There’s something happening here…

I encourage you to read this piece by Peggy Noonan in the WSJonline.  It is spot on.

You know, I’m really pretty excited to see the groundswell of opposition to Obamacare.  I was frankly despairing that perhaps that spark of distrust in government that is a natural part of the American character had been extinguished.  We’ve all been fat and happy so long it seems.  So, it appears I may have been wrong about that and it is nice to know that when our freedom is on the line, people will respond.

What is really interesting is how the government is responding.  The Speaker of the House calling the protesters “a mob”, likening them to Nazis, and saying such dissent is “unAmerican”.  I mean wow.  Fuel for the fire Ms. Pelosi.  Loved this cartoon:

You know, I came of age in the era of Vietnam war protests.  And I’m getting that kind of feeling again.  Could this be history in the making?  Who knows, but I’ll be damned if I can’t get that Buffalo Springfield ditty out of my head…

There’s battle lines being drawn

Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong

Young people speaking their minds

Are getting so much resistance from behind

–Stephen Stills