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One of the benefits coming from the recent congressional town hall meetings -- of which there are many -- is that we now know to what extent the elected class in Washington DC is cognizant of their constituents' positions on the issues; specifically, healthcare. They aren't, especially on the Left side of the aisle. Instead, the elected class in Washington -- and it is true for an overwhelming majority on both sides of the aisle -- has opted-out of their sworn duty to represent their constituents in deference to a blinding loyalty to their political party organizations and the ideologies they hold.

While many of the elected officials in question, their aides, the DNC, MoveOn.org, Organizing for America and the agenda-driven mainstream media talk about the "angry" and "vocal" nature of the town halls, they allude to the notion that the American citizens attending these meetings are not letting the elected officials speak; that they are "shouting down" the Congressmen and Senators as they try to explain a "very complicated" healthcare plan to their constituents. Nothing could be further from the truth.

To believe that the American people haven't heard -- ad nauseam -- the plethora of contorted and contrived talking points meant to sell this gigantic over-reach of government into the private sector health insurance industry is to lie, bald-faced, to anyone within earshot.

- The mainstream media has been talking about nothing else for months.

- Conservative talk radio has been dissecting the five -- not one -- healthcare legislation proposals currently coming out of House and Senate committees for months.

- And President Obama has been focused on healthcare reform -- now healthcare insurance reform (convenient how that morphed) -- ever since he threw his hat into the ring for the 2008 Presidential Election, so much so that his original campaign talking points about him being a champion of a single-payer system is coming back to bite him in his approval poll numbers.

The American people have heard what the elected class has to say about the current proposals coming out of the congressional committees. We have heard the Washington DC insiders' talking points again and again and again. We have heard -- and understand -- what the special interest group crafted proposals are offering, why we need it, why we must pay for it, how it will affect our choices, how it will affect the economy, how it will affect the healthcare we receive, the bureaucratic nightmare being proposed, what the special interest groups will receive, how the elected class will be exempt, and how it will contribute to the saddling of the next generation with insurmountable debt. We have heard it all and we simply don't like what we are hearing, and who can blame us?! To ask American citizens, mindful of the facts, to sit-down and stay quiet -- yet again -- while the self-indulgent from Congress, on orders from Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and President Obama, regurgitate the tired old talking points, while using the tone of a parent talking to an idiot child, needs to be considered the ultimate insult.

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