IF YOU CAN'T SAY ANYTHING NICE...

"In recent weeks we have seen disruptions at town halls, mob hysteria, arrests, death threats, and remarks that border on treason. Those who should be in control of the GOP remain mute or, even worse, they bless the hordes that take up pitchforks to puncture the idea of health care reform.

Yes, boys and girls, the anti-government tea baggers are being ginned up anew to squelch the president's health care plan. Sara Palin recently spoke of an “Obama death panel” that would decide when and how her parents and disabled child would die. Newt Gingrich—who knows better—endorsed her nonsense. High Priest of the GOP Rush Limbaugh took time out from rattling the cage of the birthers to compare Obama Health to Hitler Health of the 1930s. Scary stuff..."
Fired Up Missouri

Using invective as her slight of hand Ms. Carnahan, as would any good grifter, has gotten her audience to take their eye off the ball. Trying to make the people that are protesting this massive, unconstitutional expansion of federal power look like mindless simpletons doing the bidding of their masters, she undermines her own credibility on the subject. Obviously, Ms. Carnahan cannot make a rational defense of the proposed healthcare debacle so she resorts to accusing those that oppose her party with the same sort of misbehavior that we have become accustomed to seeing from demonstrators on the left.

From students at Columbia attacking representatives of the Minutemen during a speech to Ann Coulter being assaulted with pies thrown in her face. The Coalition for Social Justice and Nonviolence attacks a student at Tufts University and a union thug beats a man to the ground at a Russ Carnahan town hall meeting. These are the sort of activities we have come to expect from the left.

The Tea Party protestors, on the other hand, have not committed any acts of violence. Even when SEIU enforcers have struck they have not struck back. They have used their cameras as weapons, posting videos of the attacks on the internet for all to see. Have they been loud, obnoxious and rude? Sure. Compared to the violence that we see from the left, I would think this would be a welcome respite from the norm.

While partisans on both sides of the issue gird their loins and sharpen their swords for battle our masters in Washington rub their hands in glee. As we fight each other they slowly and inexorably take from us our freedom and our wealth. They use these sideshows as cover, a slight of hand, if you will, to get us to take our eye off the ball. We don’t notice what they are doing to us and we expend our righteous anger on each other instead of them, biting and scratching to no effect.

If we don’t put aside our differences, if only for awhile, we will find ourselves slaves to our masters in Washington, chained to the plantation of our own creation, helpless, toiling to create wealth for others while we subsist on the scraps of the failed welfare state.