ARE YOU ANGRY YET? ROGER KIMBALL…READ BOTH POSTINGS AND SEE THE VIDEO
Who is Bob Etheridge? The quick but incomplete answer is that he is — for the time being, anyway — a Democratic Congressman from North Carolina.
The answer is incomplete because it needs to be supplemented by the fact that he is also someone who, when politely addressed on the street by a student, reacts by physically assaulting him.
Check this out (and thanks to Andrew Breitbart for posting the clip):
President Obama is notoriously thin-skinned when it comes to criticism. The idea, I think, is that he regards his election not as an expression of the will of the people — a determination that might alter tomorrow with the alteration of our national fortunes — by rather as a sort of divine dispensation, without of course involving anything so plebeian as actual divinity. To put it somewhat paradoxically: It’s election as a state of election. And it seems to be a Democratic handicap. A student asks asks a public servant (yes, I know it sounds quaint) you he fully supports the Obama agenda and the reaction is a combination of anger, contempt, and physical abuse.
“Who are you? Who are You?â€: Rep. Etheridge kept asking the student that. But the real question is why Bob Etheridge still holds his seat.
You might want to contact him and ask him that here:
Washington Office
1533 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Phone: (202) 225-4531
Fax: (202) 225-5662
Raleigh District Office
333 Fayetteville Street, Suite 505
Raleigh, NC 27601
Phone: (919) 829-9122 or North Carolina Toll Free Number: 1-888-262-6202 (BOB-NC02)
Fax: (919) 829-9883
Lillington District Office
609 North First Street
P.O. Box 1059
Lillington, NC 27546
Phone: (910) 814-0335 North Carolina Toll Free Number: 1-866-384-3743 (ETHERIDGE)
Fax: (910) 814-2264
You can also email him through his web site here:
http://etheridge.house.gov/Contact/
And come November, if you live the right district, you might want to be sure that he publicly assaults students on his own nickel, not the public’s.
Are you angry yet? Two paragraphs from Hot Air
Posted By Roger Kimball On June 14, 2010 @ 4:28 am In Uncategorized | 1 Comment
As we wait for the President of the Untied States to finish his golf game — his fourth since the BP oil spill [1] — and then find some “ass to kick [2],†it is instructive to step back and remember some of what he and his cronies in the White House and Democratic-controlled Congress have in store for you and me. The always tonic web site Hot Air offers a splendid reflection about the predatory confiscations [3] now being contemplated the Obama administration. Here are two bracing paragraphs:
Watching this Presidential commission discuss strategies for deficit reduction is like watching a pack of gluttons talk about getting in shape while they prowl up and down a buffet table. They linger over the deep-fried mortgage interest deduction caps [4], dip their spoons into the rich chocolate of the VAT tax [5], and lick their lips as they wait for the expired Bush tax cuts [6] to pop out of the oven. They end up perched on the edge of creaking chairs, tittering at the wonderfully naughty idea of devouring everyone’s 401k plans [7] for dessert. It’s a nauseating spectacle that will only end when they’re escorted from the restaurant by angry voters.
Vivid, no? And here’s a more sober graph about the atrocity known as ObamaCare:
No politician has any business talking about tax increases until ObamaCare is repealed. It’s the most comprehensively failed legislation of the modern era. Like a taxi that runs on plutonium, it’s costing us a fortune, and making us sick, even while it’s sitting there and doing nothing. Sold with fanciful promises and fraudulent cost estimates, it’s another expensive scheme to buy votes with taxpayer money, ending with a planned crisis the government will be only too happy to step in and “solve†by seizing even more of our wealth and liberty. Its passage stymied serious attempts at real improvements to our health-care system, including tort reform and allowing the interstate sale of insurance plans to increase competition. As with so many other delusional Big Government programs, the opportunity cost of passing ObamaCare, and passing up on reasonable plans that enhance individual liberty, rivals its staggering price tag. We’ll come trillions closer to a balanced budget by shredding it.
Amen. And while I’m at it, here’s a final paragraph from Hot Air about the out rage that is the public-sector employee union, through which some of your fellow citizens manage a lifetime of featherbedding at your expense:
Another item that must be on the table is the abolition of public-sector employee unions. The entire concept is ridiculous, a system that transforms taxpayers into serfs for a pampered aristocracy that hates them. Public employee unions produce a cycle of demand, despair, and violence that begins with fingers bitten off, and ends with murder by arson [8] in the streets of Athens. Much of the loot from Obama’s $800 billion stimulus heist was used to pay off public unions [9]. All talk of government “austerity†is meaningless babble until these organizations have been dissolved.
Good stuff, isn’t it? Remember it come November.
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