Promoted by Jeff
You knew someone was going to find it. The folks over at Mere Rhetoric have:
Now, I was no fan of President Bush’s plan to privatize Social Security (mostly because there was no “opt-out entirely” provision). However, while liberals claim that Joe Wilson’s shout during Tuesday’s speech was “unprecedented” and “racist,” we can see the Democrats were just as capable of such behavior.
And they didn’t apologize for their outbursts afterward.
President Obama and the Democrats are so panicked over the outrage being expressed at Democrat town meetings they refer to the concerns and opinions of millions of Americans as “manufactured” and label protesting citizens expressing their First Amendment rights as “angry extremists” for voicing their opposition to President Obama’s government-run healthcare reform rush.
President Obama is so concerned that he implemented an opposition surveillance program — Obama’s version of the President Bush era terrorist surveillance program — that is of questionable legality. The DNC is even out with a way over-the-top ad bashing those trying to exercise their right to petition their government.
Compare the Obama/Democrat reaction to opposition to that of the Bush Administration, which used such dissent as an opportunity to highlight our rights and freedoms, rather than to try and diminish American liberty as are the Democrats.
Haven’t the Democrats seen the multitude of public opinion polls showing that a majority of Americans believe Obamacare is a bad idea? Are the Democrats so out of touch that they are surprised that Americans are concerned about a $1 trillion-plus so-called healthcare reform? Do they care?
…by flipping them off, locking them out, and calling the police on them.
As Gateway Pundit reports, this past Friday a Tea Party protest outside Democrat Senator McCaskill’s offices in St. Louis was received by her staff with obscene gestures and a refusal to hear their concerns. The protesters were voicing their objections to socialized, government-controlled healthcare and the inevitable (and already-proposed) tax increases and related financial irresponsibility being proposed by the Democrats. Apparently the staffers felt “they were being threatened”.
Real threatening-looking crowd, eh?
Um, no. Police? Senator McCaskill, is that how you respond to your constituents’ concerns? By insulting them and chasing them away?
Last night Senator McCaskill twittered: “I moved my office from fed bldg to street front when I got elected to make it more user friendly, approachable.“.
More approachable. Right.
(Update: McCaskill attempts to explain her staff’s behavior. Not a real apology, you’ll notice: “sorry you were offended” rather than “sorry my staff members were such idiots”. Moe would have banned her for that pathetic attempt.)
In Hartford, part of New England which has only Democrat representation in D.C., the tax day Taxed Enough Already (TEA) party protest drew a crowd of thousands:
An anti-bailout, anti-stimulus “tea party” at the state Capitol in Hartford on Wednesday drew an estimated crowd of 3,000 to protest what they consider excessive government spending on the day that many Americans pay their federal and state taxes.
There is video from the Hartford TEA party. I can’t get it to work here, but you can watch it at the Courant or my Right Side Politics column at the Examiner.
The Hartford Tea Party was one of the hundreds held across the nation yesterday. In Connecticut, TEA party protests also took place in Greenwich, New Haven, New Milford, Norwich and Westerly.
As I said previously, contrary to the spin the spend too much, tax too much and borrow too much Democrats and their supporters in the still Obamamania infected mainstream media would have you believe, this is not a Republican or a Fox News movement. As Glenn Reynolds explains, the TEA party movement is a spontaneous grass roots protest.
