JP’s Mind

I’m angry. I’m very angry.

In recent weeks there has been vigorous debate over the Health Care plans working their way through Congress, and much of this debate is being seen in protests during ‘town hall’ meetings and the like.

It seems though that the DNC, the democratic leadership in D.C., and even the White House has chosen to spew lies and filth about those American citizens who are exercising their right to free speech – simply because the feelings and ideas they are expressing do not conform to the ideas and plans of the DNC and its automatons (the White House).

The White House has called the uproar at recent town halls on health care “manufactured outrage.” Senator Harry Reid calls the concerned citizens speaking their minds “loud, shrill voices.”  Nancy Pelosi called protesters Nazis, who are “carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on health care.” There is no evidence on this whatsoever.

But the polling discredits their charges. According to a recent Quinnipiac poll, on Obama’s effort to overhaul of the health-care system, 52 percent disapprove of his handling of the issue while 39 percent approve. Disapproval jumped 10 points in the last month alone, and 60 percent of Independents – a key voting block – disapprove of the plan. Bottom line: the outrage is real.

Despite the legitimacy of the public’s concern, demonizing democracy has become pretty common these days for the left. They wrote off the tea parties as fabricated and claimed they were funded by FOX News . Most of the mainstream media took their cue from them and refused to report on the gatherings. Congressional Democrats sought to reimpose the “fairness doctrine” on broadcasters in order to shut down the one conservative-leaning communications medium, talk radio. And the administration has already tried to label anyone who speaks up as a “radical right wing extremist.”

By dismissing the anger of conservatives, moderates, libertarians, conservative democrats  and independents the administration looks out of touch and appallingly arrogant. In fact, it will hurt them even more because Obama promised to listen to the concerns of the citizens, not operate with a tin ear.

Some Dem’s have gone so far as to actually compare protestors with Nazis and claim all protests are fabricated:

Replacing a town hall meeting for a conference call in his district, Rep. Brian Baird, D-Wash., on Thursday compared his constituents’ behavior to Nazi-era adherents.

“What we’re seeing right now is close to Brown Shirt tactics,” Baird told a local newspaper. “I mean that very seriously.”

In an interview Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said of the protesters, “I think they are astroturf, you be the judge,” using an expression that refers to orchestrated grassroots.

Now then, let me say this:  I am a registered Republican and I have yet to have anyone call me or email me and encourage me to go to a meeting, write a letter, make a call, or ANYTHING to express disapproval with the Democrat’s attempts to forge and force through a faulty health care plan.  It just HAS NOT HAPPENED.

So then, I write here in my blog about those things I agree with or disagree with, and I write what I think and feel, not what I am told to write.  Apparently though, I’m now being told that if I do express disagreement with the DNC and its plans for the country that I am either a Nazi or a puppet expressing the thoughts of someone else, and that if I stand up and say that these are my thoughts and feelings then I am apparently a liar too.

Ya know… I think need to change the opening of this post; I’m not angry – I’m disgusted. I work hard to make my life, the lives of my family, and the lives of those in my community better, because I am an American and that is what we do.  I am a disabled Veteran, I served my country and am disabled because of that service; and because of my sacrifice I feel I deserve a little more respect than to be spit upon by those who are supposed to be serving me.

Congress and the organizations that work with them are not there to dictate my life and cast aspersions upon me and the citizens of this country – they are there to serve the country.  Maybe they should re-read the constitution and re-think their reasons for being in office.