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Liberals Paint Health-Reform Protesters As Dangerous Nuts
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Posted on 08/04/2009 9:41:45 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Liberals Paint Health-Reform Protesters As Dangerous Nuts Tuesday, August 04, 2009 By Susan Jones, Senior Editor

(CNSNews.com) – Democrats have a warning for Republicans: Angry constituents who berate their congressional representatives at public forums are “dangerous” people.

“These are the sort of excessive displays that breed a backlash,” wrote a Politico.com blogger on Monday. The national press secretary for the Democratic National Committee linked to the Politico item in a mass email on Tuesday, effectively endorsing the blogger’s message.

“Yes, there is now much energy on the right,” Politico’s Jonathan Martin wrote on Monday afternoon, adding “there is danger in such raw passion.”

Martin mentions Rep. Lloyd Doggett’s recent encounter with protesters at an Austin area grocery store. Some of his constituents were captured on videotape shouting “just say no” (to the Democrats’ health care plan).

Two minutes into the YouTube video of the Doggett protest “you’ll find a guy carrying a kid on his shoulders and hoisting a sign with the Nazi ‘SS’ lettering,” Martin wrote. (The hand-lettered sign appears to read “SS Stop SS Socialized” ?? health care.)

The New York Times quoted Doggett as saying that he was “ambushed,” not by grass-roots protesters, but by “a very coordinated effort where the local Republican Party, the local conservative meet-up groups sent people to my event.”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; bhohealthcare; codepink; democrats; dnctalkingpoints; healthers; liberalfascism; obamacare; pravdamedia; socializedmedicine; townhall; townhalls; zogbyism
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To: Las Vegas Ron

I heard that too. I am posting my reply link to the Rush thread.


101 posted on 08/04/2009 11:42:54 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Jimmy Carter - now the second worst POTUS ever. BHO has #1 spot in his sights.)
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To: Luke21
And how did they portray Cindy Sheehan?

You put that nucase on the same level as us?

102 posted on 08/04/2009 11:43:43 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Move over NetZero - Obama's in the house!)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

nucase = nutcase


103 posted on 08/04/2009 11:44:36 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Move over NetZero - Obama's in the house!)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

You are right, they like chaos. There is opportunity in chaos and there are ways to do things without being noticed.


104 posted on 08/04/2009 11:46:06 AM PDT by wxgesr (I want to be the first person to surf on another planet!)
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To: mojitojoe
I checked the DUmpster last night and they are furious


105 posted on 08/04/2009 11:50:37 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Move over NetZero - Obama's in the house!)
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To: Sub-Driver
Angry constituents who berate their congressional representatives at public forums are “dangerous” people.

Sounds just like ACORN, doesn't it?


106 posted on 08/04/2009 11:53:25 AM PDT by Polarik (Obama: When destroying America is not enough.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I ran across the FULL transcript of when Zero was addressing SEIU on Universal Health Care:

http://www.americanprogressaction.org/events/healthforum/obama_transcript.html


107 posted on 08/04/2009 12:18:25 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Yeah, I’m a nut with Special Forces training.


108 posted on 08/04/2009 12:36:30 PM PDT by scottywr ("Birth Certificate? We don neeed no steenkeen birth certificate!")
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To: Sub-Driver

This is the same game they played with immigration reform.

The politicians are insane to be pushing this in the face of a WALL of opposition.

Who are they REALLY obeying in selling this ghoulish monstrosity? Who is pushing their buttons?


109 posted on 08/04/2009 12:43:55 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: PLD

Yes.

0bama needs the internal crisis to trigger martial law.


110 posted on 08/04/2009 12:44:52 PM PDT by EBH (it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new Government)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

He won’t be happy until he can declare Marial Law over the entire country.


111 posted on 08/04/2009 12:46:10 PM PDT by divine_moment_of_facts (“Cap and Trade bill tells us how to live.. Health Care bill tells us how to die.” Bauer and Rose)
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To: Sub-Driver

This angry backlash against SOCIALISM via Obamacare is a sign that people have had ENOUGH.


112 posted on 08/04/2009 12:46:47 PM PDT by Biggirl ("God Is Great, Beer Is Good, People Are Crazy"-Billy Cunnington :)=^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^=)
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To: Sub-Driver
BLOAT
113 posted on 08/04/2009 12:58:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (If we're an Empire, why are Cuba, Iraq, Philippines, Japan & Germany independent?)
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To: divine_moment_of_facts

He’s a Catholic now?!! LOL


114 posted on 08/04/2009 12:59:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (If we're an Empire, why are Cuba, Iraq, Philippines, Japan & Germany independent?)
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To: divine_moment_of_facts

He won’t be happy until he can declare Marial Law over the entire country.

Obama can go to hell!


115 posted on 08/04/2009 1:10:08 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: EBH
"0bama needs the internal crisis to trigger martial law."

Someone explain to me how this gets done: There are approximately three million personnel in the U.S. Armed forces (Active and Reserve) and about 836,787 law enforcement officers at every level. Call it four million. Not anywhere near all of these people can be assigned strictly to martial law. Maybe a third, at best, so lets say one and a half million. Can you see any way that that number of personnel can control 300 millions, most of which will be armed, many as well or better than the troops and law enforcement are? That's supposing that most of the military or LEOs will go along with Mr. Obama;s declaration. No guarantee of that, in my mind.

116 posted on 08/04/2009 1:25:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (If we're an Empire, why are Cuba, Iraq, Philippines, Japan & Germany independent?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”


117 posted on 08/04/2009 1:40:14 PM PDT by EBH (it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new Government)
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To: Sub-Driver
ALINSKI:

RULE 5: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." There is no defense. It's irrational. It's infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.

RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.

118 posted on 08/04/2009 1:55:30 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: longtermmemmory
This is the same game they played with immigration reform.
The politicians are insane to be pushing this in the face of a WALL of opposition.

ALINSKI:

RULE 10: "If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive." Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog.

119 posted on 08/04/2009 1:58:25 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: concerned about politics

Obama sees this as the counter revolution to the revolution.

These are the 25 million for the weather underground deathcamps.


120 posted on 08/04/2009 2:02:05 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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