The ACLU has a frightening web animation predicting the future of pizza delivery in a society that shows complete disregard for the right to privacy. 

Josh Gerstein at Politico wonders if the references to national health insurance aren’t a critique of a single-payer system. 

Of all the outrageous townhall videos, this is at the very top of the list. 

Liberals should know something is amiss in their thinking when a Democratic Senator pushes back against liberal ads with one of his own.  Keep in mind Nelson is not even up for reelection next year.

This morning we learned that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told liberal interest groups to stop targeting moderate House and Senate Democrats.  Apparently, Emanuel became very fired-up and made it clear the Administration was not pleased with their attacks.

Greg Sargent reports:

Sources at the meeting tell me that Emanuel really teed off on the Dem-versus-Dem attacks, calling them “f–king stupid.” This was a direct attack on some of the attendees in the room, who are running ads against Dems right now.

Emanuel also indicated the White House is very concerned about losing the healthcare debate.

“He started out with, `We’re 13 and 0 going into health care,’” one source at the meeting said, meaning that Rahm was touting the White House’s string of pre-health care legislative victories.

 

“This momentum is necessary to do all these other things. We have a lot of momentum right now, and any loss spoils that momentum that we’ve built up,” was how the source described the gist of what Rahm said.

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D) has repudiated Democratic leadership claims that grassroots protests at healthcare town hall meetings are “manufactured.”  She has tweeted twice on the subject, praising ordinary citizens for exercising their rights:

Real grassroots on both sides of the healthcare issue, both sides organizing. Yay to both, yay for democracy,hope both are civil and polite.

I disagree that the people showing concern over some healthcare proposals are “manufactured” Real folks, strong opinions.

In contrast, here’s what the DNC has to say:

“This mob activity is straight from the playbook of high-level Republican political operatives,” the Democratic National Committee says in a new Web video. “They have no plan for moving our country forward, so they’ve called out the mob.”

After a DNC web video told liberals to complain to the RNC over protests at healthcare forums, the RNC set up their phone system to reroute the callers—to the DNC.

At the end of the video, the DNC instructs people to call the Republican National Committee to express outrage. Callers who dial the RNC’s main number to voice their concern about the DNC’s charges are told to press 1, which sends them to the DNC’s main switchboard.

RNC Chairman Michael Steele took credit for the idea:

“I thought it was a good idea,” Steele said. “Don’t sit there and think you’re going to direct a bunch of angry liberals to call the RNC when I know full well what that’s all about. I get the joke. My response was, talk to your own party, because they’re the ones ginning this up.”