Grand Kleagle Dingle
Okay, my Democrat meme detector is going up, I smell an orchestrated campaign; if you don’t support health-care reform YOU’RE A RACIST! It was bad enough when Stoyer and Pelosi called us “un-American”, but to now liken us to the Ku Klux Klan is just going too far. However, that is exactly what Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) stated. He says that the last time he saw anything like this was during the 1960s when he voted in favor of the Civil Rights Bill (dude, you have been in politics way way way to long) and the Klan was causing a furor. Let’s go to the tape:
Town-Hall Protesters are like the Klan
Sen. Byrd was unavailable for comment.
If this was an isolated incident, eh, I could probably write it off as an old cook who has been leaching off his public position for way too long. However, this exact same thing has been suggested by other Democrat strategists this week, suggesting that Socialism is just codeword for the “N” word. Is this the message the Democrats really want to get out as the popularity of the President and his health-care program keep going down? Do they really want to call all those who disagree with them (a number rising every day) Klan members? This is just beyond the pale, but not really unexpected.
August 11th, 2009 at 11:57 am
The K*K was nothing more than a militant arm of the Democratic Party. So he must have been talking about the ACORN and Union representatives in the audience.
August 11th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
It is time for these career nitwits to be retired. Dingell is what 179 years old. TERM LIMITS FOLKS. WE NEED TERM LIMITS.
Can you just imagine what would happen if a Republican had said the “K” word. Plus Dingell is a ding-a-ling because the KKK was started by the Democrats not the Republicans. Ask Robert KKK Bryd.
I would say Michigan deserves him but there are some good conservatives there. Even though the Dems have raped and pillaged the state.
August 11th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Dingell is the longest-serving member in House history. I’d say it’s time for him to hang it up.
August 11th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Yes…he needs to go. His remarks are not only offensive, they are inflammatory. Wonder what they’re going to call us next ?
August 11th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
The sophomore in me wants to make fun of Dingell’s name but I won’t.
Aren’t Dems the same ones who said it was patriotic to protest the war? So let me get this straight, protesting an issue and providing validation to those groups are trying to kill American soldiers is patriotic, but protesting the complete and total disregard for federalism and the Constitution is un-patriotic? Just want to make sure I am understanding this correctly.
August 11th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Well, you are in overdrive calling us NAZ!S, so what in hell is the problem with us calling you members of of the K*K?
August 11th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Now the DNC is deploying AFL-CIO palookas while at the same time hypocritically dismissing Obamacare opponents as paid shills, N#zis, KKK, what have you -even running TV ads to slander them- and delirious SanFranNan is seeing imaginary Swastikas.
This should make clear to anyone just what these power-drunk elitists think of your opinion.
Note that whenever Obama, Emanuel, or Gibbs are asked about why polls show SO many people oppose their misguided Cap-n-Trade and Obamacare proposals, they ALWAYS segue-right-into “we need to educate the public…”.
LOL- save your breath… Constitutionally-aware American patriots don’t take lectures from Marxists.
August 11th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Now just wait a damn minute, Ryan. It is not true that “Democrats said it was patriotic to protest the war.” As I remember, there was a great deal of bipartisan solidarity after 9/11, and the Democrats supported the War in Iraq, at first. It was only later that questions were raised.
See, this is what you on the Right try to do. Oh, of course, YOU are the only ones who love your country, YOU are the only ones who are patriotic, etc., etc.
YOU MAKE ME SICK. The only thing patriotic about you and your ilk is the dollar sign.
August 11th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Was it just me or was that town hall meeting with not a single protestor a little scripted.
August 11th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
“The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out
of other people’s money.”
—Margaret Thatcher
August 11th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
#5
hmmm…someone has anger issues…time to pop another pill
August 11th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
I don’t recall Dems supporting the war or giving the US the benefit of the doubt where I live in Northern California.
I remember from day 1 the anger and hatred of Bush and the numerous and frequent protests by many.
I remember sitting in a theater watching the previews for a movie where a commercial was played about joining the marines and some woman yelled at the screen about how stupid the marine was and to go ahead and get himself killed.
I remember walking down Van Ness and Market Streets (main streets in San Francico) with a Bush is H1tler or evil posting on nearly every pole.
I remember numerous rallies against the US going into Iraq and support of the French position (…and we subsequently found out the French position was based on its preferential contracts with Saddam and not on principle).
I remember coming out of the Muni and be inundated with numerous leaflets misrepresenting the US position and Bush.
