Amen and amen! It's not like those who are against Obamacare went to confrontation, in person, at town hall sessions as a first response. Congress critters have shown they are all but immune to less insistent methods of their constituents expressing their lack of approval for something. They had limited success with stopping amnesty, but since then it's like the Congress has taken an oath not to fall for that again. Drill here, drill now is another example of how resistant the ruling class has become to input from the peons. If you don't have lots and lots of money or other quid pro quo to offer they will have nothing to do with you. Ditto the stimulus. Ditto the car makers. Ditto TARP. Ditto anything that even smells of conservative ideals.
I think we should adopt a logo for Stop the Foolishness movement that uses a good old stop sign as its center piece. Push hard to associate the ubiquitous octagon-shaped, white text on a red back ground to represent how fed up we are with all the BS spending and borrowing and encroachment on our live, and turning nearly half the population of a once proud individualistic nation in moochers! Make the association so well known that every time someone approaches a stop sign they will be reminded of just how out of control government at every level is.
And when we express the reason for our outrage we should always be sure to include not just health care, but the whole list of things that we are protesting, spending overall, taxing, control, non-responsiveness to our input, the list goes on and on.
It's really not accurate to frame the movement as Stop the Foolishness, it goes far beyond foolishness. Foolishness is playing practical jokes on people at the office. In fact, it goes beyond even madness, approaching the level of psychotic.
I am not a creative person, but I think a good graphic design person could make a logo that would sweep the nation, much like the ribbons of various colors have. Might even include a red ribbon, as suggested by a caller to Bill Bennett's radio show suggested yesterday morning, in the logo.
Anyway, Congress has no one to blame in all of this except themselves. But like the abuser their first response to doing something stupid and damaging is to say “Look what you made me do.”
Just food for thought.