THE RIGHT SPEAKS FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE?

Perk up your ears and help us listen for examples of Republicans asserting that they “are speaking for the American people.”  They say it all the time.  Guess it’s one of those political strategies that calls for repeating — over and over again — any untruth, in hopes of fooling the American people.

Here are a few examples.  

Last week Representative Mike Spence (R-Indiana) stated on the floor of the House, “the American people don’t want the American military to be used to advance a liberal political agenda.”  He was talking about the repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy in the military.

The problem with Congressman Spence’s claim is that almost 80% of the American people DO want DADT repealed.  It looks like “the American people DO want the American military to be used to advance a liberal political agenda.”  Either that or the Republicans are so out of step with the American people that they are now on the wrong side of popular opinion, and actually think that popular opinion is a “liberal political agenda.”  So, how is it that Republicans can legitimately claim that their minority views represent “the American people?”

Well, they can’t legitimately make that claim, but it doesn’t seem to stop them. 

Here’s our other current favorite Republican claim that they speak for the American people.  “The American people want this Health Care Law repealed.”  The problem with this bald-faced assertion is that the polls show that 55% of the American people prefer to “give the new law a chance to work, and if needed make changes to it as it unfolds.”  Once again, Republicans claim to speak for the American people when in fact their views are in the minority!

Watch and listen and let us know if you pick up any more of these bogus claims. It’s really shocking to repeatedly hear them assert that they are speaking for us, when they’re actually speaking for their base of Tea Partiers!