[Subtitled: Ah, those delightfully doofus (and dangerously delusional) Democrats]

With angry constituents showing up in increasing numbers at Democrat (and some Republican) town hall meetings across the country and demanding to be heard about their growing dissatisfaction with a host of Obama Administration and Congressional issues, rather than just being passively preached to about the Democrat talking points gospel of Obamacare, the Democrat so-called "leadership" is going on the attack, or I should say, counter-attack. Herewith, some of their "reasoning."

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV, that crusty curmudgeonly princeling of the senate, grouses and grumps that town hall attendees are just trying to "sabotage" health care reform. Well, Harry, first of all, which of the at least five so-called health care/health insurance reform "plans" currently floating around in Congress do you think they're trying to sabotage? Or are you talking about what at least the House of Representatives (not your Senate, Harry) has voted on so far, the euphemistically named but seriously flawed and certainly far from final H.R. 3200, "America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009"?

The fact is, when the prez or any of you talk about the prez's health care, uh, sorry, more recently renamed health insurance, reform "plan," there is no "plan" yet. At most what you have is about five differing versions of something embodying most of what are Obama's "goals" for health care/insurance reform. Goals ain't plans, Harry. (Example: Obama still has the goal of closing Guantanamo, but we've yet to see a plan -- even a workable cart-before-the-horse one -- to actually do that.) And once you do get it down into a single plan, with or without Republican participation, if that plan includes things like single payer and a massive government makeover/takeover of the best health care system in the world, especially without tort or insurance rate reform but with rationed care, especially for the elderly, and federal funding of abortions, then you're damn right there will be people at those town hall meetings trying to sabotage it. And I will be one of them.

Senator Barbara Boxer, D-CA, says many town hall attendees are too well dressed to be "sincere." Is that because they're not wearing red ACORN or purple SEIU union T-shirts, Babs? From what I've seen, the people attending the town hall meetings are wearing everything from suits and ties to T-shirts and jeans. Most look like they came to the town hall meeting from work. Don't you try to dress well, Barbara? And aren't you sincere? Just askin'.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, who is both the princess of power in the House and the botox queen (wow, double royalty!), thinks she's seen people with swastikas at town hall meetings. Look out, the skinheads are invading our town hall meetings! Why, they're even crowding out some of our own paid, bussed-in union thugs! How about one person with a crossed-out swastika at one meeting, Miz Nancy? Oh my! But far be it from ME to accuse YOU of exaggerating something just to try and make a point. Or were "those swastikas" at a TEA Party protest, which Democrats also try to deny and decry? How does that work, exactly, where you deny something and then decry its existence? Of course Nance also has said the CIA lies to Congress but has yet to offer any proof of that, either. I guess just claims and allegations are enough nowadays. 

Back in April, President Obama, who as the president of the United States is someone who can have several someones find out anything he wants to know, any time he wants to know it, was dismissive of thousands of TEA Party protesters at hundreds of venues across the country, saying he didn't know what all that was about, except he saw someone waving a tea bag around. (Whattaya think now, Mistah Prez?)

Since then, various Dems and their lamestream media handmaidens have derided TEA Party protesters and denied their authenticity, yet decried their obviously growing numbers. So, lemme see now, (a) they're not authentic, (b) you don't understand what they're all about, but (c) you decry and disparage their activities anyway? And how come when Bush was prez, disruptive liberal "free speech" (read: shouting down any speaker with a conservative point of view) was a sign of "patriotism," but now concerned citizens gathering to demonstrate to their elected representatives their dissatisfaction with a runaway government is not only somehow "unpatriotic" but should also be "ignored"? Don't you have to be at least a little schizophrenic to do all that, all at the same time? Or is that just another example of Dems trying to have their cake and eating it too?

