Here’s one of the astroturfing mob telling us what she really thinks
A New Hampshire member of the mob weighs in with a fine rant:
And if that whetted your appetite for more, here’s a great video from Flopping Aces:
Love the use of the Hillary audio; you go, girl! Tell ’em the mob sent you.
I’m on a dial-up modem so I don’t usually take the time to listen to embedded video; But, boy was this first one so worth it!
Leah from NH – spot on in everything she says. Gotta love that New England no-nonsense attitude; especially when she says that her congressmen want to do “that phoney telephone thing”!
Leah(a name I’ve always liked), from Manchester, NH. WOW! She ought to run for office. She had just the right amount of controlled outrage and was SO succinct, without even one verbal slip-up — yet it was obvious that it was unrehearsed and NOT read from prepared notes. I liked how she did not let the “moderator’s” attempt to stop her trip her up or cause any hesitation. THIS will go viral very easily.
Who was the young guy to the left of the moderator? He looked ready to jump out of his skin several times.
I was wondering if he had just spent fifteen minutes defending Obama/Pelosi/Reid for the tv audience.
As indicated previously, demonizing Palin and Bush is feasible, but doing so to a whole segment of the population is not. Leah knows she wasn’t paid off, and is not a Republican operative. Impugning her integrity on top of pushing policies she opposes has fired her up with righteous indignation. Multiply that by hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, and the Dems are in deep trouble for 2010. Not a desperately clever strategy on the Dems’ part.
You know, hitting the pavement for McCain (a sort of conservative) after Bush (a sort of conservative)…. didn’t seem like a great idea…. but after a few months of Obama… I’m lowering my standards for republicans. If they could manage to run someone who wasn’t a squish, it’s all wide open to them IMO… Because this su*ks.
I have to think that these “angry mobs” (sarcasm off) are making quite an impression on the legislators who are hosting these town halls, whether they admit it or not.
They know the general tone and volume of feedback they usually get from their constituents, and they can tell when people are genuinely pissed off. Regardless of accusations of right wing-funded “astroturfing,” etc.
I’m betting these elected officials KNOW righteous indignation when they hear it, and those who are up for reelection must be quaking in their shoes right now.
I hope.
I pray that our system of government protects us to some extent from this nightmare of an administration, and that independents and conservative Dems play a role in restoring some checks and balances by voting accordingly in 2010 and 2012.
This story made me chuckle a few times. 🙂
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/10/AR2009081003126.html?g=0
Now ! I can’t stop laughing !
http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2009/08/11/move-over-joe-gaffetastic-obama-is-hot-on-your-heels/
Here’s an active thread going on at GCP about Obama’s so-called town hall meeting today. As one commenter said, it was “Kabuki theater.” The level of manipulation is thoroughly disgusting.
Let me try that link again:
http://www.grouchyconservativepundits.com/index.php?topic=2764.0
Just in from the DailyKos:
This woman caller was an Aetna paid plant who is also a lead character in the birther movement. When she’s not “carrying swastikas” she can often be found down at the GOP “political terrorist” camp.
Vieux Charles,
Now THAT was funny. That is exactly what they do over there.
Even the threads at MSM blogs are filled with people pissed off about this healthcare thing. I spent an hour reading comments over at ABC News… its 90% against.
Leah from New Hampshire — Speaking Truth To Power.
I would like to think the reception the pols are getting at their townhall’s would mean something, would change their willingness to sign off on this mess, but I don’t. As soon as they get back safely inside the beltway of D.C. the dem leadership will start the hardball tactics and bring them back under control. But if they do push this and Cap and Trade through, 2010 could be a blood bath.
“Who was the young guy to the left of the moderator? He looked ready to jump out of his skin several times.”
Huxley, I wondered the same thing. He definitely looked uncomfortable didn’t he?
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/11/little-girl-at-obama-town-hall-has-not-so-random-political-connections/
It looks like the Dims are making a cold-blooded calculation that it won’t hurt them too badly to “let the dogs bark, as the caravan passes on.”
They figure that with the big media in their Amen Corner, the much-smaller number of folks who get wised up on the blogosphere won’t amount to much. They’re getting their media claque to spin it against the protesters (actually, the media idiots are eager to do it without any prompting), and that’s ALL that most voters will see.
It worked to get the Marxist, former muslim, current racist jackass elected, so they reckon they can get away with blue murder. And they will, too.
Note how the latest distraction, the ginned-up outrage over Karl Rove’s alleged involvement in firing nine prosecutors (Clinton fired over 90 or something with nary a peep), is the latest BS designed to divert …
Oh, look, a squirrel!
I do not understand how Paglia (see Drudge to run down her article) could like Obama at all, being a libertarian as she says. She thinks he is great on foreign policy?!?! Sure, Paglia. I am glad to hear that someone who at least has access to main stream press is also finally saying Pelosi needs to go. Some of that botox has leaked through into her frontal lobe.
In the first video Leah said, “The congressman is afraid”! That got a laugh out of me!
As for Paglia, I like a lot of things she says, but she’s an idealist. She may want Pelosi to go, but a realist would realize that almost everybody else doesn’t and Pelosi will stay.
