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| Steyn Sez Obama Takes His Lumps |
| 2009-08-10 |
| "DISSENT IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF PATRIOT"... . No, wait, that bumper sticker expired Jan. 20. Under the stimulus bill, there's a new, $1.3 trillion bills-for-bumpers program whereby if you peel off old slogans now recognized as environmentally harmful ("QUESTION AUTHORITY") you can trade them in for a new "CELEBRATE CONFORMITY" sticker, complete with a holographic image of President Obama that never takes his eyes off you. "The right-wing extremist Republican base is back!" warns the Democratic National Committee. These right-wing extremists have been given their marching orders by their masters: They've been directed to show up at "thousands of events," told to "organize," "knock on doors". . . . No, wait. My mistake. That's the e-mail I got from Mitch Stewart, director of Organizing for America at BarackObama.com. But that's the good kind of "organizing." President Obama is a community organizer. We're the community. He organizes us. What part of that don't you get? When the community starts organizing against the organizer, the whole rigmarole goes to pieces. Not that these extremists showing up at town-hall meetings are real members of the "community." Have you noticed how tailored they are? Dissent is now the hautest form of couturism. Sen. Barbara Boxer, California Democrat, has denounced dissenters from Mr. Obama's health care proposals as too "well-dressed" to be genuine. Only the emperor has new clothes. Everyone knows that. Decrying the snarling, angry protesters, liberal talk-show host Bill Press (no relation to the Corby Trouser Press) says, "Americans want serious discussion" on health care. If only we'd stuck to the president's August timetable and passed a gazillion-page health care reform entirely unread by the House of Representatives or the Senate (the world's greatest deliberative body) in nothing flat, we would have all the time in the world to sit around having a "serious discussion" and "real debate" on whatever it was we just did to one-sixth of the economy. But a sick, deranged, un-American mob has put an end to all that moderate and reasonable steamrollering by showing up and yelling insane, out-of-control questions like, "Awfully sorry to bother you, your Most Excellent Senatorial Eminence, but I was wondering if you could tell me why you don't read any of the laws you make before you make them into law?" The community is restless. The firm hand of greater organization is needed. |
| Posted by:Bobby |