Actual grass-roots opposition — as opposed to the staged optics meant to create perceptions that don’t really jibe with reality — is difficult, and requires actual widespread opposition.
— Which, like allowing voters to decide shit, can get messy. Best to have the deck stacked. FOR FREEDOM!
Area MoveOn members will rally inside and outside a town hall meeting Representative West is holding on May17 to protest the Representative’s recent vote to cut Medicare funding. The protestors will show up with signs telling Congress to keep their “Hands Off Our Medicare.”
Last month, Representative West voted, with nearly every other Republican in the House of Representatives, for a budget that would end Medicare as we know it. At the event, MoveOn members will try to hand Representative West a note demanding to know how West can ask seniors to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy through massive cuts in Medicare.
Of course, the budget didn’t end Medicare — those on it and who will soon be on it wouldn’t be affected at all by the reforms — but again, truth is sometimes too confusing for the “progressive’s” target audience, so the message has to be, well, finessed, so that these voters take the right lessons from the narrative, rather than worry their dim little heads too much about facts.
— Which tend to be racist, homophobic, and anti-women and children and the elderly and minorities.
A lie told repeatedly in the pursuance of social justice is not really a lie. And this is true because I keep saying so. So. Q.E.D.
I’m guessing Congressman West will handle this with his usual candor and ablomb. I’m sure he’ll remind the aggressive MoveOn types that the recent vote doesn’t effect anyone on, or soon to be on, medicare; and I’m looking forward to some pithy remarks from him on the “mediscare” tactics of the left, and how, suddenly, demagoguing the old age saftey net has gone from being “cynical fearmongering”-during the Obamacare debates-to constructive dialogue.
Kind of like how DISSENT! went from being the highest form of patriotism to abject, opem, and unbridled RAAAAAAAAAACISM!
I can’t wait to see what happens if those pinheads start their usual and customary slogan chanting in an effort to shout him down.
…a note demanding to know how West can ask seniors to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy through massive cuts in Medicare.
I sincerely hope West is on top of his game, and calls them out on their twisted understanding of how the tax system works. Entitlement beneficiaries are not ‘paying for tax cuts’ for anybody. Rather, they are being allowed to extort less of other people’s earnings.
I know it’s been said countless times around here, but it continues to piss me off that these goons try to paint “you’re not letting us steal as much as we want” into “you’re stealing from us.” It’s like crucifying some old woman because she didn’t have enough cash in her purse when you snatched it.
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I hope they call him a nigger. To his face.
Yes, please MoveOn, do cause a scene of some sort and get Allen West in the national news if at all possible. I’m sure it’ll work out just as well as having Oliver North testify in front of Congress did.
Democrats really want to destroy Allen West. They recognize the danger of him and want to take him out now. The effort will get national support.
MoveOn morons setting themselves up for whacking of epic proportions.
Doo eeet!
I propose a litmus test for presidential candidates that shall be called the West test. If, after hearing that the proggs are going on the offensive against a candidate, your first thought is “wonder if they’ll (the proggs) survive the smack down,” the candidate has passed the test. Now apply that to the current crop… who survives?
Cain
Palin
Bachmann (?)
Ryan (?)
Gingrich Ha!
Pawlenty Ha!
Romney Seriously?
Any who fail the test should be, to paraphrase a certain establican ass, retired from the field forthwith. There’s the litmus test the party should be applying… not some ‘viable’ ‘electable’ pragmatic BS.
Stephanie, EXACTLY! We need candidates who stand up and return fire, rather than retreat from the field.
Oh, was that too violent? ;-)