Democrats Try to Delegitimize Healthcare Reform Protesters

  Members of congress have returned home and they are facing angry constituents. Between protesters at town hall meetings and telephone calls and emails US representatives are getting an earful.

  Are they going to listen to us? That remains to be seen, so far top Democrats are trying to trivialize us. Instead of listening to the protesters they are downplaying us. Much like they scoffed at the Tea Party protests and called the protesters nothing but fringe radicals and racists, they are doing the same when it comes to healthcare reform.

  Harry Reid said:

These are nothing more than destructive efforts to interrupt a debate that we should have, and are having,” Reid said. “They are doing this because they don’t have any better ideas. They have no interest in letting the negotiators, even though few in number, negotiate. It’s really simple: they’re taking their cues from talk show hosts, Internet rumor-mongerers … and insurance rackets

  First he says that we are trying to have a debate and then he goes on to say the reason we are protesting is because we don’t have any ideas. Which is it Harry? We are trying to debate and show you that we do not agree with you. You say we are having a debate yet you ridicule those on the other side of the debate, that sounds more like Chicago thug politics than political debate to me. If you were honest you would listen to your critics’ point of view, not minimalize their opinions.

  Nancy Pelosi said that protesters are carrying swastikas yet offered no proof, slanderous accusations in order to hide from the debate.

  Barbara Boxer said that all we are trying to do is hurt the president.

  Other Democrats are complaining that those who ask critical questions at these town meetings are nothing more than GOP plants and do not represent an independent position. They claim that these protests are false and that they are orchestrated events.

  There is probably some GOP involvement here but even if there is, so what? There is definitely some organization here, so what? Since when did it become wrong to organize  opposition to legislation in order to be heard? This is part of the American system. What was Code Pink if it wasn’t a politically organized protest group of the left. This is nothing more than that except that these protests are coming from the right. While Code Pink was held to almost godlike status the same type of behavior from the right is seen as counterproductive and destructive. The double standard is in full display here.  

  I happen to find it encouraging that the right is finally starting to organize, mobilize, and vocalize in the name of issues that are important to us. We have been silent too long and it is about time that we wake up.

  The Tea Parties were only the beginning, we are now energized and we will remain energized until the 2010 elections. The left is trying to delegitimize us because they fear us, they know that we are a potential problem in the next election. So instead of debating us and instead of listening to us they are trying to make a mockery of us. But it will not work. We will prove to them next year that we are not going away.

  Secretly they know this that is why they are trying to do damage to us. The damage will be done, but is us who will do the damage in toe 2010 election. They will listen to us then, they will have no choice.