I would have loved to have been at this little clambake. When MoveOn members showed up to protest in from of Texas Seanator John Cornyn’s office in Dallas, they found themselves heavily outnumbered by TEA Party protestors who were already there.
Anderson was stunned: “We really did not expect them to show up.” She estimated the crowd at about 130. “From our perspective we took names of everyone there, and we had about 30 people,” she told Unfair Park. “And I would assume they maybe had 100.” As it turned out, according to Jessica Sandlin, Cornyn’s Texas press secretary, Tea Party-hearties also showed up to health-care legislation rallies in Austin and in San Antonio; after the jump, you’ll find a statement from the senator concerning the day’s events.
Meanwhile, the person who organized the opposition in Dallas, one Q Coleman, a Tea Party member, estimated the crowd swelled to at least 200. “The vast majority of people here didn’t want this,” Coleman said. “We beat them 10 to 1. … We all agree that health care needs reform. We’re just opposed to the government taking it over.” (Sandlin writes in an e-mail to Unfair Park that “I think there were about 200 people in attendance — 20 of whom were affiliated with Moveon.”)
The childishness of the reasoning behind MoveOn was evident as well:
“I’m just amazed they are so strong in what their beliefs are,” Anderson said of the Tea Party members. “With people being without health care, it’s just hard to imagine people could be so against the plan [President] Obama is trying to put in place.”
People are losing health care for a simple reason – they are losing their jobs. Obama’s misguided “stimulus” is a flat out disaster and the economy is not turning around. Into this Obama and the folks at MoveOn want to inject more massive deficit spending, monster tax hikes and bureaucratically micromanage the most personal decisions of Americans.
Despite the echo chamber beliefs, myths and fantasies repeated as fact by the left, it is rather evident that the American people do not want what Obama is selling this time. I rather suspect they are more than a bit disappointed in what they already bought in November.
Anderson is amazed because of the way liberals tend to think. They are constantly repeating that a majority of Americans think just like they do on virtually every issue. If I had a dime (inflationary adjustment) for every time some liberal said, “A majority of Americans believe…..” I could retire tomortow – even in this Democrat damaged economy. Thjey say it so much I think they actually make themselves believe that nutroots are somehow in the mainstream of the population. So, when something likje this happens they really are truly amazed because they just can’t comprehend that a majority of people would disagree with them on anything.
Thanks for the link. Do you realize that I can actually stop every debate with the liberals on this issue with a single question:
“How much of the bill have you read?”
Myself, I’ve read only a few percent of it; the rest was not advisable unless your cardiovascular system is marathon strong or you lack a total understanding of healthcare.