AVERAGE AMERICAN DERANGEMENT SYNDROME

The left has always had contempt for the average American but now its become a mental illness, from RightWingNews:

Such a disorder can only be called "Average American Derangement Syndrome." Below are a few recent examples...

-The Democratic National Committee wrote, "Republicans and their allied groups...are inciting angry mobs of a small number of rabid right wing extremists funded by K Street lobbyists to disrupt thoughtful discussions about the future of health care in America taking place in Congressional districts across the country."

-The Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, stated, "They [protesters] are carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on healthcare."

-Senate Majority leader, Harry Reid, belittled the "loud, shrill voices trying to interrupt town-hall meetings."

-The Majority leader in the House, Steny Hoyer, a Democrat from Maryland, called those who oppose healthcare reform "very rabid people...Normal citizens just do not act that way."

- White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs said, "I hope people will take a jaundiced eye to what is clearly the Astroturf nature of grass-roots lobbying. This is manufactured anger."

- Jennifer Crider, spokesperson for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, stated, "Conservative activists don't want to have a conversation. They want to disrupt."

- Representative Lloyd Doggett, a Democrat from Texas, avowed, "This mob...did not come just to be heard, but to deny others the right to be heard."

- Representative Gerry Connolly, a Democrat from Virginia and president of the freshman Democrats in Congress, stated that right-wing groups are moving the healthcare debate to "a dangerous level" by using false facts to create anger. He said, "When you look at the fervor of some of these people who are all being whipped up by the right-wing talking heads on Fox, to me, you're crossing a line. They're inciting people to riot with just total distortions of facts."

- Democratic strategist Donna Brazile stated that, "This little small band of protesters are trying to stop members [of Congress] from doing their jobs. They know they can't win the debate so they want to shut down the conversation...It looks like that mob scene coming out of Florida in 2000."