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Like most epithets, the u-word says more about the person hurling it than it does about the object of disapproval. So when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called opponents of Democrats' health care reform "un-American" this week, she became the focus of attention, not the vocal protestors at congressional town hall forums. In a column for USA Today, Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer accused those who have showed up at rallies of "drowning out the facts" and pointed to a handful of over-the-top protestors among the many who are genuinely frightened by what the Democrats propose. But the Democrats' name-calling...
Who's Un-American?
You have claimed that you affirm our right to exist because you affirm the rights of the brain dead (Shiavo) and the unborn. What you do deny is the right to make choices while alive. Charles Grassly said that families should determine end of life issues, and yet it was a Republican congress that politicized Shiavo's end of life decisions. I would suppose the family should also determine beginning of life events? But no, it is the Republicans who politicize this too. You say it is a moral issue but it's...