The recent attacks by Republican leaders and their ideological fellow-travelers on the effort to reform the health-care system have been so misleading, so disingenuous, that they could only spring from a cynical effort to gain partisan political advantage. By poisoning the political well, they've given up any pretense of being the loyal opposition. They've become political terrorists, willing to say or do anything to prevent the country from reaching a consensus on one of its most serious domestic problems.
If by some miracle, you are reading this, and you are of a Conservative bent, someone who has a fundamental political disagreement with the President over this Health Care Legislation passed, I say, go to the Town Halls. I'm a Liberal, and that's totally cool. That's kind of the idea of Representative Democracy. Go for it. Represent your point of view. Ask tough questions. I actually encourage this behavior; so do your Congress-people.
But there is a line here, and too many people on your side of the aisle are only too happy to cross it.
You don't have to get nasty. You don't have to get violent, and you sure as hell don't have to shut down the meeting for everyone else. There are undecided people out there with questions of their own. Do you really think you're convincing them to take your side in this??
What's going on here is dishonest, and dangerous both politically and societally. And for that some of the people in the Tampa video should be in jail.
And some of this stuff is just not @$@$%ing funny. We are on the razor's edge here people, because like I said...the Union folks are coming. We can either have a Health Care debate or an arms race between two motivated and pissed off camps. What's it going to be?
And some of this stuff is just not @$@$%ing funny. We are on the razor's edge here people, because like I said...the Union folks are coming. We can either have a Health Care debate or an arms race between two motivated and pissed off camps. What's it going to be?
