Those 'Town Hells" by Investors Business Daily

Please visit the link below to read the complete editorial and also what IBD has to say about Government-Run Healthcare in an IBD Exclusive Series. IBD is one of the few places where you will get facts not spin. Members of Congress need to be reminded that they work for us, The American Taxpayer and their comments that they know how to vote what is best is flat out WRONG. If they don't vote the way their constituents want, then send them to the end of the Unemployment Line in Nov 2010. They can make friends with the people they (Democrats) have put out of work with their runaway spending, runaway deficits, and soon to be runaway taxes.

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Those 'Town Hells'
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted Tuesday, August 04, 2009 4:20 PM PT

Representative Government: Some of the Democrats who want to hijack American health care are not exactly getting a warm welcome from voters back home. It's inspiring to watch our system in action.

Congress tried to ram more than 1,000 pages of health care legislation down the country's throat last month, but was unable to vote on a bill before the House left for its August recess. Lawmakers might yet get away with passing what they are calling reform, but not before some members are verbally blistered by their constituents.

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The media can refer to the citizens as mobs, and Democrats can blame all the animosity on lobbyists, as Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., did when he said Specter and Sebelius fell for a "sucker punch" from the health insurance industry that had set up the clash.

But the industry doesn't need to whip up the crowds. The public on its own is deeply frustrated not only by elitists' attempt to take over their health care decisions, but fed up with a Congress that legislates as if it has a divine right to rule.

Lawmakers need to face the revolution they've fueled with their bailouts and takeovers. Washington has acted like King George III and "erected a multitude of new offices and sent hither swarms of officers to harass" Americans "and eat out their substance."

It is meddling in people's lives and has no business going into the private places it is invading. Americans have both the right and the duty to stand up to forces that want to subjugate them.

Polite discourse is always preferred, but when liberty is threatened by an aggressive government, civil dialogue is not enough. Voters need to exercise their right to press their representatives and influence legislation.

Lawmakers should not be allowed to hide behind claims that they are being accosted by rabble. If they're going to put a boot on people's necks, the people have the right to confront their oppressors.