The Hypocrite Party

Excuse me ma'am ? Boxer is a sorry excuse for a US Senator (but not alone in that characterization)

Boxer: Anti-Obamacare Protesters Suspiciously Well-Dressed [Mark Hemingway]

Seriously, a United States senator thinks that because the angry consituents at townhalls are presentable, it means they aren't authentic protesters. Hot Air has the video.


Krauthammer:

On the administration’s denunciation of protesters at health-care town halls:

There is a certain irony in an administration denouncing ordinary Americans who get together to express what they believe and to confront authority, when that administration is led by a man who began his career as a community organizer, whose job, as I understand it, is to take ordinary Americans, get them together to express what they believe, and express demands against the authorities.

So it's unbelievably hypocritical. And, of course, as we just heard, this only happens when you have a conservative protest. It is called a mob. If it’s a liberal protest, it is called grassroots expressing themselves.

Remember, just a year ago under the Bush administration, dissent was the highest form of patriotism. And today it is a kind of either organized anger, it's a facsimile of anger, it's unpatriotic, it's whatever.

Look, there is a genuine revolt against the idea of remaking a [health-care] system when over 80 percent of Americans have health insurance. Five of six of those are happy with their health care, and four of five are happy with their health insurance.

You have an administration arrogantly deciding it is going to tear it all up, start all over, and people are surprised that there are protests, and say that it had to be manufactured? Of course it is spontaneous. [If] people go together on a bus, that's entirely legitimate, and it ought to be encouraged.


When Did Dissent Stop Being Patriotic? [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

Watching the Dems' "Enough of the Mob" ad, I can't help but think that the Left's shut-up-and-take-our-expensive-controlling-medicine strategy won't be well-received.