Sucker Punch

Sen. Dick Durbin has a warning for his colleagues in Congress out and about pressing for an Obama-style takeover of the health care system.

"I hope my colleagues won't fall for a sucker punch like this. These health insurance companies and people like them are trying to load these town hall meetings for visual impact on television."

So, any ordinary individual that might attend one of these meetings has become a lobbyist for the insurance industry. There could not possibly be another motivation.

No, the only people who could be against this sort of government intervention into our private lives are de facto representatives of evil corporations who live to profit off the ill-health of true, patriotic Americans.

We need to get the narrative straight. Individual citizens that take the time to show up to town hall style meetings are merely insurance company dupes trying to load meetings for visual impact, but paid ACORN representatives showing up to protest against the flavor of the month outrage is always being done out of selflessness.

Who is the sucker here?