Joined:
Jan 16, 2006
Messages:
11,103
Likes Received:
0
This is an oustanding article.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204908604574334623330098540.html
Excerpts:
What has been most unsettling is not the congressmen’s surprise but a hard new tone that emerged this week. The leftosphere and the liberal commentariat charged that the town hall meetings weren’t authentic, the crowds were ginned up by insurance companies, lobbyists and the Republican National Committee. But you can’t get people to leave their homes and go to a meeting with a congressman (of all people) unless they are engaged to the point of passion. And what tends to agitate people most is the idea of loss—loss of money hard earned, loss of autonomy, loss of the few things that work in a great sweeping away of those that don’t.
People are not automatons. They show up only if they care.
Click to expand...
All of this is unnecessarily and unhelpfully divisive and provocative. They are mocking and menacing concerned citizens. This only makes a hot situation hotter. Is this what the president wants? It couldn’t be. But then in an odd way he sometimes seems not to have fully absorbed the awesome stature of his office. You really, if you’re president, can’t call an individual American stupid, if for no other reason than that you’re too big. You cannot allow your allies to call people protesting a health-care plan “extremists” and “right wing,” or bought, or Nazi-like, either. They’re citizens. They’re concerned. They deserve respect.
Click to expand...
Wow.
She absolutely nails it.
LadyEagle
<b>Moderator</b> <img src =/israel.gif>
Joined:
Feb 7, 2002
Messages:
22,028
Likes Received:
1
Great article and she is right on!
Joined:
Apr 28, 2007
Messages:
2,764
Likes Received:
0
Excellent!
(And bumping to the top against other distractions on this forum)
Revmitchell
Well-Known Member
Site Supporter
Joined:
Feb 18, 2006
Messages:
52,015
Likes Received:
3,649
Faith:
Baptist
What the town-hall meetings represent is a feeling of rebellion, an uprising against change they do not believe in. And the Democratic response has been stunningly crude and aggressive. It has been to attack. Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the United States House of Representatives, accused the people at the meetings of “carrying swastikas and symbols like that.” (Apparently one protester held a hand-lettered sign with a “no” slash over a swastika.) But they are not Nazis, they’re Americans. Some of them looked like they’d actually spent some time fighting Nazis.
Click to expand...
Obama should pay attention. But I hope and pray he does not.
Site Supporter
Joined:
Sep 4, 2000
Messages:
20,253
Likes Received:
1,381
Faith:
Baptist
Here comes the real mob—bought and paid for.
Joined:
Mar 9, 2009
Messages:
4,466
Likes Received:
3
Good!
I hope they send teamsters!
LadyEagle
<b>Moderator</b> <img src =/israel.gif>
Joined:
Feb 7, 2002
Messages:
22,028
Likes Received:
1
Check it out - People should start wearing fish heads (like Wisconsin cheeseheads), tee shirts, and carrying "fishing" gear to these Town Hall meetings......Would the Obama mouthpieces get the point?
http://www.zazzle.com/obamacare_is_fishy_tshirt-235550774769502852
Joined:
Jan 16, 2006
Messages:
11,103
Likes Received:
0
The following comes from Neal Boortz...and I did clean up the language a bit (Neal's a bit saucy):
Let's draw a parallel. A man attacks a woman. She fights back. Finally the man subdues her. As he tries to assault her she starts fighting again. "Hold on there," the rapist yells. "I won ... you lost. Now you're supposed to let me do anything I want to you and you can't do a thing about it."
The Democrats - Pelosi, Boxer, et all - have been calling the people who show up at the town hall meetings to protest ObamaCare "thugs." Well, I guess they've decided it's time to thrown in some thugs of their own. Now if you're a Democrat - a looter - and you need some thugs, where are you going to go? You got it! There, that wasn't all that hard, was it? You go to the unions? What better place to find some thugs than a union hall?
And so ... what do we have now? We have violence breaking out at these town hall meetings. And trust me on this one .. the Democrats and most of the media is going to make sure that the people protesting ObamaCare take the blame for the disruptions. Certainly not the unions.
Click to expand...
Quite true.
I fully expect union sycophants to show up and cause trouble. That is, after all, what unions are good at.
IF the AFL-CIO does as they are commanded (and when have they not?), this could get ugly.
Of course...any trouble...whether it be caused by union thugs, Democrats, or Republican operatives...will be blamed on Republicans or conservatives...because a vast number of the media is not conservative.
Joined:
Jul 9, 2009
Messages:
974
Likes Received:
0
You might have seen the news reports about right-wing mobs disrupting congressional town-hall meetings with venomous attacks on President Obama's plans for clean energy and health care.
But now it turns out these mobs are organized and funded in large part by corporate lobbyists! Big Coal, for instance, is spending $40 million to oppose Obama's clean energy bill—and sending a 200,000-person "power army" to flood town-hall meetings.
This comes on the heels of dirty coal lobbyists admitting they sent fake letters on NAACP letterhead to pressure swing members of Congress to vote against the energy bill. Fake grassroots opposition is the key to Big Coal's strategy.
Here are just a few examples of what's been happening across the country:
• In New York, police had to escort a congressman to his car after an unruly mob showed up at his event.
• A Texas Democrat was shouted down by right-wing hecklers, many of whom admitted they didn't even live in his district.
• One North Carolina representative announced he wouldn't be holding any town-hall meetings after his office began receiving death threats.
• And at a Texas Democrat's health care event, a protester held a child on his shoulders along with a sign with Nazi "SS" lettering on it.
