Inept and Vicious. Thy Name is Obama

Since my salad days in the 1970s, I’ve noticed that leftists adore “dissent” – as long as they’re the ones doing the dissenting. When normal, everyday Americans do it, there’s no limit to the amount of abuse the left is willing to heap on plain folks who just thought they were speaking their minds.

Our president is most certainly a leftist with an agenda – and training in Chicago politics. He knows how to agitate and attack his opponents – just look at what happened to his political opponents in Illinois. He doesn’t actually know anything about governing – although he appears to have a taste for ruling. His agenda is is collapsing under the weight of its own ineptitude and incoherence – and the opposition of ordinary Americans.

So, Hope ‘n Change has decided to go Alinsky on average Americans. A few news items. From The Politico:

Top White House aides gave Senate Democrats a recess battle plan on Thursday, arming the lawmakers with tips for avoiding disastrous town hall meetings while showing them polling on popular aspects of the reform effort.

Senior White House adviser David Axelrod and deputy chief of staff Jim Messina told senators to focus on the insured and how they would benefit from “consumer protections” in the overhaul, such as ending the practice of denying insurance based on preexisting conditions and ensuring the continuity of coverage between jobs.

They showed video clips of the confrontational town halls that have dominated the media coverage, and told senators to do more prep work than usual for their public meetings by making sure their own supporters turn out, senators and aides said.

And they screened TV ads and reviewed the various campaigns by critics of the Democratic plan.

“If you get hit, we will punch back twice as hard,” Messina said, according to an official who attended the meeting.

And when the going gets tough, bash Rush Limbaugh. That always works. From the DNC website:

At a time when families are looking for solutions to rebuild the economy and make health care more affordable, Rush Limbaugh is attempting to sidetrack the important debate through his use of symbols that are synonymous with murder, intolerance and genocide.

But don’t forget the unions. From the Sluffington Post:

The nation’s largest federation of labor organizations has promised to directly engage with boisterous conservative protesters at Democratic town halls during the August recess.

In a memo sent out on Thursday, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney outlined the blueprint for how the union conglomerate would step up recess activities on health care reform and other topics pertinent to the labor community. The document makes clear that Obama allies view the town hall forums as ground zero of the health care debate. It also uses the specter of the infamous 2000 recount “Brooks Brothers” protest to rally its members to the administration’s side.

“The principal battleground in the campaign will be town hall meetings and other gatherings with members of Congress in their home districts,” reads the memo. “We want your help to organize major union participation to counter the right-wing “Tea-Party Patriots” who will try to disrupt those meetings, as they’ve been trying to do to meetings for the last month. …

(Remember the hooligans – many of them Republican Congressional staff – who harassed Florida vote counters in 2000? We can’t let that happen again!).”

Let’s see. Hope ‘n Change is willing to bash ordinary Americans, attack talk show hosts and turn loose the unions on protesters. Sounds pretty Chicago to me.

And he’s doing all this even though Dems control both houses of Congress.

Hap tips to Michelle and Allah.

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