People’s will can’t be ignored indefinitely

Bob Jack, North Las Vegas

Monday, Aug. 10, 2009 | 2:01 a.m.

In the form of town-hall rallies on health care, liberals are getting a dose of their own medicine, and they don’t like it. The Obama administration and the Democrat-controlled Congress are bent on shoving down the throats of the American people a health care agenda that has outraged masses of people. Both the administration and the leaders in Congress mistakenly believe that the election in 2008 gave them a mandate to do anything they want. Nothing could be further from reality.

They are finding that out, and they do not know how to deal with the passionate and powerful pushback by the American people. The rallying cry in town-hall meetings across the nation on health care is “You work for us.” Still, the Obama administration and congressional representatives are refusing to get the true message — either listen to the people or get out. They ignore the will of the people at their own political peril.

The existence of “group think” in the Obama camp will be the source of its undoing, such as labeling the throngs of passionate crowds attending town-hall meetings as “mobs.” It is the will of the people that will win the ultimate debate over health care in this country, not administration personnel and congressional representatives who refuse to listen to their bosses — the American people.