Democrats vs. well-dressed protesters

Mark Steyn on a roll - downhill, fast. The Community is Restless. He had a lot of material to work with. “The right-wing extremist Republican base is back!” “I think they’re AstroTurf,” “They’re carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on health care.”

When the community starts organizing against the organizer, the whole rigmarole goes to hell. Not that these extremists showing up at town-hall meetings are real members of the “community.” . . . . Sen. Barbara Boxer has denounced dissenters from Obama’s health-care proposals as too “well-dressed” to be genuine. . . .

Fortunately, this president . . . won’t give in to the attire pressure. So, on Monday, the official White House website drew attention to the alarming amount of “disinformation about health insurance reform.” “These rumors often travel just below the surface,” . . .

“Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help,” continued Commissar Phillips. “If you get an email or see something on the web about health-insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.”

Reporting dissent is the highest form of patriotism! . . .

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’d now 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. . . .

Remember when Bush was Hitler? Apparently his secret extremist right-wing Republican organization survives! Quinnipiac’s poll, released Aug. 5, found that 52 percent of respondents disapproved of Obama’s handling of the healthcare issue, while 39 percent approved. That's a lot of people who agree with the terrorist extremists.

Reprise: Iowahawk provides photographic proof of the well-organized, top-down discipline of the Extremist Republican Base. Tigerhawk admits to owning a pair of Sperry Topsiders and to have recently ordered Sperry's Santa Cruz Thong Sandals. He links ZZ Top's Sharp Dressed Man. And he admits to a personal distaste for the shout-down protest technique used recently by fiscal conservatives at some townhall meetings, and so familiar on college campuses against conservative speakers. I don't like it either. The first video out, of an Arlen Specter townhall, showed that the line which set off the protesters concerned the need for Congress to "act fast". That is, before carefully considering the bill.

Update: Violence at Townhall Meetings? Look for the Union label.

Time and again, liberals accuse those who don't agree with them of doing precisely what they have done, and and what they intend to do in the near future.