But, speaking of cake, Senator Richard Durbin, D-IL, seems to take the cake among all the Democrats lately. Senator Durbin seems to think the Vast Right-wing Conspiracy has been reactivated (if it ever was dormant, eh, Senator? -- nudge, nudge, wink, wink.) and that there is nothing authentic about the people or their anger at recent town hall meetings: They're all Republicans, or at least all conservatives. They're organized and funded by the GOP, or some other Obama-unapproved and unapproving special interest group. They're all bussed in just to disrupt the meetings and prevent a fair discussion of health care/health insurance reform. They're right-wing fringe nutjobs who don't really represent mainstream America. They just want to be disruptive and get on YouTube. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Hey, Dickey, I know you've been a senator for a long time, but either (a) you are desperately disconnected from what's going on in this country right now, (b) you are perniciously paranoid about what you do know is going on, or (c) you want us to think you're just little Dickey Durbin, Democrat from Illinois, and just really dumber than dirt. Either that, or you think we are.

I attended a TEA Party organizing meeting this past week.

By the way, I write TEA Party, instead of just tea party, because TEA is an acronym standing for the core idea of "Taxed Enough Already," whereas a tea party is presumably where tea may be served. That is, unless you're talking about "teabagging" and that kind of "tea party." [You see, snide comments in April by some cable news, and other, TV network nitwits and nincompoops labeling TEA Party protesters as "teabaggers" (snigger, snigger, snork, snork, coffee out through your nose, tee-hee, simper, simper, sigh, sigh) "educated" me about some in the gay community practicing what's called "teabagging."] So, since I'm all about being "Taxed Enough Already" (TEA) and do occasionally enjoy a cup of hot tea or a glass of iced tea but am definitely not into "teabagging," I use TEA Party, just to be grammatically correct, accurate and clear.

Anyway, this organizing meeting was voluntarily "organized" by a couple of guys who had voluntarily collected email addresses from those of us who had voluntarily attended a local 4th of July TEA Party and wanted to be kept informed of other, similar upcoming events which we could voluntarily attend and/or otherwise support. I wasn't paid to attend, nor was I coerced into attending. Heck, they didn't even serve refreshments, not even tea.

This organizing meeting was held in the mid-sized meeting room of a local library. They expected about 20 to 30 people to show up. There were over 100 of us there ..... Republicans, Federalists, Independents, Libertarians and moderate Democrats ..... some from the distance of several counties away ..... on a Wednesday midweek work night ..... from 8-10PM ..... when we could all have been relaxing, spending time with our families or watching our favorite TV shows. And many lingered after the meeting to further exchange ideas and contact information.

This is the kind of concerned citizen, genuine grassroots movement which Obama, his White House henchmen and the Congressional Democrats all want to ignore and deplore, deny and decry, demonize and denigrate, claiming the protests and meetings are organized by the GOP or some other Obama-unapproved organization, funded by this or that nefarious special interest group, and that we participants are "organized" and "enticed" to attend (please refer back to my third paragraph, above).

Besides, it's too late. Already too big and still growing, one might say by leaps and bounds. I'm hearing of more and more local TEA Party events which are having to be moved to larger venues at the last minute because of turnout exceeding planners' projections. Each one seems to be bigger and better attended than the last.

Democrats and other liberals may hold sway in Washington for now and you may ridicule us if you like (some of us know ridicule is a standard Marxist Saul Alinsky tactic anyway), but we won't be relegated to the sidelines any longer. Ignore, deplore, deny, decry, demonize, denigrate, ridicule and relegate us at your own risk. The more of that you do, instead of really listening to what your constituents are upset about, and the more you are aided and abetted in that by the liberal lamestream media's unrepresentative and unbalanced coverage (or selective lack thereof), the more anxious and angry, the more denied and disenfranchised, the more frustrated and furious we will feel and the more persistent and powerful we shall become.

Watch out, Dems and other liberals! A growing giant is finally awake now, and watching everything you do. Try to ridicule and relegate us now if you dare, but a reckoning is coming.