DRScoundrels

This Easter break has not been fun for a couple of Progressive Socialists come home over the “Spring Holiday” to glad hand with their constituents.

New Hampshire, which is becoming more of a “Leave us alone” state than ever,  didn’t prepare baskets filled with goodies.

Carol Shea-Porter and Paul Hodes came home and decided, bravely, to go out and face the response.

This, of course, is why Barry O and Plasti Girl (tip my hat to Freedom’s Wings name for Pelosi) and Evil Opey (my name for Harry Reid) wanted to push this thing through the House before the Easter recess. That’s why the evil snow princess was carrying that sledge gavel before Health Care passed. She was planning on using it in more ways than one, don’tcha know.

They knew, seeing the numbers, that the folks who represented that 56-62%, depending on the poll you read, were going to be waiting to make sure that their reps weren’t ready to pull the trigger on the progressive socialistic takeover that Teddy Roosevelt and  Woodrow Wilson only salivated over.

And boy, were they waiting.

Carol Shea-Porter couldn’t get buy a break, getting booed and cat called after every explanation that she attempted to pawn off on her constituents. She didn’t allow for open mike questioning, instead using a lottery system and time limits to control what could have been even uglier than it was. As it stood, that didn’t help her much either, with her constituents asking her, and rightly so, why they couldn’t ask questions, if she thought she was royalty, and why her office was sending out form letters that didn’t answer very specific questions in letters that were sent to her before the vote.

Paul Hodes, who is attempting to run for Senate, was rebuffed shaking someone’s hand. According to Politico:

At a senior center in Manchester Wednesday, one woman turned away when Hodes offered his outstretched hand for an introduction.

“I don’t want to shake your hand. You voted for health care, so just go,” snapped Carmen Guimond, as she refocused on her lunch of roast beef and mashed potatoes and waved him on.

When Hodes decided to stay at the table and launch a defense of what’s considered to be one of the more popular provisions of the law — closing the “donut hole,” a gap in prescription drug coverage for Medicare recipients — she challenged whether he had read the entire bill and dismissed his explanation.

“Two hundred and forty dollars in the first year. That’s all it is,” she said, referring to the initial subsidy. “That’s not much.”

“And over time, by 2020, it closes the donut hole,” Hodes explained.

“We’ll all be dead by then,” she deadpanned.

Of course, the Senate Candidate probably would have been singed even more had she pointed out the cost of closing that donut hole in jobs, reduction in free market capital for business growth and in taxes on her fellow Americans, but what a trooper.

I don’t necessarily believe, contrary to the progressive socialists and their thoughts on conservatives and how hate filled we are, that we should be rude and not shake someone’s hand. I figure we can get the same point across while we are holding on to their hand and making sure they can’t get away too easily.

There is a fine line between protests, like 9/12 where there were 0 arrests and we picked up our own garbage, versus protests on the left where they don’t let people speak, break things and get arrested.

We can accomplish the same thing in our way – and that is respectful of the law and others and get our point across so we are convincing the undecided in the room, not pissing them off.

To give an example – on April 15th last year, we assembled over 2,000 people in a very small area. We were asked to stay off the road and sidewalks by the police, and we did. We didn’t leave a piece of garbage behind, nor were there any fights or violence even though we had people screaming obscenities at us occasionally as they drove through our protest. (The area we were in was so narrow we were on both sides of a road)

Keep it calm folks – there’s no need to be like them. Calm and smart. Don’t be angry and stupid. Don’t give them one single excuse – not one. Every time some jerk goes off the deep end, the one’s that don’t represent the law and respect and righteousness like we do, they point to us and tell us we’re just like them. We know we’re not, but getting angry and screaming about it at this time won’t do anything but make us sound incoherent and obnoxious and alienate.

Imagine the fear inside the left if we suddenly got very quiet and laser focused on November.

But I showed you these stories to make a point. Keep the anger inside, use it to fuel your activism in spreading the word at work, in the mall and to your friends and family. Don’t have quiet days for the next several months – and take your vacation in December. Learn the law and the bills and use those to embarrass the people who claim to be in DC for us but can’t even take the time to understand what their laws do to us. Or don’t care. But the knowledge, and the ability to speak calmly and rationally is what will carry the day when you show your superior knowledge. And they show their asses.

We have work to do – and the rewards will be worth it.