That’s what Pelosi and Hoyer just called the majority of Americans who don’t want Obamacare. Tell me, Congresscreeps, would that include most of your colleagues who refuse to give up their gold-plated plans, like, say, Niki Tsongas?

CONSTITUENT: My question to you, Congresswoman Tsongas, is that if this is such a great plan, why did you opt out of it when you took the vote [loud applause, standing ovation]?

TSONGAS: People often say why don’t the American people have what those of us in Congress have. [Audience erupts] Let me explain what I have. Let me explain what I have. What I have is a tremendous array — you know, last year when I went to a discussion — what I have is a tremendous array of choices. And I made a choice based on what I was willing to pay for and what made sense in terms of coverage for me and my family. [Audience shouts out: "We want choice! We want choice!] This is essentially what we are creating for the American people. We are creating greater choice.

[Smattering of applause overwhelmed by boos.]

Socialized medicine for us, but not for them. Of Pelosi’s and Hoyer’s conciliatory, reasoned remarks, Jacobsen has this to say:

So this is what it comes to. After eight years of protesters hanging George Bush in effigy, calling him a Nazi, disrupting conservative speeches on campuses by taking over stages or throwing pies, creating websites and movies that wished for Bush’s death, and a myriad of other indignities…. After all this time, Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer discover what it means to be “Un-American.”

What does it now mean to be Un-American? For people, many of them elderly, to stand up at town halls and demand to be heard on the Democratic health care proposals. Rather than the tightly controlled puff pieces which politicians love, the town halls have turned into the one outlet people have to let politicians know how they feel.

Almost all other outlets have been shut down; the mainstream media is overwhelmingly liberal and supportive of the Obama administration, as is academia. We have single party rule in Washington, and it is almost impossible to criticize the Obama administration without being falsely branded a racist.

Town halls have become a primary forum for people who have no voice to be heard. While people attending town halls should not disrupt the proceedings to the extent of shutting them down, people do have a right to voice their opinions loudly if the way the town hall is being run is meant to stifle not encourage debate. Other than the internet, town halls may be the only forum where ordinary people, not connected to the party in power, have a voice.

And here’s another reminder of who’s really unAmerican and who ain’t:

Everyone seems to ignore that Pelosi started this, saying town hall participants were showing up with swastikas, etc. That’s calling them Nazis, as Dick Durbin referred to our Gitmo interrogators from the Senate floor. I’ve been listening to the left compare George W. Bush to Hitler for eight years. I’ve been listening to Democrats and the left compare conservatism to Nazis my whole career. This time I responded. In kind, by comparing the radical left policies of the Nazis to today’s radical left leadership of the Democrat Party. I’m not surprised they don’t like it.

I’m not surprised either, nor should anyone else be. Neither should we give a damn. Byron York appends this stark notification:

Don’t look for anyone to back down in this particular fight.

Nope. Not a chance. The Democrat Socialists and their henchmen know this is the end-game; unfortunately for them, now the rest of us do too.

UnAmerican beatdown update! Steyn:

Gotta love this “post-racial America”: Democrat union heavies can beat up a black guy using racial epithets and leave him in a wheelchair unable to speak — and happily (unlike, say, a black professor being asked for picture ID) it’s not “symbolic” of anything at all. Not a Sharpton in sight to speak up for him: Mr. Gladney’s only shot at fame is an entry in The Guinness Book of Records under “Least Famous Black Hate-Crime Victim In America.”

And Krauthammer:

Look, Democrats are out of control on this. Under Bush, dissent was the highest form of patriotism in America. And now it’s a form of Nazi insurrection.

Last year community organizing was such a high calling that the Democrats elected one [community organizer] to the highest office in the land. And now if you organize a community it’s called a mob.

Not only is it “socialized medicine for thee, but not for me,” it’s also “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism — except when you guys do it.” And also by way of the Corner, here’s a look back at how reasonable, measured, and civil dissent was back when the America-hating Left still believed free speech was an inviolable, Constitutionally-protected right.