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So, I’ll answer my own question before I write much so as not to suggest the wrong tone to this post. Yes, I think it can, but to do so, I think we have to really understand what is going on.

I have 3 or 4 drafts of blog posts that all deal with what is going on surrounding the Health Care battle. all are posts started, and then left to be finished later. I always get to this point where I’m looking for a larger, more general “umbrella understanding” of what is going on, and I wonder if I need to write that post first or after, or pull all of these ideas together or what. And then they sit there, all as unfinished drafts. So, today, I have some time, and let’s see if I can get some of tis stuff out of the drafts area and out there for others to read and comment on.

The video clip is Katy Abram who is now “famous” for asking Arlen Specter what he was going to do to return the country to the one left by our founders and the Constitution. Later on Hardball, she was interviewed and comes of, in my opinion, as someone unwilling to stand behind her own words. She doesn’t want socialized medicine, yet she wouldn’t call for the repeal of our current programs are that just that. She stands as an example of the type of hyperbole sound bite that is meant to inflame people, but hasn’t much reality underneath it. It would be easy to dismiss it there for, but we need not do that. This tendency to say something but fail to grasp or own the reality of what you are calling for is  real threat to any  sense of real dialogue.

My favorite line was when he asked her if her family would be in the “over $250,000 a year” group that will be taxed more,and she had no idea. Her husband handles all of that kind of thing.

YouTube – “Hardball”: Katy Abram Told Medicare Is “Successful Socialism”.

Rep Kratovil Hung in Effigy

This refusal to want to dialogue, but rather throw out sound bites isn’t as bad as some of the other things occurring. Most scary was… This is where I get stopped. Any number of things are “the most scary” and all of a sudden, I am feeling fairly overwhelmed by it all.

But definitely very high on the scary list, was Rep. Kratovil being hung in effigy by a town hall protestor.  ILook at the smiling face of the protestor. Amazing. the definition of “hang in effigy is “a portrait, statue, or the like, esp. of a person;  likeness; often, a crude representation of a despised person or protesting, as against that person’s policies.” He is a freshman representative. All he did was vote for a bill and he is despised and his policies hated?

The easiest answer to the question, “what is going on here” seems to be that some people are doing everything in their power to stop the Health Care debate, but I think it is far more than that. But exactly what, I don’t know. What do you think?