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DEMS UNGLUED: MELTDOWN ON HEALTH-CARE CRITICS
NY Post ^ | August 8, 2009 | Jonah Goldberg

Posted on 08/08/2009 2:21:40 AM PDT by Scanian

THE Democratic Party is pan icking, lashing out like a cornered animal, all because its effort to take over the health-care industry is coming apart like so much wet toilet paper.

Nancy Pelosi, who will get her own bound volume in the annals of asininity, has outdone herself. When asked by a reporter whether the protests at various town-hall meetings represented legitimate grassroots opposition or were manufactured "Astroturf" stunts, she replied, "I think they're Astroturf. You be the judge. They're carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on health care."

Now this is a pas de trois of dishonesty, slander and idiocy. Not only is Pelosi lying when she says protesters are bringing swastikas to these town halls, not only is she suggesting that American citizens are Nazis for having the effrontery to get in the way of ObamaCare, but she's also saying that the alleged swastikas are obvious proof that these protests are manufactured by slick PR gurus.

How does that work? What public-relations genius says: "OK, we need these protests to seem like an authentic backlash of real Americans. Make sure everyone has enough Nazi paraphernalia!"

Meanwhile, Sen. Barbara Boxer insists the protests have to be fake because the protestors are too "well-dressed." Likewise, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says this is all "manufactured anger" because the protestors -- he calls them the "Brooks Brothers Brigade" -- are too tastefully appointed to be authentic protestors. Apparently only filthy hippies can petition government.

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To: Scanian

Dems unglued and sending in the goons.


21 posted on 08/08/2009 4:37:52 AM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: Scanian

“too well-dressed”

And guess what boxer?-, we also bathe unlike your filthy socialist scumbag supporters of this obomanation of a government.


22 posted on 08/08/2009 4:46:54 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: ronnie raygun

“Our fighting men and women are labled murderers of men women and children in the dead of night by Kerry and Murtha, we are astroturf nazi right wing terrorists by Pelosi, our veteran hero’s are now classified as terrorists, we all are country bumpkins holding on to our religion and guns, we are to shut up and get out of the way so they can clean up our mess, we are racists bigots who need to be reminded everyday. Please feel free to add to the list of disdain the demorats have for the American people they work for!”

We, being proud of our country and our nationality are foolish for not realizing that our country is the scourge of the Earth. They glibly apologize for being American to global delight.


23 posted on 08/08/2009 4:57:52 AM PDT by stevestras
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To: Scanian
Indeed. Protesters, according to the 'Rats, look like this, and if they do, there is no problem with the swastika.
24 posted on 08/08/2009 5:05:12 AM PDT by jsh3180
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To: Scanian

Nancy and Barbara are turning into doddering old women before our eyes. Sad, but fitting.


25 posted on 08/08/2009 5:07:09 AM PDT by avenir (The tyrant's device: Whatever is possible is NECESSARY!)
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged

IIRC, a single lone swastika was spotted on a protester’s sign, and it was overlaid with the red circle-slash emblem, symbolizing opposition to the Nazi-ish aspects of Obamacare.

If SanFranNan thinks the swastika represented the protesters’ own sentiments, she’s even stupider than we thought.


26 posted on 08/08/2009 5:16:21 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("O Muslim! My bullets are dipped in pig grease!")
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To: avenir

But for botox, they’d both look like shriveled prunes, or overly large raisins...

It’s time to take back the country.


27 posted on 08/08/2009 5:19:42 AM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2013: Change we can look forward to.)
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To: Scanian
Why is it not hypocrisy for the left to complain that the right is organizing protests as the left itself organizes protests against the right?

It is not hypocrisy because the protesters on the right are Nazis and racists and the same rules do not apply to protesters on the left who are pure.


28 posted on 08/08/2009 5:37:08 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: Scanian
The dems are miscalculating the numerical magnitude of the opposition to government healthcare, and they are also underestimating the intensity and passion behind it.

The references to "Brooks Brothers" is simply one more revelation of their disdain for the private sector.

On this issue, the lines have been clearly drawn. We are now witnessing the beginning salvos in an existential conflict between the private sector and the public sphere.

For years, with the economy humming along, the private sphere has remained inert, allowing the words "rich" and "profit" to become pejoratives, passively accepting the umbilical union of the words "evil" and "CEO". Our private sector institutions have sat idly and impassionately as employers, entrepreneurs and investors have been maligned and targeted as the enemy of the state. There's been seething anger, and it's coming to the fore now because people are now afraid-fear is the driving force behind the tea partiers, and fear has gotten them off their duffs and into the streets.

