Sherrod Brown stacks the deck at health care "roundtable"?
From the Columbus Dispatch article this weekend:
"[A] trail of e-mails and phone calls suggests that Democratic organizations had a heads-up about the event that everyday people did not have.
At 1:31 p.m. on Tuesday, Brian Rothenberg, executive director of Progress Ohio, an independent organization closely linked to the Democratic Party, sent an e-mail urging backers of President Barack Obama's health-care changes to show up.
"We need you to hold a sign in support of health-care reform, be positive and smile for the cameras," Rothenberg wrote. He said a number of different groups supporting health care -- including the Service Employees International Union -- would be there.
At 1:49 p.m. Tuesday, Brown's staff sent a media advisory about the event. When asked about the event Tuesday, Dubyak said space would be limited.
A Dispatch reporter called Brown's staff Tuesday night and said she could not find the event posted on the senator's Website. The staffer first insisted it was there and then said it would soon be posted."
More coverage (with video) at The Heritage Foundation. See the YouTube videos here, here, and here (I particularly like this one of a U.S. Senator's staffer explaining why the U.S. Senator isn't holding a town hall meeting, as he stands at the doorway to a "roundtable").
This is disturbing.
Thanks, Mike.
Disturbing? Yes. Surprising? Not so much.
"The essence of civilization is the orderly quest for truth, the rational perception of reality and all its facets, and the adaptation of man’s behaviour to its laws. So long as we follow the path of reason we shall not move far from the lighted circle of civilization. Its enemies invariably lie among those who, for whatever motive, deny, distort, minimize, exaggerate or poison the truth, and who falsify the process of reason. At all times civilization has its enemies, though they are constantly changing their guise and their weapons. The great defensive art is to detect and unmask them before the damage they inflict becomes fatal. 'Hell,' wrote Thomas Hobbes, 'is truth seen too late.' Survival is falsehood detected in time." --Paul Johnson
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Call me naive but I was a bit surprised as well as disturbed. Your quote is the quote of the week. I'll post it later.
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But I ask: What do we do when they (our elected officials) deny the truth?
Lie about their motives?
Deny logic at every turn and ignore our outcry?
Not re-elect them is my usual response and that of my father. But this does not work anymore. It does not work because they have built up a machine. One of idiots and sheep. They are re-elected by those who do not work, do not produce, do not add but only take.
They re elect them because they are promised more.
And listen, they are wrong and they know they are wrong.
They themselves do not believe it or what is there to hide?
Why do they not want us to diagree?
Surely it is not because we are wrong?
What in the hell are we going to do about them?
The answer scares me.
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