White House Vows to Defend Democrats on Health Reform, Will 'Punch Back Twice as Hard'
Top White House officials counsel Democratic senators, promise the party and allies will respond with twice the force if any individual lawmaker is criticized in television advertising.AP
From PowerlineThe Chicago Way 2009
The Obama administration unveiled its strategy for dealing with the eruption of populist protest against the health care cramdown to Democratic Senators yesterday: It will punch back twice as hard. What does that mean? During the campaign, Obama invoked Jim Malone's lecture to Elliot Ness in The Untouchables: "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun," Obama said at a fundraiser in Philadelphia. Obama omitted Malone's gloss on the lesson: "That's the Chicago way."
Jim Hoft documents the contribution of the friends of Barack Obama to the doings outside the Rep. Russ Carnahan townhall in St. Louis yesterday. The friends of Barack Obama also turned up yesterday at the townhall featuring Rep. Kathy Castor outside Tampa Bay, Florida.
The mainstream media will dutifully report the emergence of Obama's thugs as representing a lapse in civility on the part of those who are revolting against Obamacare. The truth is that it represents the imposition of "the Chicago way" on the resistance.
Violence (Sort Of) Erupts at Florida Town Hall
The Democrats have been complaining about "violence" and "mob rule" because opponents of government medicine have attended town halls sponsored by Democratic Congressmen and voiced their opposition to Obamacare. Those complaints have been silly. Last night, however, something approaching violence did occur at a town hall in Ybor City, Florida. The event was sponsored by a Democratic legislator and it featured an appearance by Democratic Congresswoman Kathy Castor, a strong advocate of Obama's government medicine plan. The room where the event took place holds 250, but 500 people showed up, including many opponents of the Democrats' health care plan.
What happened is described in this article in the Tampa Tribune--note how closely the reporter follows the Democratic Party line--but can be better evaluated through this video. The person who uploaded it writes, "Kathy Castor's union thugs beat up a guy (in the green shirt - evidence 3:21) and shut the doors to prevent the opposing opinions from being heard." He may have had reason to know this, but you can't tell from the video whether the people in question (who do indeed look thuggish) work for a union or not:
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