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DRUDGE: Pelosi/Hoyer op-ed in Monday USATODAY calls townhall protesters 'un-American'
Drudge Report | 08/09/09

Posted on 08/09/2009 8:15:18 PM PDT by MissesBush

Edited on 08/09/2009 9:29:22 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Developing.No details yet. Drudge only has the headline.

This ugly attack on average Americans exercising their free speech rights may prove to be the Democratic Congress's Stalingrad. I guarantee you Pelosi would not have published this without Obama's approval. This contempt for political opposition and Americans uneasy about the Democrats's healthcare plans goes all the way to the Oval Office. Is this the kind of "bipartisanship" and "unity" Obama and the Democrats promised, attacking hard working Americans as being "un-American?" Is this the change we can believe in?

Democrats regularly attacked Bush and Republicans for intolerance to opposition when Bush was president. I sure never heard any leading Republican governing official call the president's opponents "un-American" or to publish an ugly broadside to that effect. The media would have gone crazy on any Republican who did. But I'm sure the media will ignore this and go back to obsessing about Rush comparing Obama's logo to a swastika. It seems now not a bad observation now that we're seeing the administration and the Democrats's fetid intolerance to political opposition beginning to come into bloom.

Full Pelosi/Hoyer op-ed here


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; aads; democrats; duplicate; hoyer; liberalfascism; obamacare; pelosi; socilaizedmedicine; townhalls; waterloo
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To: StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; DKNY; ...

ping!


101 posted on 08/09/2009 11:27:07 PM PDT by nutmeg (Obamunism is destroying America)
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To: Frantzie; All
"Mich of ACRON are illegals. SEIU is the illegal aliens union and also many govt workers and hotels."

Speaking of the SEIU: Are you paying attention now? youtube video

and

Are you paying attention now? ver. 2 youtube video

Pay attention to the ending in both, the second one elaborates more!

Make sure everyone you know sees these videos!

102 posted on 08/09/2009 11:28:08 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the next one...)
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To: avacado
Pelosi is busy buying herself Gulf Stream private jets with taxpayer money. She's a pig.

She is rather odd...

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103 posted on 08/09/2009 11:33:30 PM PDT by Cobra64
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To: Pantera

Ill tell you why. Because when the bullets start flying and Obama sees the fighting in the streets he can call Martial law and then we are all screwed even more. Reminds me of the scene from Pink floyd the Wall when the kids are walking on the conveyor belt and falling in the the meat grinder.. Kind of like the Americans did in Nov 2008. Scary times.


104 posted on 08/09/2009 11:48:08 PM PDT by crazydad (=============)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

I remembered those dark days Primary last year and voted for Hillary in the Primary. We went to Denver protest, DNC and all DEM are in tank with him, Puma just had to suck it up. McCain campaign didn’t know who they were dealing with. McCain had no match with him.


105 posted on 08/10/2009 12:38:25 AM PDT by Libertynotfree
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To: Pantera

Perhaps they are embarrassed that so far only their thugs are shown on newscasts beating other protesters. They want to provoke us to act as violent as they intend to? To show us with angry faces so they can use such pictures to spook the populace to run from us?


106 posted on 08/10/2009 12:43:03 AM PDT by ransomnote
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

I am reading this late at night - pardon the drive by comment. Ordinarily I would agree with you (re unpatriotic speech) but it seemed different to me re: the Iraq war. I think protesting war is OK as long as it is speech directed to those who make such decisions. But some anti-war efforts seemed, IMHO, to be aimed at demoralizing our troops and our country. If I say “Stop! What we are doing here is wrong!” it doesn’t affect the prosecution of the war but if I claim our soldiers are baby killers (I know - extreme example) and cause them to wonder if they will be treated like returning Vietnam vets were treated (abused) or if I try to undermine military leaders in the eyes of those they command or the eyes of the enemy (embolden them) - then that seems different then protest that tries to say ‘see all of us in the streets? all across the country we stopped what we were doing and gather here to chant our views because we felt letters were being ignored, phone calls are being ignored. We who stand in the streets are an open letter to those in the capitol who aren’t listening or who are underestimating the strength of our convictions’ Another example - if I disagree with my boss, I do not try to defeat his decisions. Obama and Co. think that they are my boss and that I should not try to defeat their decisions - the tea party or health care protesters seem to be trying to ‘explain’ that THEY are the boss of public servants.
I apologize for being so verbose - you get SOME kind of award if you were patient enough to read all that - I just don’t know what it is yet (*starts rummaging through clutter on desk -looking for something reward-worthy*)


107 posted on 08/10/2009 12:54:51 AM PDT by ransomnote
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To: swatbuznik
" I’m convinced we’re being taunted, "

Or egged on and provoke to do something to give them a reason to send out Mr. Obama's secret police force.....
Perhaps they are provoking us to play into their hands so their plan maybe full filled....
108 posted on 08/10/2009 2:19:43 AM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM .53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart, there is no GOD.)
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To: Prophet in the wilderness
Yes, they want a Reichstag Fire, a false-flag provocation to justify martial law.

