“Teabag, Anti-Government People… Will Encourage The Extremists”
In an odd coincidence, the House debate on Saturday to overhaul health care took place on the third anniversary of the 2006 election that gave Democrats majority control after 12 years of Republican dominance. It fell to President Obama and to Congressional leaders to persuade those Democrats still sweating the final vote that it would not prove the party’s undoing in next November’s midterm elections.
Both Mr. Obama and the House leaders showcased Democrats’ newest colleague, Representative Bill Owens, who last Tuesday won a special election in an upstate New York district that Republicans had held since 1872. In the campaign, Mr. Owens gave unabashed support to the pending House health care bill, despite the opposition of national conservative groups, including the new Tea Party Patriots, who backed Mr. Owens’s conservative rival.
Mr. Obama, during his private pep talk to Democrats, recognized Mr. Owens’s election and then posed a question to the other lawmakers. According to Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, who supports the health care bill, the president asked, “Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care? All it will do is confuse and dispirit” Democratic voters “and it will encourage the extremists.”
Another freshman Democrat from New Mexico, Representative Martin Heinrich, said the president’s comments overall were reassuring. “If you want to see a recipe for failure,” Mr. Heinrich said, “don’t do the things you talked about in your campaigns and turn your back on your base. All the independent voters in the world don’t matter if the Democrats don’t turn out.”
“This is an opportunity to do something as big as Social Security,” he added. “And me, personally, I don’t want to be on the wrong side of history.”
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A note the the extreme Left: The one extreme always creates the opposite extreme. Always.
This is where Obama is ignorant. It is he and his actions that are encouraging us to take him on … the fucking wimp. And, it’s good if his Democrat constituents are confused. He made them that way and it will come back to haunt him. We ‘extremists’ are not confused. And, a word to Martin Heinrich: he, Obama, Democrats, and all liberals are going to find themselves on the wrong side of history very soon.
Article -> “It fell to President Obama and to Congressional leaders to persuade those Democrats still sweating the final vote that it would not prove the party’s undoing in next November’s midterm elections.”
Wow! And here I thought the guy down the street was gullible.
Those assholes are toast next November.
“Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them”
How Presidential and above the fray. I’d be willing to bet the little bitch would not admit to saying this, backtrack, ignore the question, etc… if there was anyone in the media willing to actually ask him a difficult question.
My thoughts exactly - he just dengrated OVER 50% of the US population! This is the most cowardly, snotty, spoiled little brat I have ever seen. He reminds me of a 7th grade little girl who can’t get her way so she is going call her fellow students names and throw a tantrum. Dispicable - by the way my four year old grandson has more sense and manners than this jerk!
Nothing more than arrogant obfuscation and willful blindness to the obvious. Typical DemoRats.
The twink is a scumbag…. it’s as plain as Soros’ balls on his chin.