Recently at a town hall meeting, Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass) was in rare form.  He normally is snide and arrogant, but that day he was downright abusive.  He will no doubt say he was being reactionary, cashing in on the convenient excuse that apparently every town hall grouping is full of nothing but angry mobs carrying torches and pitchforks.  He asked someone what planet they were from when they asked him questions about the health care bill.  He was not only condescending, he was utterly full of contempt for the audience.  I saw the video clips, and I think he truly believed himself above the ‘little people.’

Congressman Frank and others of his ilk do not live here on planet earth with the rest of us.  He is an extreme liberal, a group that is the smallest of all general political labels (Republicans, Democrats, Independents, Conservatives and Liberals).  They do not know what it is to be out in ‘normal’ America.  They are almost always guaranteed re-election, and never have to really put up much of a fight in their extremely liberal states and/or districts.  Barney Frank is from one of the most liberal districts in one of the most liberal states in the country.  Other Democrats in this category would be Congressman Charlie Rangel (NY), Ted Kennedy (Mass), Dianne Feinstein (Cali), Nancy Pelosi (Cali), and California Senator Barbara Boxer, who actually for the first time finds herself in dangerous polling territory against her 2010 assumed-to-be rivals Carly Fiorina and Chuck DeVore.

These people are calling the protesters Nazis, thugs and ignorant hicks.  They are complaining at the audacity that these people have to stand up and voice their objections.  They don’t like the fact that anyone would have any objections.  People like Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) said he would vote against his constituency’s wishes and vote for H.R. 3200 (The Democrat-written health care bill) even if they all told him not to. He said he didn’t care.  He spoke with arrogance, as if the ‘little people’ did not know what is best for them, and needed to be told.  They all seem to bristle with that arrogance, as if they cannot be bothered with the serfs who do not seem to know what is best for them.

They do not know what a general election looks like.  They never have to fight and they have never had to deal with people who think other than what they think, until they started screwing with their health care.  They woke people up to how they truly view people.  They view people as something that can be pushed around and controlled, and they seem to have woken up the sleeping giant.

Speaking of H.R. 3200, I have downloaded it from the congressional website where it is available, and I am making my way through it.  My next few blogs will feature my findings and review of this monstrosity of a bill.   I’ve read 250 pages so far it and it is a complete train wreck, kind of like Obama’s sales pitch these past few weeks!

Stay tuned!

Tags: Barney Frank, Democrats, Health Care, HR 3200, Obama, Pelosi

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