American Glob

Via Dave in Texas at AoSHQ. The Washington Times reports that Dem House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is starting to figure out how monumentally screwed his party is come November…

House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer said Thursday he and Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a mistake when they called anti-health care protests “un-American” last year.

“That was not a good phrase, not a good use of language, it was not correct,” Mr. Hoyer, Maryland Democrat, said, adding that he did not see anything wrong with vigorous debating of philosophies.

In August, in the middle of a summer in which members of Congress were sometimes shouted down at town halls by constituents furious over the health care bill, Mr. Hoyer and Mrs. Pelosi wrote an op-ed article in USA Today decrying the tenor of the debate and complaining about baseless charges.

The leaders called the protests “an ugly campaign” and said it was clear some were trying to disrupt “a civil dialogue.”

“Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American,” the two wrote.

Apology not accepted.

House Speaker John Boehner has such a nice ring to it.

UPDATE: Here’s the real reason for Steny Hoyer’s crocodile-tear laden remorse:

Nationally-recognized election prognosticator Charlie Cook isn’t the only one who sees the majority for House Democrats slipping away. Today, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer agreed, but said that he and others will mount a strong campaign to try and convince the public that better times are right around the corner.

In his recent analysis, Cook suggested a 30-40 seat lost in November for House Democrats, adding it could be worse if the current anti-incumbent and anti-Democrat trend continues. Republicans need to pick up 41 seats to take back the majority.

Asked about it at a media breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor today, Hoyer says, “It’s an accurate view of what the polls reflect right now.”

Gee, ya think?

I ask this question based on a legitimate concern.

Republican leaders continue to back the ACORN/Daily KOS endorsed Dede Scozzafava while fretting over Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman in the New York 23 congressional race.

Establishment Republicans, including Newt Gingrich, are puzzled by the excitement over Doug Hoffman and the endorsement of his campaign by figures like Sarah Palin and Tim Pawlenty.

Politico reports:

“A senior GOP strategist, granted anonymity in order to speak candidly, lamented that in endorsing Hoffman, the contenders had delivered to the White House an early victory in their efforts to brand the Republican Party as dominated by its conservative wing.”

Conservative wing? Conservative wing???

Hello???

Gallup reported today that Conservatives are the dominant ideological group in America.

Since when is the majority a “wing?”

“Changes among political independents appear to be the main reason the percentage of conservatives has increased nationally over the past year: the 35% of independents describing their views as conservative in 2009 is up from 29% in 2008.”

Did the GOP miss the last six months? Did the party leaders not see the Tea Parties, the town hall meetings or the national outrage over ACORN? Have you been sitting in a dark room with your ears plugged?

Here’s a newsflash for the GOP from a libertarian who wants to vote Republican.

1. You don’t need to re-brand the party.

2. If you run a candidate with ANY connection to ACORN, SEIU, or any corrupt affiliate thereof, he or she will LOSE.

3. Run genuine Conservative candidates and you’ll win.

In the mean time I have just one final suggestion.

Buy a computer and check out “the internet.”

As we reported last week, a retired cop was hauled out of a New Hampshire town hall meeting for Rep. Carol Shea Porter (D NH) for simply asking why out of state SEIU members were present.

NOW, thanks to Manchester, NH Mayor Frank Guinta, a Republican who is challenging Carol Shea Porter, the retired police officer and US Veteran, Carl Tominelli, finally got his chance to speak.

VIDEO:

Thanks to the New Hampshire Conservative blog GraniteGrok for covering this event!

The Obot teacher is an “organizer” from HCAN or “Health Care for America Now!”

Who is HCAN, you ask? All the usual suspects…

“Our Steering Committee includes: ACORN, AFL-CIO, AFSCME, AFT, Americans United for Change, Campaign for America’s Future, Center for American Progress Action Fund, Campaign for Community Change, Children’s Defense Fund Action Council, Communications Workers of America, International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW), MoveOn.org, NAACP, National Council of La Raza, National Education Association, National Women’s Law Center, SEIU, UFCW, USAction, Women’s Voices, Women’s Vote and Working America.”

Live free or die?

A retired cop stood up at a New Hampshire town hall meeting for Carol Shea Porter (D) of New Hampshire this weekend and asked why out of state SEIU members were present at the meeting. Result? At Shea Porter’s request, he was removed from the meeting by the police.

