Crude Tactics by Obamatons

Peggy Noonan's column in the Wall Street Journal truly nailed it:

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.

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But most damagingly to political civility, and even our political tradition, was the new White House email address to which citizens are asked to report instances of “disinformation” in the health-care debate: If you receive an email or see something on the Web about health-care reform that seems “fishy,” you can send it to flag@whitehouse.gov. The White House said it was merely trying to fight “intentionally misleading” information.

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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.

These excerpts do not do the column justice. Read it all, please.

Pelosi Caught in Another Lie

John Lott contacted Nancy Pelosi's office about her claim that the angry folks protesting the health care bills were carrying swastika's. Here is the only photo they could come up with.
A "No Nazis" sign?

Of course, Nancy Pelosi is hardly the poster child for truth telling.

Astroturfing By Obamatons

Having been blindsided by the spontaneous uprising of Americans who don't want to lose their health care freedom, the delusional DNC accused nameless insurance companies and right wing extremists of astroturfing, that is drumming up false grass-roots support to pack Congressional Representatives' town hall meetings.

Now the Obamatons are shamelessly astroturfing to get supporters to town hall meetings. The missive to supporters reads:

Friend –

I wanted to send you an urgent invitation to an important Town Hall with Sen. Jeanne Shaheen on Thursday morning. She’ll be talking to constituents and gathering feedback — this is an ideal opportunity to make sure your support of health insurance reform is seen and heard at exactly the right time to make a huge difference.

Our congressional representatives are back home this month, and they’re facing more and more pressure from special interests on health insurance reform. It’s critical that we get out there and show them where we stand.

I hope you can join us.

What: Health Care Town Hall with
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen

Where: Grafton Town Hall
E Grafton Rd.
Grafton, NH 03240

When: Thursday, August 6th
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Our representatives are under attack by Washington insiders, insurance companies, and well-financed special interests who don’t go a day without spreading lies and stirring up fear. We need to show that we’re sick and tired of it, and that we’re ready for real change, this year.

Please come to the Town Hall, and make sure that the most powerful voices in this debate are those calling for real reform, not angrily clamoring for the status quo.

RSVP here: http://nh.barackobama.com/GraftonTH

Thanks,
Tim

Tim Arsenault
New Hampshire Field Director
Organizing for America

P.S. — Before the event, please print off a flyer to display and make sure that your support is visible.

Here's the funny part. The astroturfers are supplying signs with the Obama campaign logo. I guess that is truly transparency, but of an evil sort.


It is pitiful that the Obamacrats have to orchestrate friendly crowds to counter the spontaneous angry constituents. Pitiful. And evil.

h/t Hotair.com

AARP Angers Members by Supporting So-Called Health Care Reform

AARP has never been a friend of conservatives. Here they show their incredible arrogance by closing down a meeting when they did not like what the members had to say. Watch it here:


Who is that witch anyway? Watch the witch pull the microphone while angry members keep going. And who is the dumb cluck who says he is an AARP volunteer? What a know-nothing! He thinks insurance companies are in the business of denying health care.

Contact AARP and tell them what you think about their representation of seniors.

Update: The town hall meeting took place in Dallas.

Poll Numbers Bad for Dems

James Carville's Democracy Corps polling organization has, oh so quietly, released the results of its latest poll:

By 53%-42%, those who are likely to vote in the 2010 election say Barack Obama is 'too liberal.'

They believe by a margin of 53%-40% that he will 'raise my taxes.'

By 55%-42% they say 'he promises things that sound good' but that won't get done.

By a whopping 65%-32%, likely voters call Obama a 'big spender.'

The news for 'Democrats' more generally is no better.

On the economy, likely voters give 'the Democrats' just a 6 point edge (45%-39%) over 'the Republicans.'

Likely voters give the Republicans an 11 point edge (49%-38%) on taxes.

The Republicans have a 13 point lead (47%-34%) on government spending.

Republicans have a 5 point edge (42%-37%) on the budget deficit.

Will the Democrats listen? Or rush headlong to the elimination of our health care freedom?

How to Smuggle a Gun Into Jail

Well, if you are fat enough, tuck it -- and a couple of magzines -- between your layers of fat. This story from Houston, Texas.

Congress's Newest Convicted Criminal

Oddly the cash in the freezer did not get this guy convicted, but the jury found him guilty on 12 of the 16 counts of bribery and other corruption in office when he was an elected Representative to Congress.

The New York Times does not tell his party affiliation as an elected Represetative.

Guess? Anyone?

Does anyone think that detail would have been omitted if the guy had been a Republican?