It is no surprise that the left leaning paper USA Today published an editorial by Pelosi and Hoyer about the health care bill in which they call those showing up at the town hall meetings "un-American".  Who are they to dictate to us what is American and what is not?  It's basically because they don't like dissent.  The House Congressional leaders who penned this slap across our faces said nothing when Bush and Palin were hung in effigy.  They said nothing when anti-war protests disrupted political speeches and rallies the last 8 years.  They said nothing as liberal blogs and media concocted stories about President Bush, the war, our soldiers, and other subjects.  Dan Rather got caught doing it and cost him his job, but nothing was said in support of CBS or in condemnation of Rather.  

As far as those attending town halls as being paid hacks or GOP sponsored, I point back to our Tea Party in Effingham on April 15th of this year.  I remember one gentleman that was in his 80s attended and told us that he had never been to a political rally and that our Tea Party was his first.  We had Democrats and Republicans and Independents in the audience that day and they were all angry about what was going on.  And that was before health care was really on the table!!

I think the problem is that Pelosi, Hoyer and the left are so used to be the protester that they don't know what to do when they are the protestee.  They resort to name calling, smear campaigns, and calling in their union thugs or "community organizations" for muscle to stifle debate.

My biggest point of contention is not with the falsehoods they spew about the health care in their editorial - empirical data will trump their lies.  It is the labeling of dissent , debate, or petitioning your member of Congress as un-American.  What is un-American anyway?

Is it un-American for the government to take over a business, fire the CEO, pick the Board of Trustees, and then create a program to subsidize the purchase of vehicles from the very company they own with vouchers provided for by the bank they also own?

Is it un-American to participate in generational theft by placating voters now at the cost of our future generations' wealth, prosperity, and freedom?

Is it un-American to support policies that would destroy the American worker in favor of leading the world in being "green" or supporting the union backed Employee Free Choice Act - aka Card Check? 

Is it un-American to take an oath to uphold the Constitution and then choose to ignore it whenever it gets in the way of what you are trying to accomplish in Congress, White House, or ruling in the Supreme Court (that last one's for you Sotomayor)?

Is it un-American to appoint almost enough Czars as there are states in the Union and make them not answerable to the people or Congress but only to the White House?

Is it un-American to run a snitch on your neighbor campaign out of the White House?

Is it un-American to use a left wing "community organization" such as ACORN that has a history of fraud in order to circumvent the electoral process, limit debate, or possibly rig a census?

We live in a democratic republic in which we elect officials to represent our interests in our place.  We have the right to petition government whether it's done loudly or softly just as long as it's done legally.  Pelosi and Hoyer underestimated the "mandate" they thought they were given in the last election.  People were tired of President Bush, not capitalism, freedom or the Constitution.  Pelosi and Hoyer would make it sound like there has been a dramatic shift of the demography of the voters, but more people now identify themselves as conservative than moderate or liberal.  They have underestimated the voters and now the voters are speaking up.  If we don't speak up, then our silence is their consent.