Marine blasts Brian Baird
Town halls aren’t happy occasions for Democrats these days. Whenever they attend one and try to explain their support for far-left policies, they get booed off stage.
Rep. Brian Baird (D-Wash.) experienced the above first hand recently. A marine corps veteran truly blasted him and Democrats in general. Their plans, their support for big government and last but not least their angry rhetoric aimed at whomever dares oppose their plans.
Baird is one of those who recently labelled those who oppose Obamas plans “brown shirts.” The veteran confronted Baird with that insult and then turned things around. The Nazis, he said, were national socialists. They took over health care, education, the car industry. They did not support free market policies. They wanted the government to control everything.
Now, the comparisons between Democrats and Nazis are, like comparisons between Republicans and Nazis, way out there. Neither American party is nazi – and all comments to the contrary should be dismissed out of hand.
But, the vet’s anger is understandable. Pelosi, Baird, Reid, Obama and many other Democrats have proved completely incapable of respecting critics. This vet defended his country only to hear himself be compared to the nazis because he opposes socialized medicine. That would anger me too.
In any case, the best way forward, of course, is for both sides to drop the angry rhetoric. There’s no use in it. Shouting, swearing, insulting produces no good results.
Lastly, most impressive and interesting about the video (published below) of the marine blasting Baird is the reaction of the audience. They support the vet, not the politician. In the end they give him a standing ovation. It’s yet another sign of the incredible low level of support for the Democrats’ health care plans.
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I never do this but if you want to see a moonbat in action.
go to theguntotingliberal.com and watch a mr. Bad Dog do his thing.
As for the shouting. I continue to opine that the reason the democrats were so angry over the war is because their voices were IGNORED by BUSH and Company. He basically said he was going to do things his way.
Now the roles are reversed. The democrats are telling the GOP that their voices dont matter and dont count. Essentially we all understand in the end that the democrats will simply ram rod a health care plan thru congress and those of us who dont like it have no recourse.
GWB showed us how NOT to do something and now Barak Obama and the democrats have learned well and are returning the favor.
What goes around comes around and maybe, just maybe when this has all played itself out and 2010 arrives perhaps we as a country will have learned how NOT to do something.
These “Far-Left” policies come from the top down; the defacto head of the democrat Party is Barack Obama and all those below him follow his lead.
Democrats don’t want gub’mint to control anything? What about control of the auto industry?
The insurance industry? The medical sector? The energy sector?
Who wants to tell you what kind of light bulbs you should use? What kind of vehicle you should drive and how much you should drive it?
The standing ovationwas for one American who stood up and did his duty, he served his country and he protested the Gub’mint.
The “low level of support” is for democrats in general.
1980 and 1994 are going to replay themselves as “those who ignore the lessons of History, will reap what they sow in the future”.
And speaking of “angry” rhetoric,, how about the following:
“When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation”.
and by the way, many of the OTHER party are quite useful idiots and not much better. And a few of that OTHER party sound much like the first party.