- Scott Miller
So we all know liberals are class A hypocrites by their very nature, but Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer took hypocrisy to an entirely new level when they penned a vicious attack on Americans who oppose government run healthcare. This from Fox News:
In a Tight Spot, Pelosi Calls Health Care Critics ‘Un-American’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi turned the health care debate up a notch Monday, penning a column along with her top deputy that questioned the patriotism of those disrupting town hall meetings to air their complaints.
Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer claimed such behavior is “simply un-American.”
“Let the facts be heard,” they wrote. “These disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differing views — but of the facts themselves. Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American. Drowning out the facts is how we failed at this task for decades.”
The “un-American” dig was a sign the debate is heating up. In a tight spot, Pelosi is known for employing tough rhetoric and accusations to muscle her way out.
Back in September 2008, Pelosi used similar language to complain about Republicans who weren’t showing up to talks on a Wall Street bailout package.
“I thought it was very unpatriotic of them not to show up, not to show up, in some ways, boycott the meetings earlier in the week,” she said.
So this is all we’ve heard from the Statists in Congress, Obama and his hacks, and Pravda for the past week as they desperately searched for a strategy to distract attention from the details of their healthcare plan. That the opposition to government run healthcare is manufactured, and that we are nothing buy shrill shills for the insurance lobby.
This from the party who came into power buy perfecting shrill. Remember Harry Reids, “This war is lost” assertion? Remember “Bush lied, Bush lied, Bush lied… our troops died”? Remember “Bush is trying to destroy Social Security” we he tried to partially privatized the program to save it from long term insolvency? But NOOOOO… that opposition was patriotic at the time. That rhetoric was AOK for the shrill left.
Remember this clip from Hillary?
Wonder what she thinks of the leaders of her party attacking those expressing genuine opposition to socializing American healthcare?
