Memo to the Political Class: Start Fearing the People

Congress is ignoring the mood of the country--at its peril...

Take a look at this video from Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill’s recent townhall meeting. Watch the standing ovations inspired by the young soldier’s comments about the Constitution and about not wanting an explanation but an apology from the Senator. Do you see radical societal misfits in the crowd? Do you see group identity politics?

What you see in the video are Americans who love their country and are absolutely livid about their out-of-control government. Phone calls, faxes and emails are said to be running 15 to 1 against any healthcare overhaul. Yet this same government is now going into hyperdrive to go ahead and pass some kind of healthcare overhaul before their August recess!!! All because the White House is afraid Congress will lose their nerve if they face the people in similar townhall meetings across the country during the recess.

The only possible explanation for this behavior is a calculation by Congressional Democrats that they fear the White House more than they fear the people. What a colossal misjudgment.

Let’s be plainspoken here. This White House and this Congress are acting in a way that will incite revolution in this country. They are on the verge of inciting violence against the government.

In our Orwellian era, Janet Napolitano at DHS will try to turn things upside down and blame what she thinks of as a small segment of the American people for their ‘extremism’. But the truth is that it is the Political Class that is acting brazenly and in defiance of the people. That is what incites revolution and violence, because in America, it is ‘we the people’ who are in charge. Not the President and not the Congress.

We hope the Political Class watches the McCaskill video, soon and often. We hope they pull back from the insanity that the White House thugs are trying to drive down the throats of Americans. If they don’t, they will have no one to blame but themselves for what happens next.

Paul Gable

July 29, 2009