Health Revolt
by Vincent Fiore
Issue 138 - August 26, 2009

Though Congress has recessed for the month of August, the rhetoric and demagoguery has not, with the main topic being President Obama’s health care reform.

Democratic members of Congress and the Democratic National Committee have not been pleased with the result, have taken to calling Republican and even Democrat voters that have attended the town hall events they, themselves, have sponsored “angry mobs,” “right-wing extremist,” “cranks,” and even likening lawful protest to Nazis. The party that gives lip service to “unity” and “bipartisanship” is now in the process of demonstrating its absolute disdain for anyone who disagrees publicly with what is increasingly being looked upon as a disastrous health care reform.

White House Health Reform Office czar Linda Douglass has even set up an e-mail address-- flag@whitehouse.gov.--asking Obama supporters to send along anything that “seems fishy” regarding public reaction to Obama’s health insurance reform.

The anger boiling-over throughout America, however, is not a product of Republican interest groups or insurance companies renting mobs to storm town hall meetings in “brooks brothers” suits.

It is the American electorate beginning to stir from its Obama-induced stupor that captivated so many during the 2008 election cycle.

It is America taking a page from its proud and eventful history, saying not just “no” but “hell no” to ObamaCare and the liberal Democratic Congress that seeks to impose it regardless of what the people want.

It is the fear of one-sixth of the U.S. economy being nationalized--running up deficits that cannot possibly be paid down by our children and possibly theirs. It is future runaway inflation, 34 million Americans on food stamps, the dollar crashing, unemployment at levels not seen since the Great Depression, and still more.

It is America the free, shaking its mighty fists in frustration, in disbelief, in genuine anger, and with certainty, saying STOP!

President Obama thought that the electorate would transfer its personal adoration for him to his policies. They have not, and ever-more increasingly, rebels against those very policies. The Obama honeymoon period is now hopefully a thing of the past, as the love affair that existed between him and the American people slowly sober to the realities of a president bent on changing the very fabric of America.

Vincent Fiore is a freelance political writer based in New York. His commentary has been posted over numerous Web sites and publications around the world.

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