ObamaCare: The grassroots are always greener

The same people who spent 8 years under Bush astroturfing, rebelling, screaming, protesting, disrupting, throwing pies, interjecting political screeds at every and any opportunity publicly and privately, and “organizing and mobilizing” – using the same tactics only in a well-funded top-down, point-and-march fashion – are now crying about having to deal with grassroots political opposition?

And the people voicing their rightfully angry opinions are “mobs” and “astroturfers” and “dangerous?”

The Democratic left spent decades making this bed and perfecting the art of OUTRAGE!@! and the last eight years (2 with their boys in Congress) implementing it, and now that the counterculture has become the mainstream, look at how they react the formation and organization of the new counterculture. They don’t want to sleep in the bed they made and prided themselves on making.

Petty little tyrants, each and every one of them. Their political day of reckoning is coming, and they know it. Their legacy and ambitious “progressive” agenda is in the process of being scuttled. You can’t flip off 49%+ of the nation, tell them they’re getting socialism no matter what they think AND that they’re going to fund it with their blood, sweat and tears, and expect nothing to happen.

“THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE.”

Remember that rallying cry, libs?

You’re the ones who spent eight years screaming it.

Now taste the sweet, sweet karma as we remind you what democracy looks like.

Good Lt on August 4, 2009 at 3:06 PM

When unions organize their astroturfed, well-funded protests (complete with mass-printed signs and slogans and t-shirts), why isn’t it called astroturfing? When Democrats protest and organize and transfer $$$ around to their causes online, why is it called “revolutionary?”

Remember all the hoopla the media made about Obama’s “online activism and organization?”

Guess it’s not so vogue anymore now that the opposition is using the Internet to organize, is it?

Good Lt on August 4, 2009 at 3:16 PM

She’s the equivalent of the Nazi leading the masses into the gas chambers and bodies to the ovens.

Are you Josh Marshall at TPM or something?

Good Lt on August 4, 2009 at 3:34 PM

So long as AnninCA holds the bullhorn, pistol and electric prodding iron, so long as she lines her pockets with ill-gotten tax funds, she feels smug in her indulgent line of self-defense. “It was my job. I had no choice but to follow Obama’s orders.”

No one bought it from the Nazi. No one’s buying it now.

Um, OK. Enough with the Nazi stuff, chums.

It’s disgusting, and it minimizes what the Nazis actually were, which were brutal, psychotic jackbooted killers, and it’s an insult to Holocaust victims who died under them.

Pointing out the rank hypocrisy and double-standards of the Democrats with their own words and deeds is more than adequate.

Yes?

Good Lt on August 4, 2009 at 3:43 PM

1) No, I am not.
2) When did I ever make reference to anti-reform rioters? Never. I advocate strong, peaceful/non-violent demonstrations.
3) When a legislator at a Townhall meeting stupidly refuses to answer a question he knows is going to be asked with the best information at his disposal, as is his duty to his constituents, that legislator deserves the public ire and ballot wrath that he spawns.

Calm down – it was a joke and a rib at Josh Marshall.

But in seriousness, I don’t think calling Democrats Nazis is either accurate or good politics. We can beat them on issues and on their own rhetoric – it doesn’t mean you can’t be angry. It just means that they’re not psychopathic jackbooted anti-Semitic killers who throw people into death camps. They’re not, and it diminishes the evil of the Nazis to equate the two.

That’s all.

Good Lt on August 4, 2009 at 4:01 PM