Pelosi & Hoyer: Dissent Is The New Un-American Activity
This week we begin a Monday, well, like a Monday! Here it is–the opinion editorial from Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer:
‘Un-American’ attacks can’t derail health care debate
These disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differing views — but of the facts themselves. Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American. Drowning out the facts is how we failed at this task for decades.
They have written a parody of themselves.
As KnightHawk said yesterday, “That’s awesome…. let them keep digging themselves in deeper.”
Michelle Malkin provides these links:
Legal In-sur-rec-tion: Our Leaders Versus the Un-Americans
So this is what it comes to. After eight years of protesters hanging George Bush in effigy, calling him a Nazi, disrupting conservative speeches on campuses by taking over stages or throwing pies, creating websites and movies that wished for Bush’s death, and a myriad of other indignities…. After all this time, Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer discover what it means to be “Un-American.”
Gateway Pundit: Just when you thought they could stoop no lower…
Dem Leaders Pelosi and Hoyer misrepresent tea party patriots– misrepresent their socialist health plan– say protesting their agenda is “un-American”– forget to mention the violent physical attacks by Leftist thugs on patriotic protesters.
Founding Bloggers fisks the column in: Pelosi And Hoyer Lie About Socialized Medicine: Test And Exams…”Without Paying A Dime Out-Of-Pocket”
and concludes:
They have such contempt for the American people.
Nancy & Steny need to be reported to the White House fishy line for national dissemination of erroneous material about health care!
UPDATE: Michelle Malkin’s Lead Story for today:
Rep. Tsongas tries to explain why Congress is exempt from Obamacare. Fails.
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H/T: Hot Air: Link to Pelosi & Hoyer Op-Ed, USA Today, Michelle Malkin, Legal In-sur-rec-tion, Gateway Pundit, Founding Bloggers, and, of course, KnightHawk for his pithy commentary and mpthompson for the photo!
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It looks like we have a bunch of night owls at BJG. I went to bed at 11:20 (I am in the Eastern Time Zone) and there was a 50+ comment thread started after I was asleep.
To the topic at hand. Imagine the media’s reaction if the statements made by Pelosi and Hoyer would have been made by the two top Republicans between 2001 and 2006. In the eyes of today’s media, criticism of the country is patriotic. any criticism of Obama is not only treasonous but also racist.
You have to give Palin and Bachmann credit for shining the spotlight on Izekiel Emanual and other Obama healthcare advisors. People who take the time to read their statements quickly realize that “death panel” is not just a sound bite, but a very accurate one.
Obama won’t curb healthcare costs via tort reform or denying treatments to illegals. But, he will curb them by denying them to U.S. Citizens,
It’s time to take our country back.
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Yeah, I was kind of surprised to see how late people were up on a Sunday!
People who take the time to read their statements quickly realize that “death panel” is not just a sound bite, but a very accurate one.
The phrase really nails it.
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As Jim Hoft (Gateway Pundit) pointed out, Pelosi and Hoyer totally neglected any mention of SEIU attacks and disruption. This is totally contemptible.
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As I’ve said before, in the eyes of Charles Gibson an “orchestrated” demonstration is one where everyone dresses differently and carries homemade signs. A spontaneous one is where everyone wears blue SEIU tee-shirts, carries professionally made signs and roughs up anyone who gets in the way.
Gibson is about as dishonest as they come.
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It’s really laughable when you see videos and pics of the protests.
From Rassmussen, are a majority of American citizens “Un-american”?
On Health Care, 51% Fear Government More Than Insurance Companies
That last item took me by surprise, but I would assume it means the church-attenders have inculcated “dangerous” ideas of reliance on God and caring for one another rather than trusting in Big Brother and nameless bureaucrats to care about you! I guess the Dems will next go after the churches for “Un-American” activities next.
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bc
The sign variation has caught my eye when I’m watching these townhall meetings.
