Democrat Dingell Likens Town Hallers To KKK

With friends like these…

Seriously, I don’t get this dumb strategy of painting town hall folks, whether they’re astroturfers or not, as Un-American, like the KKK, etc. It’s not only counterproductive, it’s completely lazy. You could easily marginalize purposefully rowdy people with the facts of the debate and yet this is what we get?

As I’ve said before, if health care reform fails I’m laying the responsibility for that right on the doorsteps of Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer. This systematic demonization of protesters is ridiculous as they had absolutely no problem with anti-war protesters 3 years ago.

Here’s the question: With the White House distancing themselves from this nonsense, why are House Dems still doing it?