The Anger Grows
Ed Morrissey:
The anger comes from the blatant disregard of even the pretense of legitimate governance. Elected representatives from Congress openly admit they’re not reading the bills, while leadership in both chambers try to ram through complicated bills without giving anyone a real chance to learn what they say and what they do. It doesn’t help that the bills in question — health care reform and cap-and-trade — are both elitist policies that essentially puts Washington in charge of decisions that people should make on their own. Put all that together, and the only surprise should be that the anger took this long to develop.And more mobsters from Colorado -- they want to be more "mobby"! UPDATE: The coming revolution?
As for me, I see it on TV and I read it in the blogs, but I’m still having a hard time envisioning the flashpoint happening. Where I Iive, there is no time bomb waiting to explode. Instead, there is palpable torpor. Of course, I don’t live at the margins where red and blue meet. Obama won here by over 75%, and I’m not even looking over the Bay to Berkeley or San Francisco. I guess that’s why the good citizens are still lying in bed smoking their post-election cigarette and feeling the bliss. They haven’t yet figured out that, quite literally, they’ve been screwed.And from Bookworm's comments:
But something interesting happened yesterday. On the boat coming home from the game, he sneered about the “organized disrupters” and “mobs” that have been showing up at congressional town hall meetings, and snorted something about “believing that Obama’s healthcare proposal will deliberately target old people to die.” It was typical NPR and NYT blather, swallowed whole and with no critical thought or skepticism. I gently said, “I know some of the people you are talking about and they are intelligent, civil professionals who are see vast problems with the scheme. The reason they’re raising their voices is that they think their congresspeople are stonewalling their concerns.” He seemed willing to listen, so I continued with a couple of examples, telling him that my wife’s $240,000-per-year drug therapy for a rare genetic disorder would disappear under Obamacare. I pointed out that all socialized systems are simply rationing schemes, and that a bureaucrat faced with approving a $240,000 expenditure for a 64-year-old woman or using the money to innoculate 50,000 children is not going to favor the old lady. I told him, too, about my old high school friend Tom, a talented TV producer who emigrated to New Zealand in 1997. In 2003 doctors discovered a pinhole-sized defect in one of his heart valves and scheduled him for corrective surgery. “Scheduled” in this case meant queued. He had to wait months for an available operating room. While he waited, his heart degenerated, and by the time the socialists in New Zealand got around to operating on him, his heart was too weak to restart. He lasted five days on machines before his wife pulled the plug. I asked my friend to multiply my wife and Tom by several million to get an idea of why the “mobs” at town halls are worried that Obamacare will morph quickly into The Great American Death Machine. Surprisingly, my friend listened and did not argue. It seems to me that he was hearing things for the first time that just aren’t discussed among the smugsters at NPR and the other whore media. I think I planted a seed—we go way back and he knows that I am not a madman or a liar.Keep planting seeds. . . .