Are We In America Or Amerika?

IBD Editorials ^ | August 7, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff

[Kaslin]

Public Debate: Democrats, bloodied over their attempt to force health care "reform" on Americans, are looking more unreasonable and hysterical by the day. This isn't healthy for the republic.

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Their increasing anxiety and fear of failure are typified in the words of the leader of their party, who wants Republicans to keep their mouths shut while he "fixes" health care.

"I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking," the president said Thursday at a political rally in Virginia. "I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess."

So much for the promises of bipartisan lawmaking. So much for open discussion. So much for understanding who really caused the "mess" in the first place. Like Al Gore claiming the debate about global warming is over, the White House simply wants to shut down dialogue over who controls more than one-seventh of the economy.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has yet to come out in favor of repressing speech. But she's inclined to ignore it. The San Francisco Democrat vowed Thursday in Denver that the swelling public opposition to government-run health care would not persuade party leaders to back down.

"The plan for August is to have a discussion, to listen carefully to what people are saying, what ideas they may have to improve the legislation as it affects them," Pelosi said. In other words, Americans can suggest changes, but the elitists in Washington will not withdraw plans to take over the best health care system in the world.

[Kaslin]

[vpintheak]

"I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking," the president said Thursday at a political rally in Virginia. "I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess."

Obama, the annointed one, the light in the window, the ocean rise-stopper, the uniter, has spoken: Shut your pie-holes!

[Kackikat]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2310994/posts

Check same website for Codex, and it’s relationship.

[Clintonfatigued]

Based on the town hall protests, I’d say we’re still America.

[SkyDancer]

Must be the USSA with all those czar’s that are being appointed.

[TurtleUp]

Democrats, bloodied over their attempt to force health care "reform" on Americans, are looking more unreasonable and hysterical by the day. This isn't healthy for the republic.

I disagree. The healthiest thing that has happened for America since the sad day when ACORN and the dead combined with white guilt to elect a druggie to occupy our White House has been the tone-deaf overreach of the Dems. For them to attempt to force their commands on an unwilling populace is our best hope. For them to tell the people to "shut up" is good. For them to tell my grandmother that she is a Nazi and that she is a stooge rather than an authentic concerned citizen is wonderful. I hope the socialist in our White House and his minions double down on their bets. I hope they expand their "Report Your Neighbor" program. Things are looking up for America. Finally. The $2T wasted getting here is a small price to pay if it cripples obama's government before he does any permanent harm. I just pray that America can survive four years of obama's evil, and that we'll learn never again to vote socialist. Hysteria from the Dems makes our survival more likely.

[Talisker]

Things are looking up for America.

I agree completely. The legions of sorcerer's apprentices finally have their greedy hands on the magic wand, and it's going to destroy them because they can't comprehend that their safety lies in letting go of it.

[jwalsh07]

The answer is simple. It will be Amerika if we back down to union punks and it will remain America if we stand eyeball to eyeball with them. I’ll be doing the latter.

[gakrak]

“Based on the town hall protests, I’d say we’re still America.”

If the Obambi care Acorn and union thugs want a war, they may be looking at a war they won't ever forget. Our freedom will not be trampled by the likes of this administration of communists. Amen/

[sanjoaquinvalley]

I agree. While many hardcore liberals will never change, there will be a lot of moderates who will get their eyes opened. The sight of union thugs and acorn types getting into this will scare a lot of fence sitters to their senses.

[RKM]

But we do support our fellow citizens' right to express their rage at an injustice, particularly if it makes lawmakers uncomfortable. Shouldn't Americans bristle when their independence is threatened, when a federal official, in this case White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina, says party leaders "will punch back twice as hard" when voters merely show their displeasure?

[ottbmare]

"I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking," the president said Thursday at a political rally in Virginia. "I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess."

Then the members of your party are going to have to stop talking, Obama, because it was not the Republican Party that created Medicare and Medicaid. We are not the ones who passed legislation preventing interstate competition between insurance carriers. We are not the ones who passed legislation providing care for illegal aliens, or advanced policies admitting more aliens, with their costly medical problems, to this country. We have not stood in the way of tort reform or fought against Medicaid and welfare recipients paying a copay to discourage absurd uses of the emergency room services that bankrupt hospitals.

[sheik yerbouty]

The Kenyan is morphing into Idi Amin on Slimfast..