Robin Givhan of the WaPo deplores that the great unwashed are not better dressed. In the process, she accuses Town Hall meeting attendees of turning “lawmakers into punching bags”:
Dressing Down (In More Ways Than One)
It seems safe to say that of the hundreds of thousands of style guides currently for sale on Amazon, not one of the didactic, shop-your-closet authors was prescient enough to outline the appropriate attire for those public occasions when good citizens decide to behave like raving lunatics and turn lawmakers into punching bags.
Instapundit, Pundette and Althouse talk about Givhan’s taste in clothes. Allow me, then to deplore the violence.
While the elected representatives have been yelled at, the punches have been coming to the protesters:
Gateway Pundit reports that handicapped woman with a walker cries as she tells how union members pushed her out her seat at a town hall. He also posts on other attacks including the beating on Kenneth Gladney, a 38-year-old conservative activist from St. Louis.
But hey, Givhan’s concerned about what to wear.
Among humaniform entities allowed to write for an English-language publication, Robin Givhan ranks as the vapidest. If she has three brain cells to her name, I’d stake the mortgage money that two are on strike and the third is trying desperately to lose weight.
health care when the sole reason for attending is to shout down one’s congressman like a peevish teenager in the midst of a hormonal rage?I guess the author doesn’t like it when the protesters follow ∅bama’s advice, who last year told HIS followers, “I want you to argue and get in their face.”
The author is somewhat catty regarding the protesters who show up in t-shirts and baseball caps. But when the protesters dress up, they get dissed. Note Barbara Boxer’s comment that the protesters she saw couldn’t be genuine: they were too well dressed.
Can’t win for losing: the Demos will do anything to Demo-nize their opposition. Damn them for dressing up, damn them for dressing down. Damn them for following ∅bama’s advice, which is apparently considered good advice only when it is used to support ∅bama, not when it is used to oppose ∅bama.
Irrational: constituents who are angry at Congressmen who support 1000 page bills they haven’t read.
Rational: Congressmen who support 1000 page bills they haven’t read.
Sorry,missed the top part.
From the WaPo article:
I guess the author doesn’t like it when the protesters follow ∅bama’s advice, who last year told HIS followers, “I want you to argue and get in their face.”
> But hey, Givhan’s concerned about what to wear.
Two words: “Combat Gear”.
Kick their asses, the let them whine about our clothing choices through busted teeth.
> If she has three brain cells to her name, I’d stake the mortgage money that two are on strike and the third is trying desperately to lose weight.
Are you suggesting she’s unable to rub two ideas together to form a clue?
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