"Plenty Of Heat & Light..."

I received an email this week from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee requesting a personal monetary contribution in order that this austere group (with my "much appreciated assistance") can continue to "stand up against a tiny, vocal minority of far-right fringe organizations" that have been riotously engaged in disrupting the democratic town hall meetings being conducted sporadically of late across America. Within the text of the message I looked diligently for a return comment location where I could express my heartfelt sentiments regarding their request. But nowhere was there a space where I could type, "Kiss My Ass!!" Please pardon me for resorting to such crude language, for as a rule I am by practice not usually quite so crass in expressing my opinions that differ from another's, electing instead to attempt to either rationally debate the issues in question or just shoot the person dead on the spot. However, having evaluated the personage and motives of these particular individuals, I still with gusto say, "They can pucker up and plant a big old wet one my conservative hindquarters on the courthouse steps and I'll even spot them twenty minutes to gather a crowd!"

The old adage, "Do as I say, not as I do" apparently holds no perceptible credence with the miscreants on the democratic left, as may be evidenced by a now conveniently ignored excerpt from a 2003 stump speech given by the then presidential candidate Hillary Rodam Clinton, who vehemently decried the accusation that any American who would dare criticize the Republican administration in office were "unpatriotic." And I quote... "I am sick and tired of people who say if you debate and disagree with this administration, some how you're not patriotic, and we should stand up and say we are Americans, that we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration..." Well, old gal, you got it right then...but why doesn't this same admonishment carry as much equal weight today?

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi apparently is of the contrary belief that such a right of free speech is to be granted only to those ideological faithful who march in lockstep with the current Democrat party's agenda. From Nancy's August 10th Washington news conference, I provide the following quote... "These disruptions" (emanating from the more vocal participants in the Town Hall meetings, voicing opposition to Obama's health care plan) "are occurring because opponents are afraid of not just differing opinions - but of the facts themselves. Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American." Excuse me, Ms. Pelosi, but here is a widely help observation that you can sink your partisan teeth into; whenever you open your mouth we rabble of un-patriotic dissidents automatically assume that you are lying through your capped teeth!

So vociferous have the opponents of the health care reform debate become that the White House has established a "war room" to advise Democrat congress members on how to combat dissension among their district constituents, and has also instituted a special email address ( Flag@whitehouse.gov. ) in order that citizens may report fellow citizens who speak out against the plan. If that doesn't speak of a Soviet Union KBG style tactic of opposition suppression, I don't know what does.

Press Secretary Robert Gibbs opined in sum that the uproar by a minority of dissidents represents "more heat than light." Apparently Mr. Gates has had few occasions to spend any time in the proverbial kitchen. He, along with his boss and the ideologues on The Hill, should come to grips with the realization that the ever increasing heat being generated by thousands upon thousands of grass-roots Americans, who believe their government is out of touch and out of control, is simmering into a bonfire that shall be fully ignited come the mid-term elections of 2010. Those who would choose to continue to label ordinary, hardworking Americans as un-patriotic for exercising their free speech right to voice disagreement with this administration had best start consulting the want ads in their local newspapers. They'll find that they are out of a job come next November.

I would suggest that they also save a spot for Mr. Obama in the unemployment line. He'll be joining you a couple of years there after.