Glenn Beck: America Senses Something’s Not Right

America Senses Something’s Not Right
Thursday, August 06, 2009 
By Glenn Beck

 

I’ve always wanted to be in the mob and now I am. It’s fantastic: the drugs, the women, the town hall health care protests.

Here’s The One Thing: This isn’t a GOP mob or “manufactured anger.” America — Democrat, Republican and independent — senses in her gut something isn’t right.

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According to the latest polls:

• 65 percent say President Obama is taking on too many issues

• His approval rating is at 50 percent (worse than Bush was after six months)

• He’s fallen 7 points with independents (45 approve, 45 disapprove)

• 52 percent now oppose how he’s handling health care — only 39 percent approve

• More than 3 out of 4 think Obama’s plan will add to the deficit

Why the decline? Because Americans know something isn’t right. Since when are we rushed like this? Since when are politicians the ones who guide our ethics and morals?

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By FRANK RICH

Published: August 22, 2009

“IT is time to water the tree of liberty” said the sign carried by a gun-toting protester milling outside President Obama’s town-hall meeting in New Hampshire two weeks ago. The Thomas Jefferson quote that inspired this message, of course, said nothing about water: “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” That’s the beauty of a gun — you don’t have to spell out the “blood.”

Frank Rich - Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times

The protester was a nut. America has never had a shortage of them. But what’s Tom Coburn’s excuse? Coburn is a Republican senator from Oklahoma, where 168 people were murdered by right-wing psychopaths who bombed a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995. Their leader, Timothy McVeigh, had the Jefferson quote on his T-shirt when he committed this act of mass murder. Yet last Sunday, when asked by David Gregory on “Meet the Press” if he was troubled by current threats of “violence against the government,” Coburn blamed not the nuts but the government.

“Well, I’m troubled any time when we stop having confidence in our government,” the senator said, “but we’ve earned it.”