In one townhall, the people “for” health care were holding professionally printed signs, while the greater majority, who were vehemently against health care, had their words of protest scrawled on handmade ones. Interesting detail…..
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Janzam -
Either Charles Gibson is not as poerceptive as you or as honest as you (or maybe both).
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More signs of the single-payer hoodwinking going on in Obama’s world.
Government health care in stealth mode Michael Barone
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If Gibson checked his bias at the door, he would be able to preceive what is really going on at these meetings! But, political prejudice clouds one’s eyesight!
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Jan, thanks for the info from Barone. That’s important to know. I’m glad Barone was the one to point it out as he has informational clout.
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A compilation of democratic strategy, on how to get from “here to there,” with the public opition, without the public even knowing! Watch the video — it’s amazing!
Does Linda Douglass know about this? Power Line link
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INC — watching the dims plan their take down of health care is almost too difficult to watch in the morning. It spoils my coffee!
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That Power Line article is terrific:
I love the Moby Dick line!
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Here’s the video from Barone, via Power Line:
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INC — don’t mean to be flooding the thread this morning, but just too many good articles to let stand without people having a chance to read them!
I particularly like human interest stories that depict, in one person’s life experience, what we all are saying is going to happen if this health care plan passes. Here is one from a Dr. that is compelling.
Medicine and the new slavery Human Events
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Jan, no problem. I appreciate the extra info and I’m sure others do as well.
That story about the physician is one of the great pending problems.
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Obama campaigned on transparency, yet I don’t remember a more dishonest administration in my lifetime. You have A$$holerod, Emanuel and dozens of people like Linda Douglass, who is as dishonest as the day is long (at the North Pole in mid-June).
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Off-topic: Obama slips to -9 in Rasmussen Daily Presidential Polling (49 approval/51 disapproval).
Off-topic: Obama slips to -9 in Rasmussen Daily Presidential Polling (49 approval/51 disapproval).
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Obama campaigned on transparency, yet I don’t remember a more dishonest administration in my lifetime.
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Kind of makes one remember ‘I am not a crook’ with more compassion…and makes Carter look better, too.
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beej, I saw an article the other day of someone saying Clinton was better!
(Of course, he was forced to listen to the pushback and had a pathological need to be liked which appears to be lacking in Obama.).
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well, I don’t know about ‘better’ but he wasn’t quite as frightening…and partly because we had a pretty tough group of congress critters at the time, with the Contract with America, etc…
geesh. Remember Hillary Care?? But as bad as Billary was, with their own form of … thuggism… the SS didn’t have them in their back pocket. Oops. did I make a nazi reference??? I MEANT to say the SIEU didn’t have the Clintons in their back pocket.
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Maybe I had the adjective wrong!
Yes, I remember HillCare!
I thought SS = Secret Snitchers!
Saw that reference at TobyToons!
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Via Critical Condition at NRO:
House Dems set up healthcare ‘war room’
Looks like they’re declaring war no longer on political opponents, but now on dissenting citizenry!
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“But as bad as Billary was, with their own form of … thuggism… the SS didn’t have them in their back pocket.”
This Presidency is like no other in our nation’s history. Zero’s biggest problem was that he tried to do too much too fast, exposing his hand.
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Zero’s biggest problem was that he tried to do too much too fast, exposing his hand.
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Thank the Lord. It might be stopped, instead of succumbing to stealth moves. He (thankfully) was too greedy, too power hungry to move slowly.
hmph.
It must be awful to be him about now. Except he doesn’t realize it yet.
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Got my new bumper sticker on my vehicle. Take a look here.
What do you think?
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Just left you a note on the other thread. I want to try to see if I can load the pic into this post if it’s OK with you.
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Absolutely, go ahead.
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Done, go take a look!
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From Caleb at RedState:
What’s Faker Than Astroturf?
Information on who’s funding the pro-ObamaCare pushback.
HCAN, Soros, AFL-CIO.
BTW, have you seen the craigslists ads yet?