Who are the R.O.P.E. bunch?
They are the Reid-Obama-Pelosi-Enablers.
They are the liberal establishment and their supporters who are enabling Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to lie to the American people and to deny the extent of disapproval that the American people are demonstrating as it relates to their policy direction.
All across the nation, Americans are getting increasingly angry at what they are seeing.
They have seen a pattern of producing voluminous legislative packages that no one knows what is exactly contained in them and then suddenly commence voting to pass those legislative initiatives before being given a proper hearing.
They have seen Congress quickly pass a Cap-and-Trade bill that amounted to a tax on the air we breathe and that will be the greatest transfer of wealth the nation has ever known.
Now the American people are witnessing the R.O.P.E. bunch rush through an over one thousand page bill to reform the nature of healthcare in our nation and have the federal government assume control of a sector of the economy that accounts for more than 17% of the gross domestic product.
President Obama took more than six months to choose the right dog for his family yet he gave Congress half that time to propose and pass legislation that would determine the quality, affordability and availability of healthcare in America. If you are like me, you might think that people’s health is an issue that is worthy of much more time, attention, consideration and sincere debate than the issue of which hypoallergenic dog is best suited to run around the White House.
So yes! Many Americans are mad!
Admittedly not all Americans are already fed up with President Obama and the liberal leadership of Congress and their tactics. Some are just ignorant and they comfortably enjoy membership in the R.O.P.E. bunch. They are content to enable the administration’s statist and collectivist mindset and they have no concern over the total disregard they show for the intentions of the founding principles of our hopefully still great nation.
Many Americans, even those who did accept Barack Obama’s claim to offer “change we can believe inâ€, are troubled by the rush to federal control and socialism that his policies are bringing to America. Many more were even brought to tears when they saw the White House take a totalitarian approach to dissenting opinions and asked Americans to report any views that opposed the President’s health control policies to them at flag@whitehouse.gov.
For a vast number of people this was eerily reminiscent of the communist practice of policing information and only allowing that which was vetted by the state to be disseminated to the public.
But this mentality goes beyond just the McCarthy like request to report to the White House dissenting opinions that they indiscriminately define as fishy. The President, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Democrats all over have taken a page out the ruling regime in Iran and labeled those who oppose them as fringe groups, mobs, radicals, dangerous and Republican operatives. In Iran when protestors recently demonstrated against shady election results the Ayatollah depicted the same things of them. That is of course with the exception of claiming that those dissenters were backed by Republicans. Instead the Ayatollah said that those rebel rousers were backed by the American devil.
Through the Democrat National Committee, Ayatollah Obama and the R.O.P.E. bunch even produced an ad depicting those who oppose the administration as violent mobs.
This has been the case with any voices of dissent that the left encounters. For months the liberal leadership of the United States has used these words to describe American who participate in the Tea party protests that take place all across America. They claim that they are all Republican backed operatives, racists and radical fringe groups.
The truth is that there are many Republicans involved. There are even some Republican affiliated organizations devoting time to opposing the direction the nation is going in. However, the G.O.P. as an organization is in disarray. Nationally the party does not have any effective organization mechanism in place. If it had, a few months ago, they would have performed much better in the November elections than they actually did. The Republican Party is not yet capable of mobilizing the vast numbers of people showing up at town hall meetings and organizing Tea Party protests in every state in the nation. I wish they did have the ability and I look forward to when they do, but in the mean time, we are not there yet.
The federal government fails to acknowledge that reality and they fail to admit the truth about these protesters. Instead they simply try to write them off as inconsequential and claim that they are just Republicans.
But they are not just Republican voices.
They are American voices.
They are the voices of Democrats, Libertarians and Independents too. They are people who have never before been compelled to pick up a sign and protest or demand that their government hear them. But after seeing the extremes of liberalism in action, they have been compelled to take a stand and just say “No !"
Yet while the President refuses to call terrorists terrorists and while he apologizes for America to foreign governments and extends hands of friendship to our enemies his administration calls fellow Americans dangerous mobs and characterizes them as inconsequential fringe groups.
The gall and wizardry of President Obama is more than disturbing. It is dangerous and although
the approach may work with the Reid-Obama-Pelosi-Enablers (R.O.P.E.) “it won’t play in Peoriaâ€.
As for me, if this is the change America was suppose to believe in, let me click my heels together three times because “Toto, I have a feeling were not in Kansas anymoreâ€.






Comments: 56
Sorry, being loudest and rudest does NOT make you the majority. It makes you discourteous idiots... noisy, wrong, discourteous idiots.
