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From Washington Examiner's Michael Barone...

Democrats flummoxed by health care protests

This morning we were treated to a smug USA Today opinion article by Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer. “Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American,” they write. Actually, drowning out a speaker—by the boos some Democratic members of Congress have been greeted with or by the loud cheering that greeted Barack Obama so often during the 2008 campaign season—is not un-American or illegitimate. Preventing someone from speaking altogether—drowning them out permanently—is rude, boorish and often self-defeating; but not un-American. But the more interesting part of the article is not the headline quote, but the oozing condescension toward so many American voters toward the bill Pelosi and Hoyer assert the House “will” pass in September. “Health care is complex.”

Much too complex for simpletons like us to understand; we must rely on the high-and-mighty elected to decide for us. Let's just shut up, continue to mill about, grazing on the green grass so well tended and provided to us by our betters. There's no need for us to complain! Our betters in Washington have all the answers! Just ask 'em.

So, that explains why they are stunned that some of us are not being nice sheeple; that we argue and protest and picket and complain and harass our Representatives at these Townhall forums. Why can't we be just like they were during the 8 years of Bush? You know, quiet, unresponsive, get-along at all costs? Isn't that the way you remember it?

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