Clinton spun OKCBomb as due to "hate radio", won re-election by gaining eleven points.

Give this enemy nothing to use.

Photograph everything.

Here is where the Left defines itself as national socialist thugs acting as the S.A. of ali Hussein Mufti of Mombasa.

109 posted on 08/10/2009 2:24:16 AM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: Colonial Warrior
If BIG BROTHER is watching, BIG BROTHER better get another set of glasses because BIG BROTHER is not seeing clearly and not seeing the truth..... opps, wait, BIG BROTHER is the one spreading the lies.....
110 posted on 08/10/2009 2:29:27 AM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM .53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart, there is no GOD.)
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To: MissesBush

who cares what they say, they are liars and this attack on the comman man is going to screw them like they deserve.


111 posted on 08/10/2009 3:57:28 AM PDT by The Wizard (Democrat Party: a criminal enterprise)
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To: swatbuznik

If that’s their plan they won’t wait for us, they’ll send in their own dressed to look like us....


112 posted on 08/10/2009 4:02:46 AM PDT by The Wizard (Democrat Party: a criminal enterprise)
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To: Islander2
They've gone past "union goons" now - guess there aren't enough of them to fill all the "lying sack of shit dem townhall meetings". Anyhow, we're paying for the shills - check out these ads:

http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/etc/1303066561.html

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/npo/1307220962.html

http://www.fundforthepublicinterest.org/jobs/citizen-outreach-staff

113 posted on 08/10/2009 4:03:17 AM PDT by GOPJ (Liberal paid protesters ...http://209.157.64.200/focus/news/2310139/replies?c=22)
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To: RaceBannon
The link you're asking for is in my tagline. Here's a few more.

They've gone past "union goons" now - guess there aren't enough of them to fill all the "lying sack of shit dem townhall meetings". Anyhow, we're paying for the shills - check out these ads:

http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/etc/1303066561.html

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/npo/1307220962.html

http://www.fundforthepublicinterest.org/jobs/citizen-outreach-staff

114 posted on 08/10/2009 4:06:45 AM PDT by GOPJ (Liberal paid protesters ...http://209.157.64.200/focus/news/2310139/replies?c=22)
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To: Pantera

VOTE AGAINST ALL INCUMBENTS


115 posted on 08/10/2009 5:00:17 AM PDT by crazyotto
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To: CPT Clay
He’s surrounded himself with mostly far-left academic types

This is the key to the whole package. These guys have been planning to take over the economy since they got into teaching in the 70's.

116 posted on 08/10/2009 5:31:34 AM PDT by alrea
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To: GOPJ

I am reading the comments made on USA Today in response to the Pelosi/Hoyer Op-Ed. They are amazing! I’ve gone through the first 100 (there are now over 300) and not one, NOT ONE, is in agreement with Pelosi/Hoyer!!!!

In fact, the comments are being made by people who sound really upset at the Op-Ed.

I would think there’d be at least one SEIU member or DU/Kos Kid/Huff Poster who would like to challenge the commentors but none, nada, zip, zilch!

EPIC FAIL!!!!!


117 posted on 08/10/2009 6:13:33 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: Admin Moderator

Thanks for the welcome!


118 posted on 08/10/2009 8:32:46 AM PDT by MissesBush
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To: nutmeg

Thanks for the ping!


119 posted on 08/10/2009 8:34:40 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alas Babylon!
I’ve gone through the first 100 (there are now over 300) and not one, NOT ONE, is in agreement with Pelosi/Hoyer!!!! In fact, the comments are being made by people who sound really upset at the Op-Ed. I would think there’d be at least one SEIU member or DU/Kos Kid/Huff Poster who would like to challenge the commentors but none, nada, zip, zilch!

The people on the other side are working for minimum wage - I doubt they even know what's going on - no less can write about it. Dems will get their professional paid writers on to it - but they don't have enough money to hire people to do the "small" stuff.

Dems are the party of liars.

We're the party of citizens.

120 posted on 08/10/2009 8:38:33 AM PDT by GOPJ (Liberal paid protesters ...http://209.157.64.200/focus/news/2310139/replies?c=22)
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