The more you watch this unfold the more frightening it becomes. The phenomena we are witnessing of primarily white folks screaming with rage about how Obama isn’t an American, spray painting swastikas on Rep Scott’s office and having the gall to display such Nazi symbols at Jewish Senator Cardin’s townhall (see think progress) the more we see this is NOT about healthcare. Its about personal hatreds. Grudges. Discomfort in having a president who is not shall we say of the same color as his 42 predecessors. The worst America has to offer.
Below we see the rage and hate tonight in Lubbock. We see it in emails being sent to Rep Scott and other AA members of Congress. And we hear what Rep Dingell recalls from history of what these thugs are.
We also see Congresswomen Christensen and Edwards are fighting for-a better deal for the AA and minority communities of this country. Will the CBC be ignored on their demands for a better day for their constituents after all they are enduring? We cannot let that happen. Cannot.
First Im glad to see Obama on the trail. He is best in town halls and should do a dozen this August. Every talent of this party should be deployed right now to get this done. Too many depend on it and now too many have had their lives and limb threatened across the nation. Rollcall says it appears Obama has shifted rhetoric towards the reconciliation process:
Obama Says Getting Health Reform Done Trumps Bipartisanship
Aug. 11, 2009, 3:24 p.m.
By Keith Koffler
Roll Call Staff

President Barack Obama on Tuesday appeared to begin to distance himself from the bipartisan health reform effort under way in the Senate Finance Committee, stating that getting a bill done was more important than making sure the legislation is bipartisan.
Obama, who spoke at a health care town-hall meeting in Portsmouth, N.H., said GOP panel members Chuck Grassley (Iowa), Mike Enzi (Wyo.) and Olympia Snowe (Maine) "are diligently working to see if they can come up with a plan that would get both Republican and Democratic support."
But then he noted what he perceived as the urgency of the health care crisis and said: "I say, we have to get it done. My hope is we can get it done in a bipartisan fashion, but the most important thing is to get it done for the American people."
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As the right wing GOP moves further and further towards violent extremism against the President and others we get word of this whopper in my home state of texas in Lubbock:
Texas judge defends his racist poster showing Obama supporters as criminals: ‘I don’t consider it racist.’
Judge Tom Head is under fire for an offensive poster he put up on a public bulletin board in the Lubbock, TX county courthouse. The poster shows nine arrest photos of people wearing Obama t-shirts, accompanied by the text:
Did you ever see anyone arrested wearing a Bush T-shirt, or for you older folks, an Eisenhower?, Gerald Ford?, Ronald Reagan?, even Nixon?, or any political t-shirt? There MUST be a message here, but I can’t quite grasp it, or maybe I’m afraid to.
Above the pictures is a fake narration of a person waking up, putting on an Obama t-shirt, holding up a convenience store, buying drugs, and beating his wife. County commissioners have since removed the poster. But Head is standing by it, saying, "I don’t consider it racist. I still don’t."
More here: http://www.lubbockonline.com/...
http://thinkprogress.org/...
Now look at what Rep Scott is getting at his office-nothing like Obama and black members of congress being called n--gers for pushing refrom. Oh wait this isn’t about reform anymore now is it? Its about racial divides and bigotry.
David Scott on a racial undertone in the debate over health care reform
2:46 pm August 10, 2009, by Jim Galloway
Just got off the phone a few minutes ago with U.S. Rep. David Scott of metro Atlanta, who underlined what he said are some worrisome racial undertones in the current health care debate.
U.S. Rep. David Scott of metro Atlanta/Associated Press
As noted this morning, Scott was the topic of a WXIA TV report over the weekend, which detailed an Aug. 1 confrontation with opponents of health care reform at a town hall meeting in Douglasville.
Scott angrily accused protestors of attempting to "hijack" the meeting.
On Monday, the congressman said he stood by those comments, which were recorded by the city’s cable TV outlet — then truncated into the WXIA report.
"I was going to stand up and get the respect of the constituents of mine that had worked hard to put a meeting together. And I was not going to let [health care protestors] hijack this meeting. We were discussing the life-and-death issues of their future and their homes and their way of life," Scott said. "It was very disrespectful and selfish. I had to speak up for the respect of the people of Douglasville."....
