It's inconceivable to the liberal political establishment and their pals in the media that the people might have legitimate and fully informed objections to the grand government expansion they've orchestrated.

The only answer that makes sense to them is that evil Republicans are scaring people to death.

President Barack Obama came into office with a fat majority of Democrats in Congress, believing his victory was evidence of a giant lurch to the left by what had traditionally been a center-right country.

Liberal Democrats claimed a mandate to rewrite all the rules and saw in the nation's economic desperation an opportunity to implement an agenda that had been consistently rejected by voters in the past

What they're seeing now is a swelling pushback to their interpretation of the chants for change.

As it turns out, Americans haven't lost their natural distrust of a government that grows too big and reaches too deeply into their personal spaces.

They may be mad at corporate CEOs and Wall Street fat cats, but that doesn't mean they're enamored of politicians. They still see the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid as a major part of the problem, and not likely to deliver the solution.
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Democrats are handing their opponents a victory by misjudging the appetite of Americans for a European-style nanny state.
The liberal elite makes a critical error in assuming the protesters don't know what Obama's health care plan stands for and where it's likely to take them. Americans recognize a slippery slope when they're about to slide down one.