VIDEO:

Now Hampshire has a full report which includes some interesting background on Carol Shea Porter and her changed attitude about protesters at town hall meetings.

“In four short years Carol Shea-Porter has evolved from a rabble-rousing, town hall disrupting anti-war activist who once had to be forcibly removed from a President George Bush event in Portsmouth to a Member of Congress who instructed armed security guards to remove a frustrated voter from her own town hall event in Manchester on Saturday.”

“Four years ago Carol Shea-Porter protested at the State House alongside people dressed as Nazis while accusing the federal government of trying to “brand us like sheep.” On Saturday, she disparagingly referred to people who do not trust the same federal government to run our health care system as “these people.”

“We remember when, Carol, do you?”

This is the Marine Corps veteran who spoke truth to power at a recent town hall meeting for Rep. Brian Baird of Washington State.

Tonight he was on Sean Hannity where he explained his frustration.

You may have read a report from Patterico.com last week which exposed a fake doctor making an appearance at a town hall meeting in Texas to support ObamaCare.

Now there’s another one.

Michelle Malkin and Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit have the story.

Malkin notes:

“Dubious “doctors” keep turning up at congressional town hall meetings to support a government health care takeover plan that sane medical professionals are revolting against in force.”

Gateway Pundit has more including the “doctor’s” weird car…

“Sheila Leavitt is not a real life doctor– but she does play one at town hall meetings… When she’s not filling up her car with grease.”

Left pundits and Democrat leaders keep screeching that the protesters of ObamaCare are fake.

So far, the only verified fakes are the pro-Obama doctors who keep showing up at town halls.

Of course, the only network to cover this was FOX. Why would the mainstream media show Obama finally getting a REAL question?

Jesse Kelly is a Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq and he’s running for congress in Arizona. He is a fiscal conservative and supporter of free markets.

This is the kind of person America needs in Washington, DC!

The current representative for this part of Arizona, Gabrielle Giffords, cancelled a planned town hall meeting this week, disappointing her constituents.

Jesse Kelly, stepped in and gave all people (from both sides) a chance to be heard on the issues for TWO HOURS!

Watch this video, where Jesse Kelly demonstrates that he has a clear understanding of ObamaCare and then presents COMMON SENSE alternatives to ObamaCare which allow the free market to solve the problem. This man is JUST WHAT WE NEED!

You can read more about this event HERE.

As town hall attendees who oppose ObamaCare across the nation are demonized by the left, the White House, the Speaker of the House and the media, one lefty has suddenly found an acceptable reason to stand up and speak out.

Lane Hudson, a writer at the leftist blog Fire Dog Lake was attending a nutroots conference in Pittsburgh last night. He couldn’t wait for the keynote speaker, President Bill Clinton to address his concerns, so he just stood up in the audience and interrupted him:

“I love Bill Clinton, but we all make mistakes. Sometimes we even are forced to do things we don’t want to. That’s why I was prepared to ask Bill Clinton a tough question last night as he delivered the opening keynote address at Netroots Nation 2009.”

“But it became clear there would be no questions. As I sat in the audience thinking about how Netroots Nation is about celebrating the most open forum of discussion ever to exist, it occurred to me that we were nothing more than a captive audience being talked to. One way communication was NOT what we were there to celebrate and advance.”

“As I considered this, I turned to my friend who had helped to formulate the question I wanted to ask and said, “I might just yell something out.” I couldn’t believe I said it. I mean, blogging and speaking my mind is one thing, but to yell it out in a large public forum to a former President of the United States is quite another.”

“He talked about a new progressive era and how America has changed. Yet, there was no reflection on how that change could undo some big mistakes from his Presidency. So, at the point that he said, “We need an honest, principled debate”, I knew I had to try to stimulate the discussion. So, I stood and said, “Mr. President, will you call for a repeal of DOMA and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell? Right now?”

Wow, what a hero. Way to speak truth to power, Lane!

See when progressives do it, they’re heroes, if only in their own minds. Conservatives speaking out at town halls are still just unwashed uneducated rednecks, racists and worse.

If any Conservative ever gets a chance to ask President Obama a substantive question at a town hall, I hope Lane and his colleagues at Fire Dog Lake will realize we’re just trying to “stimulate the discussion.”