That’s the sound of those bulging blood vessels in my forehead.
If I read this article correctly, all persons opposing government control of healthcare are violent nuts. One person called North Carolina Congressman Brad Miller’s office complaining that the congressman didn’t want to hold a town hall meeting because he knew it would cost him his life. Miller’s spokeswoman, LuAnn Canipe, referred to that as a “strong-arm tactic.” She said callers are, “trying to instigate town halls so they can show up and disrupt.” The US Capitol Police are now investigating the threat.
Earlier this week, White House officials counseled Democratic senators on coping with disruptions at public events this summer.
This is, of course, a splendid example of deficit spending and another reason to make rich Republicans pay higher taxes.
Anyway, across the county, opponents to the seizure of the medical industry by Cuffy-Meigs bureaucrats, have been showing up by the hundreds to appearances by congressmen.
The episodes have drawn widespread media attention, and Republicans have seized on them as well as polls showing a decline in support for President Barack Obama and his agenda as evidence that public support is lacking for his signature legislation. Pushing back, Democrats have accused Republicans of sanctioning mob tactics.
Of course one way to settle the partisan dispute, which would not be unprecedented, would be to declare the president infallible and deal with unrepentent heritics appropriately.