I’ve come to the conclusion that this is a “political suicide attack” by the Left. They know they will still get their pensions and perks if unelected in 2010, but we will never be able to overturn a Socialized Healthcare network.
I do not understand how Paglia (see Drudge to run down her article) could like Obama at all, being a libertarian as she says.
See Salon for Paglia article.
Paglia writes well, but I don’t take her seriously. She runs on her enthusiasms and contrarianism — whatever persons or subjects that go beyond the conventional, possess panache and can keep her audience guessing. For instance, she champions Palin as well as Obama.
But when she nails something, she nails it.
I keep wondering how the scales don’t fall from her eyes about Obama, as when she writes, as in her second paragraph: I must confess my dismay bordering on horror at the amateurism of the White House apparatus for domestic policy.
It seems she always attributes Obama’s failings to his underlings or Congress, never to the man himself.
The brains at the White House have morphed from Health Care “Reform” to Health Insurance “Reform”. If they had been smart enough to do this from the beginning it might have had more traction. But let me be cliche here –
The cat is out of the bag.
The train has left the station.
Too little too late
And there could be many more.
As far as the Kiddie Card goes (I looked at the link Baklava put up to MM.com) it reminds me of the ad campaign down here in Florida to ban (outlaw) smoking in restaurants. The most prevalent ads were the one’s featuring children saying things like, “When I am in a restaurant where there is smoking I feel like I can’t breathe. I feel sick”
No one stopped to think the child’s parents might consider taking their child to a different restaurant – and letting the manager (or owner) know why. In other words – let the market take care of it. Instead the play on people’s emotions.
I can only say that occasionally a government program does work. When they do they are shut down – like the DC school voucher program – where a child could get a great education at a private school for half the cost of the miserable public school education – because the arrogant SOBs in the heady air of Washington look to make us all equal – even if we are all equal in our misery.
Did anyone read Ruth Marcus today at WaPo? I normally don’t read her, but she is starting to notice that Obama can’t deliver on his promises.
Generally speaking, Paglia’s commentary is characterized by a striking intellectual honesty. It sounds like she is beginning to connect the dots regarding Obama and more power to her. Hope it continues.
That said, those who voted for Obama (as Paglia admits up front) still have to justify their decision to themselves and others, even as the man reveals more and more of his true colors. Hence her commentary still includes such head-scratchers as “Obama is just great at foreign policy—much better than Bush!” or “when are heads going to roll in the White House? Why is Obama letting his team screw up like this” (paraphrasing of course).
In time Paglia may come around completely. Maybe she is, as Krauthammer put it, in “quiet recovery” along with many other Dems.
Excuse my language but WTH does parental “Education” have to do with health “Insurance” reform?
I am posting here since this is yet another reason to be mad as hell.
Who else but Chuck Norris brings that point home with a vengeance. Unlike our lawmakers, he’s apparently actually read the House bill and found another nugget that is not only costly and none of the government’s business, but has nothing to do with health insurance reform.
Dirty Secret No. 1 in Obamacare
by Chuck Norris
It’s outlined in sections 440 and 1904 of the House bill (Page 838), under the heading “home visitation programs for families with young children and families expecting children.” The programs (provided via grants to states) would educate parents on child behavior and parenting skills.
The bill says that the government agents, “well-trained and competent staff,” would “provide parents with knowledge of age-appropriate child development in cognitive, language, social, emotional, and motor domains … modeling, consulting, and coaching on parenting practices,” and “skills to interact with their child to enhance age-appropriate development.”
You can read it all at TownHall.
http://townhall.com/columnists/ChuckNorris/2009/08/11/dirty_secret_no_1_in_obamacare
And they wonder why middle America is mad as hell and out protesting. All the while pretending that this bill is something other than what it is — an attempt to impose more government control over our lives — is only going to feed that anger. This is part of what those protesters are talking about when they say they’re tired of being lied too and tired of being lied about.
John,
They have to do something with all those remedial reading students that Obama wants to give degrees to.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/08/beware_of_fake_hate_crimes.asp
Sounds fishy to me too. I saw the Yahoo story and knew right away. There is nobody on our side who would think this stuff would be pursuasive or helpful.
Only a 17 year old kid would do such a thing. And why now? The timing is too coincidental.
“We would like to apologize for the way in which politicians are represented in this programme.
“It was never our intention to imply that politicians are weak-kneed, political time-servers who are more concerned with their personal vendettas and private power struggles than the problems of government, nor to suggest at any point that they sacrifice their credibility by denying free debate on vital matters in the mistaken impression that party unity comes before the well-being of the people they supposedly represent, nor to imply at any stage that they are squabbling little toadies without an ounce of concern for the vital social problems of today.
“Nor indeed do we intend that viewers should consider them as crabby ulcerous little self-seeking vermin with furry legs and an excessive addiction to alcohol and certain explicit sexual practices which some people might find offensive. We are sorry if this impression has come across.”
— Monty Python
Heh.
Wow, I’m in a real thread fight with a socialist lefty on the youtube site. Batman apparantly doesn’t like Leah or Americans in general. Criticizing socialized medicine certainly brings out the kooks.
“But if they do push this and Cap and Trade through, 2010 could be a blood bath.”
More likely, if they do push this and Cap & Trade through, you’ll know they no longer have any fear of elections.