Posted on 09/02/2009 10:38:16 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Democrats were at the dais on a recent evening outside the National Hispanic Cultural Center here going on about health care and the need for change when a man in the crowd gave a lusty, ragged shout: “No compromise!”
He was not an opponent of health care overhaul, but a firm believer whose shout, occasionally taken up by others, was emblematic of the anxious and sometimes crotchety reception Democrats are receiving on a cross-country bus trip.
The 11-city tour to rally the faithful for President Obama’s health care plan has been tapping the party’s inner Hamlet. How much should liberal Democrats compromise with Republicans, and with moderates in their own ranks? How strongly should they cling to the notion of a public-option health provider? And perhaps most importantly, can people like Ilene Weiss be roused, as she was during Mr. Obama’s campaign for the White House last year, to get out and volunteer?
“It’s a pep rally,” said Ms. Weiss a 53-year-old public school teacher as she arrived, feeling, she said, a little discouraged about where the health care debate is going and what might happen in Congress. “I’m hoping this will pep me up.”
At many of the town-hall-style meetings on health care held in Congressional districts across the country in recent weeks, democracy was served up at its most raw and confrontational. The bus tour has been different, with Democrats mostly talking politely among themselves — a modern-day version of the parlor game “telephone,” where one person whispers in the ear of a neighbor, communicating a message they both hope will come out in coherent fashion at the end.
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I wonder what the carbon footprint of that bus calculates out to be.
Pep Rally my ass. Try PAID moveon.org/ACORN operatives.
Awwwwwww. Isn’t that cute? They’re trying to do their own, little ‘Tea Party Express’. Not an original idea in them.
FAIL!
If I remember correctly, Hillary did the exact same thing when her health care plan was dying.
It really is pathetic.
Prepaid bus tour: “Grassroots.”
Public outrage at townhalls and on Internet: “Astroturf.”
A “lusty ragged” man and a public school teacher.
Sounds about par.
Prepaid bus tour: “Grassroots.”
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Yeah. With OUR $$$$$$$.
Here they come with their shackles and chains
Democrats are commin to take our freedom away
Said they're gonna force though their health care plan
Democrats are commin with their shackles and chains
Shackles and chains, Shackles and chains
Democrats are commin with their shackles and chains
Work us day and night and take our money away
Work us for the tax man in shackles and chains
Shackles and chains, Shackles and chains
Democrats are commin with their shackles and chains
They take our money and they through it away
They live like kings but want us in shackles and chains
Now they want to decide if we live or die
Put themselves in charge of our health care plan
Yea here they come with their shackles and chains
Democrats are commin to take our freedom away
Said they're gonna force though their health care plan
Democrats are commin with their shackles and chains
Shackles and chains, Shackles and chains
Democrats are commin with their shackles and chains
Work us day and night and take our money away
Work us for the tax man in shackles and chains
Shackles and chains, Shackles and chains
Democrats are commin with their shackles and chains
They take our money and they through it away
They live like kings but want us in shackles and chains
Now they want to decide if we live or die
Put themselves in charge of our health care plan
Yea here they come with their shackles and chains
Democrats are commin to take our freedom away
Said they're gonna force through their health care plan
Democrats are commin with their shackles and chains
Shackles and chains, Shackles and chains
Democrats are commin to take your freedom away
Shackles and chains, Shackles and chains
Democrats are commin with their shackles and chains
In the interest of matching image and quality to actual content of the Health bill, shouldn’t they be calling this a “Yugo Tour”?
Let their buses roll into DC about noon on September 12th. Yeah that will be nice.
Why don’t they unite with The RINO express tour and then we can confront them all at the same time?
Or (get this, this is good!) we call it performance art, and get a grant!!
How 'bout we just let the hen fruit fly 'cause we think they're all a$$holes?
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