I remember passing by street corners daily with radical libs on microphones preaching about how we were killing innocent people daily.
I remember protesters with signs of baby killers and death to Bush.
I remember a lot more shameful and disingenuous activity but think I have stated enough to prove my point.
August 11th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
I would think people would support health care reform for the goodies it will bring them. I like the idea of a public payor option as it will force the private insurers to compete better and also clean up all the funny accounting fraud in health care now. I would choose a private plan if the costs were reasonable, even if they were a bit more than the public option. According to an ex-lobbyist for Signa health plans he says the private insurers could compete effectively with the governement. I say its worth a try as what we have now is unsustainable and I have watched the quality and comprehensiveness of my private health insurance go down each of the past several years, copays are higher, some medications are no longer covered, and even weirder more specialists are refusing even the private insurers when they can get away with it as its not worth the hassle to them. Meanwhile premiums keep going up. I have seen it. and that is not even talking about pre existing conditions, or being dumped from a policy. I don’t get all this ideology from the right so against improving a bad situation. Clearly the health insurance lobby has effectively gotten a noisy anti-media campaign going on that is duplicitous. Even canada has good health care and all the distortions about it are just plain lies. worst, most of you who think that you are part of the power structure are just kidding yourself. they just want you to think that, and if you have a steady job with a good outfit, are healthy, you feel pretty immune from much of the problem. But the problem is coming your way anyways, no matter where you work or what you do. to me its just good business and national sense to deal with this growing problem. to ignore creaking floorboards that are starting to drop into the cellar makes no sense.
August 12th, 2009 at 12:31 am
Klo-
I never said that there wasn’t solidarity after 9/11. What I said was that once the protests started the Dems claimed that they were being patriotic by protesting, and screamed and yelled if anyone dared to claim that their protests were unpatriotic. The typical response was that they were being patriotic by protesting because it was their right.
Now the Dems are making the same claim that any protest is unpatriotic and that these protests are out of line. Seems kind of funny to me.
August 12th, 2009 at 12:38 am
those are two totally different things. why even compare 911 to our multidecade “thought” of the need for health care reform? I am not a dem, but when I learned how much shenaniganned I had been had by the bush team as we “invaded” iraq uninvited I began to realize my own collective guilt in being enmeshed as part of a nation on the prowl to do a bunch of invading and killin of foreigners we had no ties with. so then I became against the war outside of it being a black hole to suck al queda into. Its all a bad business. look what we did to our troops, its unconcienable. but health care is totally different, a domestic issue of pocketbook and necessity and hopefully choice. but paid professional lobbiests from the health insurance industry are packing the town halls with unemployed shills, who under scrutiny don’t ring true in too many cases. They are told to raise hell at these meetings to shut the good people down and scare them away. Its evil. they aren’t joe and jane average citizen.
August 12th, 2009 at 3:30 am
Would it be unpatriotic to protest Klo?
August 12th, 2009 at 7:36 am
Okay for all of you who want to have ObamaCare think about this.
If you have 1000 people all wanting say a Hamburger. And he hamburger cost $1.00 but 900 of those people wanting a burger don’t want to pay for it. So the 100 that are willing to pay suddenly find out that $1.00 burger is now $10. And sometime in the very near future that $10 burger will become $20 and Uncle Barry will put a tax on it so now that $1.00 burger is $27.00. The 900 are happy cause they get a $27 burger for nothing but the 100 paying see their cost going up and up. And all the while the 900 are complaining they would also like a drink and fries with their free $27 burger. And now the cost for all of that is $100.
Do you really believe having government run health care will be better and cheaper?
Postage for a first class letter in 1969 was $0.06. The cost has risen to $0.44 today. That is an increase of 733%. In 1999 it was $0.33. It has increased 133% in 10 years. At that rate, in 2019 it will cost $0.59 cents.
If we all really want cheap insurance and cheaper health care we need to elimate all employer provider coverage including all governement except for the military. Make is illegal for the government to have any type of health insurance. They want to do to health care what they have done for the post office.
Let the employer take the money they pay for that insurance and give it to the employee to pay for their own coverage. Like they do for car and home.
We would see the cost drop like the stock market did when Barry said, ” I Will.”
Then there will be competition for your business and now that burger is affordable for everyone including the 900 that will spend money on everything but a burger.
I am tried of paying for the 900. I pay mine. You pay yours and stop whining.
August 12th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
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