And I will add, saying something is a lie doesn't make it a lie, just an opinion. Neither does claiming that the right wingnuts are "we the nation" (see Anthony's comment below) make it a fact. They may delude themselves into thinking the rest of us are a small minority but we showed in different in November.
~M
And as for people protesting and screaming about this, its time Americans got involved in politics. Elections have consequences and Obama has made damn sure Repubs, 3d parties, indies, and some in his own party are now fully aware of that. That is one of few good things that has come out of the administration so far
Would you like us to behave like hippies and get stoned, drop out, take drugs? What would please you? Most of the shouting is over the bussed in groupies of the left. Acorn is front and center.
Anthony Del Pellegrino Aug 8, 2009, 12:14pm EDT
Chuch Schmuck.......Not half as discourteous, disrespectful, disingenuous, distasteful, disruptive and despicable as you liberal hypocrites who paid workers and organized ACORN and union thugs to scream your epitaphs and hang the President in effigy while burning American flags and waving your fists when we the nation tried to reform Social Security or fight tyranny and defend freedom. But as usual, the hypocrisy of the left shows itself and proves me right with every word you losers spew.
When will Americans again demand truth from its government and news organizations? When will Americans once again have the actual facts so hat we can make intelligent decisions about issues that affect us?
Not until people stop fighting amongst ourselves and start fighting for truth and honesty in government and news organizations. Both sides are at fault in this, both sides have used misinformation and smear campaigns, both sides have helped to foment this atmosphere in today's political arena.
Lee says: +sigh+ The violence started with SEIU. But even before that Congressmen had decided to just not have townhalls ... not from fear of violence but from fear of accountability to their constituents.
It might yet come to violence, may God forbid it; but that's not the concern when Congressmen don't schedule, post false schedules, don't return calls or even answer their phones . . . before they even leave Washington.
When they made themselves unavailable in a variety of ways, including stacking the room with their own favored supporters ... that was not because of fear of violence.
It's because of their arrogance - they won and the rest of us must just deal with it.
But mainly, it was because of their fear of facing the music they themselves have composed. +shrug+
There is no valid rebuttal for that. President Obama is going further and cutting deeper and deeper into our liberties than anyone ever has to date.
lecia c Aug 10, 2009, 2:21pm EDT
so gary since bush broke the law, raped our constitiution and destroyed our liberities it is ok for obama to do so too?
The politics of anger, however, do not lead to good legislation or good governance.
There is another word for being so very angry.
Mad.
wtf? where do you get your data?
If so, then I take it you do not think that conservatives in the USA are expressing anger frequently, since it is mostly conservatives who are angry about the Obama health plan. If I am correct in this assumption I'd love to hear you defend that position. Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly are not expressing anger all the time? The people who call into those shows are not expressing anger all the time?
Really?
The comparison I would make would be to a house guest. In the case of Bush this was a house guest who overstayed his welcome, put his boots up on the furniture and helped himself to the contents of the fridge. In the case of Obama all he did was walk through the door.
Yes, Anthony there are conerned citizen on BOTH sides of the aisle about this bill and health care in general and by all means let's have a debate about it. The problem is the health industry DOESN'T want this debate to take place. They want the status quo.
They are ginning up the hate on both sides - they WANT us at each other's throats so that way NOTHING is done - they win and the American people get screwed AGAIN.
and Anthony - the good and decent people of the Republican party should get rid of the right wing extremists and return to the values of traditional conservatism and I can say the same about the Democrats
Sad.
That is insanity, and dangerous insanity. In all of history the worst evils were justified by those who convinced themselves that they were special in the eyes of God.
People committed the terrorist acts of 9-11. And yes, it was a warning. It was a warning to the United States that you can't ignore the harm that your own nation has done to others in the world and expect that it will never cost you. The terrorists are heinous bastards and not to be defended. But the reason there are heinous bastards gunning for America is because America has imposed and supported heinous bastard dictators who oppressed (and still oppress) many of the people in these countries.
The modern nations of Israel was formed by the allied powers at the end of World War II. Just because it exists on part of the land once occupied by ancient Israel and uses the same name does not make it the same place.
Rory if you don't mind my asking What are you? Are you an athesist? Do you believe that when you die that is all there is?
Israel was God's people than and they are today. Yes they are different today but so is everyone else.
I believe the Christian Bible contains God's truth, but not that it is literal truth but rather allegorical truth. This, to me, is a very important distinction.
(The city of Rome is definitely still the same place, but one can hardly see the modern Italians who live there as indistinguishable from the citizens of the Roman empire of antiquity. They don't even speak the same language.)
Thank God our First Amendment Rights don't say that we can only speak what others like to hear, but the real problem of speaking is that few, very few, are interested in listening to anything which is not their own opinion, so we don't grow, unless you call growing apart, growth.