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By pm317 on August 10, 2009 at 10:15 PM in Current Affairs

I don’t have much else to add to what Leah from New Hampshire, C-SPAN caller says. Here we go:

This is democracy in action — Leah gets it and the questioner in the next video gets it.
The video shows the same town hall meeting with GA Rep Scott with a question from another constituent. Notice there is no sign of a mob or disruption. But of course the congressman acts as if there is because he has no good and substantive answers to their questions.

[HT to Hillaryis44 for the videos]

While that is going on around the country, the hired clowns from the Hill, Pelosi and Hoyer have written an op-ed in the USA Today where they are branding people looking for answers as Un-American. Now when did dissent or information-seeking become Un-American? Is this a new version of “you’re with us or with them” or “if you’re not with us, you’re not patriotic”? According to Pelosi and Hoyer, protesting a non-answer or cop out by politicians in these town hall meetings is unacceptable and un-American while they turn a blind eye to the havoc caused by their own people. The disruptions in recent town hall meetings if you notice came from Obama supporters, for instance, the SEIU thugs roughing up a black man (see video below, and then getting arrested, see at 2:44 marker). For people who did not pay attention to the Democratic party primary, this is what happened pretty much in every caucus, including Iowa with the intimidation from Obama thugs on Hillary supporters. It is not much of a surprise to me that they are resorting to their time tested method of suppressing opposition through these vile means.

Obama and his supporters do not know how to propose major legislation; they don’t know how to build trust and support among their voters and constituents for it; they don’t know how to deal with opposition. So far they have lost the battle with message control and are aggressively going after their own voters. That is NOT democracy.