretary Gail Gitcho responds:

It is remarkably callous and extraordinarily out-of-touch for the White House and the Democrats to call the genuine concern over President Obama's government-run health care plan "manufactured." American families, small business owners, doctors, veterans, and seniors have real and serious concerns over the president's risky and costly government-run health care experiment. And they should — taxpayers will pay for this costly health care experiment because it will raise taxes without decreasing costs, increase the deficit and lead to less choice and lower-quality health coverage

Republicans are also pointing to a line contained with a Democratic memo outlining recess activities highlighting the party's coordination with HCAN, Families USA, AFSCME, SEIU, AARP, among other groups, over recess.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aarp; afscme; bhohealthcare; familiesusa; hcan; rentamob; seiu; townhalls
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To: Sub-Driver

Seems liek the DNc has been out and about real Americans! They must beat a hasty retreat to their ivory towers and echo chambers lest they should have their feelings hurt again.


41 posted on 08/04/2009 4:59:40 PM PDT by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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To: Sub-Driver
"These mobs are bussed in by well funded, highly organized groups run by Republican operatives and funded by the special interests who are desperately trying to stop the agenda for change the President was elected to bring to Washington," Woodhouse said.

Prove it. Surely there must be photos of these magical busses.
42 posted on 08/04/2009 5:00:12 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Wait’ll we start appointing our own Czars


43 posted on 08/04/2009 5:00:14 PM PDT by BigLittle
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To: Sub-Driver

After listening to traitors like Sen. Durbin, Sen. Kerry and Sen. Kennedy (not to mention Senator and Pres. Candidate 0bama) lie about our troops and incite treason and sedition in their supporters I don’t want to hear any blather from Democraps about the GOP inciting anger over the DNC’s Marxist policies.


44 posted on 08/04/2009 5:00:17 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: Sub-Driver

The dumbest part of this accusation is the part about the GOP, hell they couldn’t rally conservatives any more then they could find their asses with both hands.


45 posted on 08/04/2009 5:00:35 PM PDT by Recon Dad ( MARSOC DAD)
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To: Sub-Driver

They are declaring war on the citizenry.

Only those that agree with them are to be counted - just like in the Acorn census.


46 posted on 08/04/2009 5:01:01 PM PDT by Williams (It's The Policies, Stupid.)
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To: Sub-Driver
""Why would you guys try to stuff a health care bill down our throats in three to four weeks, when the President took six months to pick a dog for his kids?!" Translate that DNC!
47 posted on 08/04/2009 5:01:02 PM PDT by cranked
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To: Sub-Driver

So what were the organizations that bussed in loads of people to protest Bush called by the media and the WhiteHouse?

Bush congratulated them saying that it was a free country and they had free speech. Remember Cindy Sheehan down in Texas outside his ranch?

What hypocrites the dimocrats and the media are.


48 posted on 08/04/2009 5:01:15 PM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)
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To: cripplecreek

I’ve been reading John Nicolay & John Hay’s biography of Lincoln (Nicolay was Lincoln’s private secretary with Hay his assistant during Lincoln’s WH years). The Southern pro-slavery Democrats were using this tactic back then; against both the Republicans, and Northern Democrats (think Stephen Douglas wing) who’s position on slavery was somewhat less rabid than theirs. This is nothing new. It’s the Democrat playbook for going on two centuries.


49 posted on 08/04/2009 5:01:20 PM PDT by bcsco (When Obama mentioned shovel ready jobs, I never thought he might be thinking of graves.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Forget tea parties. That sounds far too delicate.

Let's have a . . . .

Day of RAGE!


50 posted on 08/04/2009 5:01:23 PM PDT by behzinlea
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To: Noumenon

Exactly so.


51 posted on 08/04/2009 5:01:25 PM PDT by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: Sub-Driver
"These mobs are bussed in by well funded, highly organized groups run by Republican operatives and funded by the special interests who are desperately trying to stop the agenda for change the President was elected to bring to Washington," Woodhouse said.

O.K., Woodhouse, show me the buses in which these people supposedly arrived in?

52 posted on 08/04/2009 5:01:37 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: Sub-Driver
They're becoming unglued, they don't know what to do when faced with real grassroots opposition to their madness.

They're not used to conservatives protesting. We're polite, orderly and usually working a job with not enough time to do this. The fact it's happening anyway means the ground is changing under The Messiah.

53 posted on 08/04/2009 5:02:00 PM PDT by colorado tanker (I'd like to trade in this clunker - President Obama.)
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To: The Cajun

“GOP ‘inciting angry mobs’ of ‘rabid right wing extremists”

Yea us!


54 posted on 08/04/2009 5:02:41 PM PDT by y6162 (uish..)
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To: La Lydia

These RED COMMIE sons of bitches ain't seen nothing yet.

They are going to get back what they dish out in spades.

Not to mention the civil disobedience when they try to enforce their illegal decrees.


55 posted on 08/04/2009 5:02:43 PM PDT by Rome2000 (Hussein Baraka Mook Kebba)
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To: bcsco

The fact that we aren’t led by any centralized organization scares the hell out of them. True grass roots has no leaders to single out, buy off, or eliminate.


56 posted on 08/04/2009 5:03:42 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I seem to recall a politician in the last election telling his supporters to “get in their face”.


57 posted on 08/04/2009 5:03:50 PM PDT by AmusedBystander (Officer Crowley busted my bro, so I dissed the ho and now I am filled with woe.)
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To: TruthWillWin

racist , bigot and homophobes are the most common words the left uses.

Shame they look stupid when they refer to someone who opposes the perverted as homophobic as phobic means to live in fear to be afraid of.

I know plenty of folks who oppose the homosexual agenda but I do not know one person who is afraid of them or who lives in fear of them

As for racist.
well they say asking for past records is racist
they say opposing bozo is racist
they say making fun of bozo is racist
go figure

See the left needs bumper sticker and without them they are stuck for words so all they can refer to is those 3 words when all bumper stickers fail


58 posted on 08/04/2009 5:04:18 PM PDT by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman -- end racism end affirmative action)
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To: Sub-Driver

Well Well Well, The worm is turning.

You guys have not seen nothing yet!!!

The protest is growing you lying scum. We must keep the pressure on!!!

Our Forefathers would be proud of us!!!


59 posted on 08/04/2009 5:04:32 PM PDT by waxer1 ( "The Bible is the rock on which our republic rests." -Andrew Jackson)
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To: Sub-Driver

I can see Barney Frank dressed as Elmer Fudd:
“Shhhhhh! Be vewy, vewy, quiet!
I’m hunting those wascally wabid Wepubwicans! Huh, huh, huh, huh, huh!!”


60 posted on 08/04/2009 5:05:37 PM PDT by golas1964 (It takes an ACORN to raze a village.)
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