The current campaign to villify opponents of the new healthcare law is hard to believe even for the Obamacrats. First, there appears to be no proof of any acts taken against any Democrat in connection with the issue. No one has been hit. No on has been injured. Nothing happened except that bricks were thrown through two windows and the perpetrators are unknown. There was a gun shot through the window of a congressional office, but there the victim was Republican Eric Cantor and the police determined that the shot was an accident. For all we know, the two broken windows were likewise accidental or they were done by Democrats looking for a new issue.
Even when it comes to threats, there seems to be a dearth of evidence of actual threats. When the Congressional Black Caucus decided to go for a stroll through the protesters outside Congress at the time of the House vote on healthcare, we heard that they were called the N word and spat upon. Strangely, even though they brought their own video cameraman along to tape the walk through, there is no evidence of anyone ever calling them any epithet. there are only chants of "kill the bill". Also, the spitting incident turns out to be an unintentional spraying of saliva by a guy who was busy chanting. This is hardly proof of any wrongdoing.
Second, the problem with this argument is that it has been tried before and failed. Last Summer, the Obamacrats called the people who came to town hall meeting to protest the bill everthing from Astroturf to evil-mongers to fascists to right wing nuts to --well you get the picture. The public, however, saw the pictures of those attending the meetings and realized how silly the attacks on these folks really were. The same thing will happen again, although the Obamacrats have tried to overcome this by claiming that the people making the threats are unknown and unseen. Nearly everyone, however, knows someone who is adamantly opposed to the healthcare law (after all, that is a majority of all Americans). It will be hard to view all of those folks as racist fascists.
Third, much of the nonsense being spewed by the media in support of the Obamacrat charges does more to undermine the charges than to support them. For example, Frank Rich of the New York Times, that bastion of even-handedness, today claims that the anger in regarding the bill is actually racism and not about the healthcare bill at all. While Rich is clearly an idiot, his columns do more to solidify opposition to the law than he can imagine. Average Americans do not like being told they are racists just because they oppose a healthcare law that will damage the country and undermine the healthcare system because the president (who they themselves chose for the office) happens to be black. In Rich's perverted world, anyone who opposes anything that Obama does is a racist. This kind of attack just increases the anger or the ordinary folks. After all, now when they exercise their right of free speech to oppose a bad law, they have epithets hurled at them from the pages of the New York Times. Maybe someone should tell me what the difference is between Rich calling these folks racists and someone at a rally outside the Capitol calling some black Congressman the N word. It is the same thing, except that Rich actually did this and no one has any evidence that any such thing happened at the Capitol.
And while we are discussing the acts of the liberals and supporters of the Obamacrats, why don't we recall what happened at the convention in St. Paul where John McCain was selected by the Republicans in 2008. At that time, far left protesters threw bricks through the windows of delegate buses which resulted in a number of hospitalizations. Other protesters dropped bags of sand and rocks from bridges onto highweays below, thanksfully not killing anyone in their attacks. Not a single Democrat cam forward to condemn this action. The media hardly covered it. Yet when two windows get broken, the media starts comparing it to the holocaust.
Fortunately, Americans are not to idiots the left thinks they are. I do not believe that they will fall for this garbage. Indeed, I expect a rather substantial backlash which will further harm the standing of the Obamacrats.
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