8 thoughts on “A surprising result to today’s Pelosi “protest””

1. Plain and simple, these lunatics (the birthers, teabagers, minutemen, etc.) are all afraid to face the facts and reality for that matter.

   Krugman nails it:

   Some commentators have tried to play down the mob aspect of these scenes, likening the campaign against health reform to the campaign against Social Security privatization back in 2005. But there’s no comparison. I’ve gone through many news reports from 2005, and while anti-privatization activists were sometimes raucous and rude, I can’t find any examples of congressmen shouted down, congressmen hanged in effigy, congressmen surrounded and followed by taunting crowds.

   And I can’t find any counterpart to the death threats at least one congressman has received.

   and so does Pearlstein

   As a columnist who regularly dishes out sharp criticism, I try not to question the motives of people with whom I don’t agree. Today, I’m going to step over that line.

   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.

   I remember seeing some pretty insane protesters during the Presidential campaign, but these lunatics on the far right have grown down right militant.  

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   1. He asks, what’s driving the anger?  He concludes – and I agree – that the protesters aren’t reacting so much to what Obama is proposing but rather to who he is.  In other words, it’s an illustration of the cultural and racial anxiety that exists in our country, and is also behind the “birther” movement.  It’s difficult to find any other explanation for what’s happening.

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   2. I like Krugman as much as the next Progressive, but let’s not toss the term “terrorist” around in a way that fuels the fire.  Terrorism is a tactic, plain and simple.  That tactic requires the use of violence to interrupt or change the news cycle.  We can stretch threats and loud screaming to fit that definition, if you want, but what good does it serve?  

      It only confirms the “tea-baggers” view that the government now views 3rd parties as “domestic terrorists” (see DHS report scandal earlier this year).  There ARE real domestic terrorists out there.  They shoot doctors and blow up Federal buildings to advance their agendas.  

      I don’t care what someone puts on a sign.  Even if I don’t like it or find it reprehensible, they’re still waving signs, and not guns.  Until they weaponize those signs, they’re not terrorists.

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2. As seen in Denver:

   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…

   

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3. http://burntorangereport.com/d…

   

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   1. They’re all offensive, but that one especially.

      There is absolutely no comparison between wanting to give every American affordable health care and the systematic murder of 6 million Jews. If that kid had his entire family murdered by the Nazis I don’t think he’d be as casual about that symbol.

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      1. he’ll have his entire family’s health plan covered by the “nazis”.

         And then he’ll change his last name to Doosh.  

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