LadyEagle
<b>Moderator</b> <img src =/israel.gif>
Joined:
Feb 7, 2002
Messages:
22,028
Likes Received:
1
And you have legitimate links to these, of course.
Edited:
Nevermind, I googled and found the original source to your information---
moveon dot org.
Nuff said.
Revmitchell
Well-Known Member
Site Supporter
Joined:
Feb 18, 2006
Messages:
52,015
Likes Received:
3,649
Faith:
Baptist
This is going to get ugly I fear
Joined:
Jan 16, 2006
Messages:
11,103
Likes Received:
0
You might have seen the news reports about right-wing mobs disrupting congressional town-hall meetings with venomous attacks on President Obama's plans for clean energy and health care.
But now it turns out these mobs are organized and funded in large part by corporate lobbyists! Big Coal, for instance, is spending $40 million to oppose Obama's clean energy bill—and sending a 200,000-person "power army" to flood town-hall meetings.
This comes on the heels of dirty coal lobbyists admitting they sent fake letters on NAACP letterhead to pressure swing members of Congress to vote against the energy bill. Fake grassroots opposition is the key to Big Coal's strategy.
Here are just a few examples of what's been happening across the country:
• In New York, police had to escort a congressman to his car after an unruly mob showed up at his event.
• A Texas Democrat was shouted down by right-wing hecklers, many of whom admitted they didn't even live in his district.
• One North Carolina representative announced he wouldn't be holding any town-hall meetings after his office began receiving death threats.
• And at a Texas Democrat's health care event, a protester held a child on his shoulders along with a sign with Nazi "SS" lettering on it.
Click to expand...
Do you always quote the propaganda of known liars?
Revmitchell
Well-Known Member
Site Supporter
Joined:
Feb 18, 2006
Messages:
52,015
Likes Received:
3,649
Faith:
Baptist
Quoting his own the Democrats are self destructing and complete liars. This is getting bad and I can see this getting bad.
Site Supporter
Joined:
Sep 4, 2000
Messages:
20,253
Likes Received:
1,381
Faith:
Baptist
It's going to have to, if people are going to wake up to the reality of the forces that are engaged to oppress them. It has been beyond diplomacy and debate for years. The socialists won't stop unless they're forced to.
Hopefully, they've overplayed their hand—but I doubt it.
LadyEagle
<b>Moderator</b> <img src =/israel.gif>
Joined:
Feb 7, 2002
Messages:
22,028
Likes Received:
1
The party of death wants to squash us like so many cockroaches.
Then they can have their utopia (2 classes, rich and powerful them--versus millions of Americans, the poor).
We are about to see what they do to squash us with a tyrannical fist.
If they go ahead and use some trick or unseemly method to pass Obamacare, I fully expect the Democrats to utilize the same methods to do away with term limits on POTUS so that they can continue having him as the POTUS.
Perhaps they will create a new amendment that names him as king of the US.
They have the power and they can do just that using the same methods they use to pass Obamacare in both Houses.
Once you know what evil is, it is easy to predict what evil will do next.
Revmitchell
Well-Known Member
Site Supporter
Joined:
Feb 18, 2006
Messages:
52,015
Likes Received:
3,649
Faith:
Baptist
The party of death wants to squash us like so many cockroaches.
Then they can have their utopia (2 classes, rich and powerful them--versus millions of Americans, the poor).
We are about to see what they do to squash us with a tyrannical fist.
If they go ahead and use some trick or unseemly method to pass Obamacare, I fully expect the Democrats to utilize the same methods to do away with term limits on POTUS so that they can continue having him as the POTUS.
Perhaps they will create a new amendment that names him as king of the US.
They have the power and they can do just that using the same methods they use to pass Obamacare in both Houses.
Once you know what evil is, it is easy to predict what evil will do next.
Click to expand...
Liberals are great at fabricating victims this is no surprise.
Joined:
Mar 9, 2009
Messages:
4,466
Likes Received:
3
Yea, it's not reliable like WND. :laugh:
Joined:
Nov 21, 2004
Messages:
22,678
Likes Received:
64
Joined:
Nov 21, 2004
Messages:
22,678
Likes Received:
64
You might have seen the news reports about right-wing mobs disrupting congressional town-hall meetings with venomous attacks on President Obama's plans for clean energy and health care.
But now it turns out these mobs are organized and funded in large part by corporate lobbyists! Big Coal, for instance, is spending $40 million to oppose Obama's clean energy bill—and sending a 200,000-person "power army" to flood town-hall meetings.
This comes on the heels of dirty coal lobbyists admitting they sent fake letters on NAACP letterhead to pressure swing members of Congress to vote against the energy bill. Fake grassroots opposition is the key to Big Coal's strategy.
Here are just a few examples of what's been happening across the country:
• In New York, police had to escort a congressman to his car after an unruly mob showed up at his event.
• A Texas Democrat was shouted down by right-wing hecklers, many of whom admitted they didn't even live in his district.
• One North Carolina representative announced he wouldn't be holding any town-hall meetings after his office began receiving death threats.
• And at a Texas Democrat's health care event, a protester held a child on his shoulders along with a sign with Nazi "SS" lettering on it.
Click to expand...
As you always say: Source Please?
LadyEagle
<b>Moderator</b> <img src =/israel.gif>
Joined:
Feb 7, 2002
Messages:
22,028
Likes Received:
1
It was move on dot org... I googled.