That moment in The Great Obamacare War arrived yesterday, when the Speaker of the House stood firm on the public option, essentially telling the White House to go pound sand.
In effect, Speaker Pelosi just called in an air-strike on her own position.
This is not going to be pretty.
It will likely cost her the Speakership. After the 2010 elections.
Once again, Senator Barbara “Ma’am” Boxer displays how mind-numbingly stupid she thinks the American public is:
Imagine ordinary people showing up for meetings with their elected representatives dressed in good clothes! Maybe they just wanted to look nice and show some respect for whom they were meeting with. Wait, this can’t be – ordinary people dress down to meet with government officials. Well, what about protesters in her own jurisdiction? Gay Patriot points out to the Senator that by her standards any of her dressed-down protesting constituents must have an independent viewpoint (click on the link to see the photos mentioned in the quote below):
Now, if Ma’am claims the protesters are too well-dressed to be sincere, let me show her a few pictures from protests in her own jurisdiction, i.e., California (taking at the April 15 Tea Parties in Santa Monica and Van Nuys). Since they’re not wearing suits and ties, will she now take these protesters seriously?
Unfortunately by echoing the already failed “evil insurance companies and republicans are agitating against Obamacare” meme, Senator Boxer’s staggeringly limited intelligence is on display again. Look Babs, here’s a clue: Americans are very skeptical about Obamacare and don’t want it shoved down their throats. Read the polls. Do your job and talk with your constituents.
The elected and unelected officials in the White House and Congress and their useful idiots in the media who are attempting to propagate the ridiculous “outside agitators” myth can’t even fabricate a credible story. Allahpundit’s post at Hotair titled Revealed: Left’s dishonesty about Republican “mobs” somehow even worse than thought sums it up:
So it came to be that a guy no one’s heard of, who created a memo that was sent to 10 people, who once wrote a single post for a site that’s not even formally connected to a major conservative group, and who’s not even a Republican became the evil mastermind behind a national Republican conspiracy to “manufacture outrage” at town halls from coast to coast.
They really do think we’re stupid, and that through media manipulation using a transparently absurd story we’ll all fall in line. Hey Babs (and Senator Specter and others) – do you really hold us in that much contempt?
UPDATE: Exurban League has published a handy guide to Boxer-appropriate protest-wear!