When Paul Ryan put out his plan to end Medicare and replace it with a voucher system, he took heat. Not from the DC press corps, who lauded his "seriousness" for putting forth a "proposal". It was a godawful proposal, but it was "serious" and all.
When he went back to his district, however, a bunch of his constituents were less than pleased. And Wisconsin had a case of the "uppities" last spring, if you may recall. So Ryan began to stop having public appearances and began charging admission to his events.
Today, Eric Cantor cancelled an event at UPenn because the event was to be "open to the public". Occupy Philly was going to be there and they were going to say unkind things and maybe yell and shout.
Oh, my stars and garters!
Maybe my despondency over the effectiveness of the GOP obstruction strategy is misplaced. Maybe when these self serving cretins have to actually face actual voters, they may discover that there really is a 99% out there. Ot at least a 73%, because we all know that 27% of Americans would vote for Genghis Khan before they would vote for Obama.
If you take the way that the GOP leadership hides from real voters and add that to the widespread and well documented efforts of the GOP to restrict voting wherever they can, I think there is only one conclusion to draw.
The GOP hates democracy. Hates a republican form of government. Hates freedom.
If I'm wrong, I will happily debate either Eric Cantor or Paul Ryan.
Say Zuccotti Park on Sunday? I'm free until about 4pm.
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