Paul Burka believes that the primary election Tuesday here in Texas shows that voters aren’t as angry as everybody keeps saying they are. I think Paul needs to wait to see what happens in November before pronouncing on this topic. The anger isn’t directed at Texas politicians. The anger is at Washington. When primary opponents to the right of conservative republican members of Congress fail to make headway, this is not evidence that anger doesn’t exist. When Massachusetts elects a republican, Scott Brown, to replace Teddy Kennedy, then the world and Paul Burka should realize that something is indeed up.
This fall, when Republicans regain control of the House of Representatives and Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer, Patty Murray, Byron Dorgan, Evan Bayh, Roland Burris, Ted Kaufman, Blanche Lincoln, Michael Bennet, Arlen Specter, and maybe even Russ Feingold and/or Kirsten Gillibrand are replaced by Republicans, then Paul Burka will see the anger in action.
Here is Dan Riehl expressing the anger and frustration felt by many. Instapundit says he has never seen Dan this angry. Here is a snippet from Dan:
This neophyte, this joke we have in the White House has absolutely no idea of the force and the rage he is about to unleash on him and his entire political party. If there are not enough responsible adults left within his party to rein in this accidental, affirmative action jerk, this self-styled, extremely flawed little man, then his party is worthless to America. It deserves to be marginalized electorally and, ultimately, utterly destroyed, before being relegated to the dung heap of history with the rest of the marxist, socialist clowns Americans have dispatched before.
Do you see the anger now, Mr. Burka? If not, let’s all check in again around November 3rd or so. If the Democrats insist on ramming through this monstrosity of a health care bill, then they will see anger in action at the ballot box.
Here is a bit of Kristen Soltis’ summation:
What I find most astounding is how Democrats have passed up an opportunity to both reform health care and remain in a strong position by doing this with a more scaled-down, piece-by-piece process. The best thing the Democrats could do at this point is take the Republicans’ advice and hit the reset button. These bills are so toxic and so loaded down with nonsense that the American people will be outraged if they pass. Why not start over, bring Republicans on board for commonsense items like tort reform, and come out with a political victory and some change to the system?