Republicans Can’t Afford for Democrats to Succeed
05 August 2009 2:50 pm by Taylor Marsh
Michelle Malkin is pouting (incoherently) again.
The impassioned thrashing in public of the wingnut fringe is having the impact of rallying Democrats, which isn’t exactly what Malkin maniacs had in mind.
DNC communications director Brad Woodhouse issued a statement about “the Republican Party and Allied Groups’ Mob Rule,” saying that the “Republicans and their allied groups — desperate after losing two consecutive elections and every major policy fight on Capitol Hill — are inciting angry mobs of a small number of rabid right wing extremists funded by K Street Lobbyists to disrupt thoughtful discussions about the future of health care in America taking place in Congressional Districts across the country.”
“The right wing extremists’ use of things like devil horns on pictures of our elected officials, hanging members of Congress in effigy, breathlessly questioning the president’s citizenship and the use of Nazi SS symbols and the like just shows how outside of the mainstream the Republican Party and their allies are. This type of anger and discord did not serve Republicans well in 2008 — and it is bound to backfire again.”
The backlash has begun, with progressive health care activists organizing online, get your August Recess Guide here, in order to get the word out about where town halls will be held so serious people who want the insurance companies held to account can get their voices heard.
But it all comes down to the absolute, bone clattering panic of the Republicans, who obviously have guessed that if Democrats succeed in getting serious health care reform, once again they will be cast as the party with no answers and no solutions for the people.
Like other government safety nets, health care will be delivered through Democratic passion for what’s possible and what’s needed to make the lives of people better. Instead of trying to convince people to vote against their own best interests so you can seem relevant, when the only answer you have to any question is no.