Scott said he understands why he was the target of confrontation. As the only member of Congress who is a member of the Blue Dog and New Democrat caucuses, plus the Congressional Black Caucus, Scott says he has begun to fill the role of go-between on the health care issue.
"I think members of Congress have to stand firm, and they have to be able to realize that we’re in a fight — that this is a serious issue, it is a deliberative issue. But we’re being hanged in effigy," he said.
Scott said he has no problem with protestors exercising their freedom of speech.
"This is a different thing here. We’re dealing a concerted effort to use these town hall meetings to bum rush Democratic congressmen about this issue," Scott said.
While Scott acknowledged the legitimate concerns that many Americans have when it comes to overhauling health care, the congressman also expressed worry about the debate’s undertone. Scott e-mailed me a sampling of some of the rougher health care mail he’s received — the ones with variations of the n-word.
"You were, you are, and you shall forever be but a ———-," one fax to his office reads.
The missive includes a mug of President Barack Obama with a hammer-and-sickle stamped on his forehead.
"The folks are not going to stand for socialized medicine even though most Negroes refuse to stand on their own two feet," says another.
"These people are bringing [in] race — and ‘Negro’ and ‘colored’ and Obama," Scott said. "We should applaud the fact that we have an African-American president and he is working on this. This is a great thing. But it should not be a racial situation. What have we done except look at the problem and move on it?"
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Can the Democratic Party leadership get away with ignoring folks like Rep Edwards and Scott come conference time? After having their votes stolen in Florida in 2000, being disenfranchised in Ohio in 2004 and providing the key bloc of votes in every federal electionf or the dems for decades will their requests on healthcare be denied? By the DEMOCRATIC PARTY?
While many AA congresspersons are getting threats both racial and otherwise as we all have seen-they are also pushing the leadership to include provisions in the bill for the minority communities of America. Will the Blue Dogs give a damned? See members of congress are now being threatened with their lives. They are being called things like n--ger etc.. Let’s see what CBC members are pressing for:
As Congress leaves for recess, CBC keeps health care on the front burner By: Pharoh Martin, NNPA National Correspondent
Posted: Monday, August 10, 2009 2:03 pm
WASHINGTON (NNPA) — As members of Congress begin August recess, temporarily setting aside intense negotiations for a passable healthcare reform bill, the Congressional Black Caucus has vowed to continue pushing for specific provisions that its members feel are vital for African Americans.
The original House and Senate bills would significantly reduce the staggering number of uninsured Americans, of which are disparately Black. But it won’t be as effective if other provisions are not also included, CBC members argue.
They call for expanded data collection, improved healthcare workforce diversity efforts, comparative effectiveness research provisions for the disaggregation of data, community-centric prevention efforts that focus on reducing racial and ethnic health disparities, language and translation services throughout the health care system and a significant investment in community health centers and in community health workers.
Rep. Christensen (a physician herself) wanted Medicaid to become a part of the public plan because, she said, services are not covered in the same degree. For example, Medicaid covers some expensive procedures for children differently than the proposed public plan, and long-term care is not covered the same.
Christensen, the first female physician in the history of the U.S. Congress, pointed out that those whose incomes are not above 400 percent of poverty, which amounts to about $88,000 for a family, will qualify for subsidies if they purchase their coverage from an insurance exchange. This exchange is being considered to go along with the hotly contested public option.
Congresswoman Donna Edwards (D-MD) has also been fighting for the public option to be included in the final health care bill.
"[The] most significant part of the health care bill is the public option," Edwards contends. "It’s a vital option for people who don’t have insurance."
"The doctor would bill the public plan option like Medicare," Edwards said, explaining how the public option would work.
Edwards represents Maryland’s 4th District, home to the state’s affluent Montgomery and Prince George’s counties. Both Washington, D.C. suburban counties boast significant Black populations and are among the richest in the country. Yet, one-fifth of its residents are uninsured.
http://www.louisianaweekly.com/...
Finally Rep Dingell says out loud what these thugs remind him and many others of- the KKK.
When asked last night on MSNBC about the angry mobs he has encountered, Dingell said they remind him of the days when he voted for civil rights in the 1960s:
DINGELL: Well, the last time I had to confront something like this was when I voted for the civil rights bill and my opponent voted against it. At that time, we had a lot of Ku Klux Klan folks and white supremacists and folks in white sheets and other things running around causing trouble.
http://thinkprogress.org/...