Posted by
Steve on Monday, August 10, 2009 10:25:05 AM
The Democrats cannot take criticism. When the protests against the socialist takeover of our healthcare system began, the Democrats sat in stunned silence. Then, they started crying that it was unfair. Their next tactic was to declare that the protesters were Nazi’s or Nazi sympathizers. Their next tactic was to pack the rooms with people that supported the takeover of the healthcare system and union thugs. All of those tactics did not work and just dug the Democrats into a deeper hole. What are they to do?
If you think that I am going to answer that question, you have another thing coming. My thought and one that I gleaned from Mike Broomhead of KFYI is to let the loony left have their chance to speak. The more that they speak; the deeper they dig a hole that it will be difficult to get out of. The harder it is for them to get out of the hole, the better I like it.
In all the reports from the Townhall meetings between the Representatives and the people, the worst has to be the meeting in St. Louis, MO. That is where the meeting was packed with people from SEIU, a powerful union. When people protested that they were not being let into the meeting, the union thugs decided to beat up the people that objected to having their Constitutional rights trampled. The worst part of that report is that the police on duty for crowd control did nothing to stop the union people from beating up the elderly people objecting.
There is no bigger supporter of the police than me. I was a Deputy Sheriff in Colorado for four years. I also worked part-time in North Dakota as a policeman. To say I support the police is an understatement. I know that if I had been on duty, the union people would have been going to jail with a felony assault on the record. Any policeman that I have known and any department that I have had contact with would not condone the police standing by and allowing innocent citizens to be beaten up. Any department that I have had contact with would have fired the policemen in question as soon as the report got in. They would not have put them on leave awaiting an investigation into the incident. That kind of conduct smells of corruption and corruption cannot be allowed at all, ever. It is like the 1930’s in Chicago, New York or Boston, where the mob ran the police. I am not sure where this incident will lead. But, if there is footage of the police standing by while the beatings took place, I look for heads to roll. The heads will be the police that stood by and the police leaders that told them not to interfere with the union actions. If there is a connection between SEIU and the police union, then all involved should go to jail for corruption and racketeering as well as conspiracy to commit assault. Since this is a Democrat run state, I do not look for much to happen. Democrats are good at covering up their messes. If the tape gets out of the police standing by, then something will have to happen.
We need to let the Democrats on the far left continue to have their say. The more they talk the better it is for our side. If they ever shut up, then we have to do the heavy lifting. In this issue, the heavy lifting will be easy. People like their medical care. They want some tweaks to make it better. They do not want wholesale changes that will make everything worse. That is why this is not selling for the Democrats. They thought the idea of covering everyone would sell, and it hasn’t. It hasn’t because people like the insurance plans they currently have. The plan the Democrats are proposing will make most of them change insurance coverage. If the Democrats had come up with something that just addressed covering the uninsured, the plan would already be in place. But, the Democrats saw an opportunity to have the whole loaf instead of the half loaf that covering everyone would have meant. Their greed was their undoing. Thank heaven for the greed of the left.
The worst part of this whole thing is that if the Democrats in Congress wanted to pass their health destruction plan, they could do so today. The problem is that it would mean that almost all of them would lose in 2010. They want some Republicans to give them cover so the debacle will not be so bad in 2010. So far, the Republicans have stood firm. Let’s hope they continue to do so. Standing on principle on this issue is a winning idea for 2010 and 2012.