Posted on 08/12/2009 5:54:31 AM PDT by Timeout
Here's the original footage of the powerful Dan Rostenkowski being chased down the street by angry senior constituents. Apparently, the Dems have learned NOTHING in the past 20 years.
Once you've wiped away the tears of laughter, note the haughty contempt he has for anyone who's not a "kingmaker" like him.
He turns on a reporter: "Who are YOU?!"
But then it really gets good. Surrounded and unable to escape, he trots down the street, reporters in tow. One asks if he understands voters' anger.
"No", he says, "they don't understand what's going on".
I wish someone would seek out those people in the video. If they're still alive, they're the very ones who will be weeded out under Obama's health care plan.
“No”, he says, “they don’t understand what’s going on”.
READ.
THE.
BILL.
DOOFUS.
Obama and democrats do not understand anything at all but many conservatives and even some independents do indeed understand what the communist dems are doing in Congress and the White House and how their hatred is destroying our liberties and stealing tax payers accumulated wealth.
They know that we know and therefore we are un American for resisting their hatred and thieving and lies.
Can’t you just see the meeting in DC?
“What are we going to do if the American people get angry?”
“What are they gonna do?”
“Yeah, I guess you are right. It’s not like they’d actually get violent or anything. I mean it’s OLD PEOPLE!”
chuckles all around...
Socialists in Congress and Country Club Republicans, will learn the hard way, just like Yamamoto in WWII, that they have “awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.” Since these morons are totally unaware of American history and have learned nothing from it, this quote will go over their heads and they will have to learn the hard way how enraged the sleeping giant is in 2010 and 2012!
I am glad the SEIU, the DNC and various Democrats are bashing the protesters.
The truth is the truth, and the ordinary citizens who oppose ObamaCare will be very offended at the names they’re being called.
Good morning ExTex! You sure woke up on the right side of the bed with this one!
Ping!
Yes, old people. Fossils like me.
If they have not figured it out yet, they will soon see.
I will not drink the Kool-Aid.
I will not get in the Box Car.
I will not forget this and “them”.
I will not go quietly as they destroy this great nation.
You are right, she always does.
And she always has the fire in the belly.
they have “awakened a sleeping giant
I sure hope so.
Obviously a bunch of organized, racist birthers.
It's not so much a bill, as an outline of what the government will do after it is passed, it seems to be very open ended in that the verbiage states in various forms what this part of the bill will include and so on.
The incident resulted in front page coverage nationwide. The TV news ran footage of Rostenkowski fleeing from his constituents. Rostenkowski reportedly asked his press secretary whether the issue would go away in a few days, and was told “Let me put it this way Congressman. When you die, they will play this clip on television.” Three months later, the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act was repealed.I won't hold my breath for MediaCrats to interview her and ask "What's changed?".As with today, the media had little sympathy for the protesters....
[Read the whole thing...but I here's the part about Schakowsky]
And, perhaps the richest irony of all -- the organizer of the protest against Rostenkowski was Jan Schakowsky – then Director of the Illinois State Council of Senior Citizens – and currently Democratic representative from the Ninth Congressional District of Illinois, and chief deputy whip to Majority Leader Pelosi. You can read Schakowsky's account of the incident, her role, and her views on the importance of citizen involvement in government here – at a lecture she gave at Northwestern’s Institute for Policy Research in 2002, entitled “Why Citizen Activism Matters: The View From Washington.”
This bill was purposely written this way and has probably been fine tuned since it originally failed in 1993.
Atom, I’m glad you enjoyed that post.
The look of shock and predictable fake outrage on the faces of the MSM and corrupt arrogant politicians (in these Townhall meetings) is hilarious if it weren’t so pathetic! If these destroyers of America, like Kapo Soros and the Fuhrer and the traitors behind him, had read their American history, they would already know that our proud heritage is not one of rolling over when our enemies strike.
I’d give anything to find one of those seniors this woman “organized” (see post 13).
Great video if one of them would come forward and say how different her attitude was back then, when she respected dissent.
ping!
We have one advantage over the American Fuhrer. We have 80 million Americans who own some 400 million guns. The German Fuhrer didn’t have that problem ;-)
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