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Posted on 09.07.09 by Danny Glover @ 10:56 pm
The summer of 2009 has been politically hot here in America. At town halls across the country, overburdened taxpayers have rallied for the free market and against costly, intrusive government. They have sacrificed time and money to exercise their First Amendment rights of free speech and petitioning the government for a redress of grievances. They have confronted lawmakers and demanded answers to simple questions. They have admonished their representatives to keep in check an executive branch that wants to control the health care and energy sectors. The political version of Newton’s Law — “to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction” — has been on full display as a result. The establishment doesn’t like to be challenged, so the president, members of Congress and their allies in politics and the media have attacked the messenger. They have maligned the grassroots as a phony “astroturf” political movement even as they have hired counter protesters, bused them to town halls, given them cookie-cutter signs and told them how to pick fights. Some lawmakers have hidden from taxpayers; others have mocked their constituents, forced them to show identification to ask questions and even had them removed from town halls. One fan of the president’s policies instigated a fight with a critic of those plans and bit the finger off of his foe. Those two very different portraits of America played out on television screens and the Internet over the past several weeks. Now I’ve pieced together the snippets into one nine-minute video: EDITOR’S NOTE: This video would not have been possible without the great work of the many citizen journalists who filmed town halls in their cities over the past several weeks. I’m also grateful to The Club For Growth and Hot Air, which served as great resources for finding the videos again. And thanks to our three children, Anthony (9), Elli (7) and Catie (4), who took turns filming me for the introduction and final words. Filed under: Government and News & Politics and People and Rednecks and Video Comments:
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Two Americas, Two Thermostats…
Duane Patterson, Hugh Hewitt’s “Generalissimo” writes that temperature-wise, this has been one moderate summer:
We just came off of one of the coolest winters we’ve had in a long time in North America. Just ask the Minnesotans….
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