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Thursday, August 06, 2009
David Harsanyi :: Townhall.com Columnist
New Rules for Radicals
by David Harsanyi
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Will Congress pass Obamacare by the end of the year?

If you're a virtuous and patriotic American, you may find this column either offensive or misleading. If so, please forward it to White House authorities at the Department of Fishy Activity. (E-mail the good people at flag@whitehouse.gov.)

As many of you have heard, the White House now requests that the public tattle on those of us spreading "fishy" "disinformation" regarding Washington's proposed takeover of your health care. This step, naturally, is for our own good.

Now, don't get overly paranoid, you rabble of freaky right-wing zealots. Judging from the Obama administration's track record, the program will do absolutely nothing other than add billions to the deficit.

The vital thing to bear in mind, though, is that the nation needs a concerted plan to corral this wacko "mob" of "thugs" who recklessly use the First Amendment to decelerate all this forward progress.

We are talking about a moral imperative here. As one senator asserted this week, passing government-run health care is the "sacred duty" of Congress. (Boy, it's a good thing we banished all that moral preening from Washington.)

When your mission is the same as the Lord's herself ... well, you can imagine the kind of scandalous characters populating the opposition camp. It is the type of individual who Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi astutely points out has the tendency to carry "swastikas and symbols like that" to local town hall meetings on health care.

You might be curious to find out what symbols Pelosi believes are "like" swastikas. Maybe she's referring to the Gadsden flag.

In any event, it's true that people who believe in health care choices and free markets are zombies. For one thing, they are entirely too well-dressed to contemplate serious issues independently -- and thank you, Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, for pointing that out. A man without Birkenstocks, after all, is a man without a soul.

Organizing and protesting, as any sensible and compassionate citizen already understands, is exclusively the bailiwick of ideologically diverse and freethinking groups, such as unions.

And really, the most galling aspect of this entire spurious uprising is the rumor that protestors are actually organized. Can you imagine?

The question now becomes: How can we, thinking people, stop this horde of well-heeled, Nazi-loving, insurance industry-funded (and possibly organized) robots? What can we do to destroy our health care? Continued...

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To Robert
Who exactly is kicking God out of society? America has the highest church attendance of any Western nation, and huge protections on the free exercise of religion.

Perhaps you're lamenting that we don't like a theocracy?

afriKa

The Department of Fishy Activity
On a scale of 1-10, does anyone think this thing has legs? Or, is this just another slimy tail with no fins?

I'm sorry, I just couldn't help myself.
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