Obama: I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking
“But I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don’t mind cleaning up after them, but don’t do a lot of talking.”
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For Immediate Release Date: August 4, 2009 Contact: DNC Press Office Phone: 202-863-8148
Statement from DNC Communications Director Brad Woodhouse on the Republican Party and Allied Groups’ Mob Rule
The Republicans and their allied groups – desperate after losing two consecutive elections and every major policy fight on Capitol Hill – are inciting angry mobs of a small number of rabid right wing extremists funded by K Street Lobbyists to disrupt thoughtful discussions about the future of health care in America taking place in Congressional Districts across the country.
However, much like we saw at the McCain-Palin rallies last year where crowds were baited with cries of ’socialist,’ ‘communist,’ and where the birthers movement was born – these mobs of extremists are not interested in having a thoughtful discussion about the issues – but like some Republican leaders have said – they are interested in ‘breaking’ the President and destroying his Presidency.
These mobs are bussed in by well funded, highly organized groups run by Republican operatives and funded by the special interests who are desperately trying to stop the agenda for change the President was elected to bring to Washington. Despite the headline grabbing nature of these angry mobs and their disruptions of events, they are not reflective of where the American people are on the issues – or the hundreds of thousands of thoughtful discussions taking place around kitchen tables, water coolers and in homes.
The right wing extremists’ use of things like devil horns on pictures of our elected officials, hanging members of Congress in effigy, breathlessly questioning the President’s citizenship and the use of Nazi SS symbols [Heaven forbid. — ed.] and the like just shows how outside of the mainstream the Republican Party and their allies are. This type of anger and discord did not serve Republicans well in 2008 – and it is bound to backfire again.
Wild Thing’s comment…….
The DNC is showing nothing less than contempt for the People. The DNC wants the People to simply obey and be quiet. The federal government is becoming a tyrannical government.
They are running scared. Acorn and Soros will have to fill in the funding gaps for the left wingers that have lost their jobs because of what Obama has been doing.
DNC Brad Woodhouse is a crazy nutt and dangerous, he is trying hard to make a declaration of war. What the heck is wrong with these people on the left.
All anyone wants to do with Town Hall meetings is to have our voice heard. Simple as that and the LEFT CANNOT STAND IT!!!!!
“These mobs are bussed in by well funded, highly organized groups run by Republican operatives…”
Give me a break will you. If Republicans had THAT kind of organization, Obama would not be in the WH! And hey what happened to his saying our side is ‘well dressed” and bathed.
“hanging members of Congress in effigy”
Hey, DNC Communications Director Brad Woodhouse , you better watch those LIES of yours, when we have proof that this kind of thing ONLY happenes from the lleft.
Sarah Palin and John McCain………this was done by DEMOCRATS during the campaign last year…..But Brad Woodhouse has to take the low road so typical of democrats and lie, lie, lie that Republicans did things like this. SCREW YOU Brad Woodhouse !
I need to get hold of the RNC. I had no idea they had busses and would give me nice clothes to wear. I didn’t get the memo.
One bright spot in all of this. They’re pulling defeat from the jaws of victory. If the left had modified the healthcare bill and kept their rhetoric at a minimum, they may have had a chance of passing it. But their tactics, Chicago or Code Pink style, are backfiring badly. Moderates are now galvanizing with the right. The legislators have to be worried about re-election now.
Let’s see Peelosia calls us Nazis, Harry Reid says, we, conservatives, are sabotaging Democracy, does he even have a clue what’s in the Constitution. Obama, says, Sit down and shut up.
Seems to me they all want to violate our constitutional right to Free Speech. Isn’t that what the First Amendment is all about voicing your dissent.
Didn’t Hillary say,“I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not patriotic, and we should stand up and say, “WE ARE AMERICANS AND WE HAVE A RIGHT TO DEBATE AND DISAGREE WITH ANY ADMINISTRATION!”
Jim, LOL good one, yes I didn’t get that
memo either.
Well said this is exactly what they are doing.
“They’re pulling defeat from the jaws of victory”
Mark, I agree, and that quote by
Hillary is perfect for this. Good one,
she made a lot of bad statements
but I bet that one will be the one
she will be most famous for in the end.
Jim…lol…put me on that list for the freebies, too, k?
And to think it’s only Month #7 of 48.
Hey, hey. That reporter used the word LIBERAL instead of Democrat or Progressive. Is the press beginning, gradually to shift a bit from their far left stance? Or do they smell blood in the water and a potential feeding frenzy like they had near the end of the Carter Administration?