The war is on.

29 posted on 08/08/2009 5:41:24 AM PDT by wayoverontheright
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To: svxdave
I get a kick out of those at the Town Hall meetings who are identifying themselves as registered Democrats.

Dont forget many of us changed partys in last years primary. Given the opportunity to go to a town hall meeting I will be a "Democrat against socialized medicine"
30 posted on 08/08/2009 5:45:31 AM PDT by boxerblues
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To: Scanian
"I think they're Astroturf. You be the judge.

They're carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on health care."

Nancy, the swastikas and symbols are meant to show what the people think YOU are, not a statement of what the people are.....

.....Nancy is dense.

31 posted on 08/08/2009 6:13:31 AM PDT by SteamShovel (When hope trumps reality, there is no hope at all.)
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To: Scanian

Simply idiotic. We used to live in a country where you could question public policy without being demonized by stupid politicians. Being against this health care bill does not make you a fascist, a racist, or unAmerican.


32 posted on 08/08/2009 6:38:51 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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To: Scanian

He’s wrong on this. Many of the Democrat Reps don’t give a rat’s rear end about what their constituents think - they are voting for this bill regardless.

They don’t CARE if it costs them their jobs...


33 posted on 08/08/2009 6:54:47 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (I loathe the ground he slithers on!)
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To: Scanian
Meanwhile, Sen. Barbara Boxer insists the protests have to be fake because the protestors are too "well-dressed."

Mighty condescending from a wealthy woman who has never had an honest job in her life and has plastic surgeons on retainer.

34 posted on 08/08/2009 7:06:41 AM PDT by varon (Allegiance to the constitution, always. Allegiance to a political party, never.)
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To: elcid1970
And actually, that poster was unknown at the time Pelosi made her remarks. She was just making it up.

The whole "Brooks Brothers Riot" comment is another left-wing paranoid fantasy. I tried to find video of it, but what I remember is that the "Republican Riot" was to stop the attempt by Florida Democrat election officials to take the vote counting behind closed doors. The "Rioters" (Republicans remember) were chanting "let the press in". Some riot, some chant, some nefarious plot.

But this shows that the Democrats never forget a previous lie. The repeat the lie, over and over and over through the years, so that they gradually change the public's view of the matter.

Case in point, Clarence Thomas: When he testified after Anita Hill's scurilous attack on him, 2/3's of Blacks believed and supported Clarence Thomas. After years of repeating the lies about him, now the liberals can get away with calling Justice Thomas "not a real black" without a peep from anyone.

35 posted on 08/08/2009 7:07:17 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (Are they insane, stupid or just evil?)
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To: Mr Rogers

If they thought there actually was a chance they’d be voted out they’d care...but too many of them are gerrymandered into safe districts and run unopposed, which gives them the idea that they’re some kind of royalty.


36 posted on 08/08/2009 7:14:48 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: Voter#537
"Oh Nancy, the day you are gone will be a day to rejoice." Penis pinching Pelosi is a crazy, old woman. Second in line of succession.
37 posted on 08/08/2009 7:17:19 AM PDT by y6162 (uish..)
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To: wayoverontheright

It would seem to be that way...yet Obama’s favorabilty +- on Rasmussen has been getting better for him all week.

Public reacting negatively to the town hells? Or buying the BS about an approving economy?


38 posted on 08/08/2009 7:22:29 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: nathanbedford

Of course—it’s rank hypocrisy. Nobody likes to get beat at their own game and so far, that’s what’s been happening.

How the public reacts to violent episodes at the town halls should prove critical. We need to keep the focus on the rotten Obamacare bill and not on the meetings themselves.


39 posted on 08/08/2009 7:24:55 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: Scanian
The Obama admin believes it knows best....the only legitimate beneficiary of "people power" with a monopoly on democratic organizing.....terrified that it will be hobbled if it loses this fight.

Golly, poor, poor Obama must be desperate (sniffle).

HERE'S AN AD CONGRESSMEN CAN RUN IN THER DISTRICTS TO GET SUPPORT FOR OBAMACARE

"Hope and change is here. Under Obamacare's "Funds for F*****s"......we will all get free high-tech penile implants.

"Obamacare's 'Penis-a-Go-Go' has microscopic cameras and remote video relays to wide screens in Planned Parenthood offices....to make sure Americans are using sanitary sexual organs."

"This will save millions in STD medical costs."

"Plus I will never have to use a rolled-up sock again (sob)."

40 posted on 08/08/2009 7:56:38 AM PDT by Liz (When people fear govt, we have tyranny; when govt fears the people, we have freedom.)
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