In watching the news the last several weeks with all the fake protestors attending the town hall meetings about health care, I keep thinking about Rodney King asking the fundamental question, "Can't we all just get along?" can't we agree to disagree? Can't we respectfully listen to others, not call them names, not make fun of them? What I am seeing reminds me of first grade, or sometimes seventh grade, but not any better. We can think someone is an idiot but do we really need to tell them? Isn't that just appropriate civil discourse?
When the Republicans had control of the House, Senate and the White house, they didn't get it done, just like they didn't pass a constitutional amendment to ban abortion, ban gay marriage, or any other fundamentalist deprivation of personal rights. So what are they complaining about now?
they have a right to complain, just as I do, but not in the way they are doing it, in part because it is dishonest, in part because it is disrespectful, and because when it is all said and done, it is un-American.
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