A Confederacy of Nitwits
Who the hell are these people? It's not the lunatic fringe that's against health care reform, it's the idiot fringe. More specifically, an idiot fringe with neither information nor manners.
In recent weeks, Congresswoman Jackie Speier has held two Health Care Reform Town Hall meetings here in her California district. At the first of these meetings, one aging, bellicose shouter from Half Moon Bay, California, apparently just in from his barstool at the VFW, had no question but went on a five minute tirade about the government trying to take away our guns.
At the second meeting, a young guy from Daly City, California, proclaimed (actually spat in anger) that our government is based on the Declaration of Independence and that nowhere in that document does it say anything about health care, and that further, it doesn't doesn't give congress the right to make laws. He also noted that the public schools couldn't teach him to read, so his mother home-schooled him. Based on the evidence, she may have been qualified to teach reading, but not history and government.
In the news this morning, a protester at a Health Care Town Hall holds up a copy of what he calls "the U.S.S. Constitution," proclaims that he's read it three times and he can't find where it says the government has the right to provide health care. No mention of whether he was home-schooled or not. At the same event, a woman yelled that "our government comes from god" and that "the Jews walked through the desert for 40 years and their sandals didn't wear out." Which, I guess, must in some way argue against health care reform.
Where do these people get their information? Hmmm. From the media? Yesterday, a TV anchor belittled a 44 year-old congressman for not being on Medicare. Or from elected officials? Over the weekend, it was reported that Senator Harry Reid, is for the "public option" so long as it's "private." Harry, honey, read up on this health care reform business. Oh yeah, and pull out the dictionary and check the definitions for public and private. They're both under P. Or didn't your mom teach you that?
In recent weeks, Congresswoman Jackie Speier has held two Health Care Reform Town Hall meetings here in her California district. At the first of these meetings, one aging, bellicose shouter from Half Moon Bay, California, apparently just in from his barstool at the VFW, had no question but went on a five minute tirade about the government trying to take away our guns.
At the second meeting, a young guy from Daly City, California, proclaimed (actually spat in anger) that our government is based on the Declaration of Independence and that nowhere in that document does it say anything about health care, and that further, it doesn't doesn't give congress the right to make laws. He also noted that the public schools couldn't teach him to read, so his mother home-schooled him. Based on the evidence, she may have been qualified to teach reading, but not history and government.
In the news this morning, a protester at a Health Care Town Hall holds up a copy of what he calls "the U.S.S. Constitution," proclaims that he's read it three times and he can't find where it says the government has the right to provide health care. No mention of whether he was home-schooled or not. At the same event, a woman yelled that "our government comes from god" and that "the Jews walked through the desert for 40 years and their sandals didn't wear out." Which, I guess, must in some way argue against health care reform.
Where do these people get their information? Hmmm. From the media? Yesterday, a TV anchor belittled a 44 year-old congressman for not being on Medicare. Or from elected officials? Over the weekend, it was reported that Senator Harry Reid, is for the "public option" so long as it's "private." Harry, honey, read up on this health care reform business. Oh yeah, and pull out the dictionary and check the definitions for public and private. They're both under P. Or didn't your mom teach you that?
