On Saturday, November 7, 2009, the Democratic Congress approved government healthcare – and with that many more trillions of dollars of debt. President Obama owes a lot to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. But he owes a even more to the real life strawmen that he used to scare his fence riding Democrats: teabag, anti-government … extremists.
President Obama helped the fence riding Democrats make their decision by asking them a simple question:
Mr. Obama, during his private pep talk to Democrats, recognized Mr. Owens election and then posed a question to the other lawmakers. According to Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, who supports the health care bill, the president asked, “Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care? All it will do is confuse and dispirit” Democratic voters “and it will encourage the extremists.”
And with that reassurance, President Obama’s Democratic lackeys signed their own pink slips.
