And then he praises the Homeland Security memo that warned about "right-wing political violence!"

The person who drafted that homeland security memo has gained very good reason to be worried. The guns are coming out. The risks are real.

It's not enough for conservatives to repudiate violence, as some are belatedly beginning to do.

Do you suppose Frum could tell us: what violence is it we're "belatedly" repudiating? The potential violence that might have happened ...but didn't?

Or the actual violence perpetrated by those Leftist union thugs?

Please do take the time to click here and read the whole, magnificent Fisking.  And, once you do, then maybe you'll ask yourself the question that always pops into my mind when I hear or see or read of our David: What is the purpose of a David Frum?  If you have an answer, please do leave one in the comments for this posting.  Lord knows, I haven't been able to figure out a reason for why he exists on this, God's good Earth.

Statement from the American College of Surgeons Regarding
Recent Comments from President Obama

CHICAGO—The American College of Surgeons is deeply disturbed over the uninformed public comments President Obama continues to make about the high-quality care provided by surgeons in the United States. When the President makes statements that are incorrect or not based in fact, we think he does a disservice to the American people at a time when they want clear, understandable facts about health care reform. We want to set the record straight.

Yesterday during a town hall meeting, President Obama got his facts completely wrong. He stated that a surgeon gets paid $50,000 for a leg amputation when, in fact, Medicare pays a surgeon between $740 and $1,140 for a leg amputation. This payment also includes the evaluation of the patient on the day of the operation plus patient follow-up care that is provided for 90 days after the operation. Private insurers pay some variation of the Medicare reimbursement for this service.

Three weeks ago, the President suggested that a surgeon’s decision to remove a child’s tonsils is based on the desire to make a lot of money. That remark was ill-informed and dangerous, and we were dismayed by this characterization of the work surgeons do. Surgeons make decisions about recommending operations based on what’s right for the patient.

We agree with the President that the best thing for patients with diabetes is to manage the disease proactively to avoid the bad consequences that can occur, including blindness, stroke, and amputation. But as is the case for a person who has been treated for cancer and still needs to have a tumor removed, or a person who is in a terrible car crash and needs access to a trauma surgeon, there are times when even a perfectly managed diabetic patient needs a surgeon. The President’s remarks are truly alarming and run the risk of damaging the all-important trust between surgeons and their patients.

We assume that the President made these mistakes unintentionally, but we would urge him to have his facts correct before making another inflammatory and incorrect statement about surgeons and surgical care.

About the American College of Surgeons
The American College of Surgeons is a scientific and educational organization of surgeons that was founded in 1913 to raise the standards of surgical practice and to improve the care of the surgical patient. The College is dedicated to the ethical and competent practice of surgery. Its achievements have significantly influenced the course of scientific surgery in America and have established it as an important advocate for all surgical patients. The College has more than 74,000 members and is the largest organization of surgeons in the world.

Good for them.  As someone who has over ten doctors and has been caught-up in the current of the health care stream for three-plus years, and will be for the rest of my life, I can tell you that the vast majority of physicians I have dealt with are some of the most professional, dedicated, and concerned people I have ever met.  The calumnies hurled by Barack Hussein Obama against the surgeons is despicable.  He should be ashamed of himself, but, then again, the man has no shame, as we've seen time and time again.

However, it is now evident that an ugly campaign is underway not merely to misrepresent the health insurance reform legislation, but to disrupt public meetings and prevent members of Congress and constituents from conducting a civil dialogue. These tactics have included hanging in effigy one Democratic member of Congress in Maryland and protesters holding a sign displaying a tombstone with the name of another congressman in Texas, where protesters also shouted "Just say no!" drowning out those who wanted to hold a substantive discussion.

These disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differing views — but of the facts themselves. Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American. Drowning out the facts is how we failed at this task for decades.

Here, in just two paragraphs, we see the arrogance and ignorance of the Left.  If these two really believe this, then they are foolish cretins with an Obama-like lack of knowledge of American History.  If they don't believe what they've written, then this is the most cynical and debased kind of politicking.  I would bet that it is a combination of both.  That these two were able to rise to such positions of power and be able to hold their offices for any significant length of time speaks to the debauched nature of the Democratic Party, specifically, and to the degraded state of The Republic, generally.

Over at The Classic Liberal, Mike Todd takes on this op-ed and Speaker Pelosi's claim that the anti-Obamacare supporters are using Nazi symbolism:

First, Pelosi's "Nazi" claim ... The term Nazi refers to Adolf Hitler's National Socialist German Workers’ Party. The Nazi Party's "Twenty-Five Point Programme" includes:

... that the State shall make it its primary duty to provide a livelihood for its citizens ... the nationalization of all businesses which have been formed into corporations ... profit-sharing in large enterprises ... extensive development of insurance for old-age … land reform suitable to our national requirements …

Hmmm ... sounds a lot like the Democratic Party platform if you ask me. In a 1931 interview, Hitler told a pro-business newspaper:

“I want everyone to keep what he has earned subject to the principle that the good of the community takes priority over that of the individual. But the State should retain control; every owner should feel himself to be an agent of the State… The Third Reich will always retain the right to control property owners.”

Once again, we have an eery correlation to the Democratic Party platform. The Nazis hated "profit." In it's place, the economy was "guided" through regulation, based on the needs of the State. The Nazi State used government takeovers and/or threats of takeover, in order to get companies to comply. Nazi's heavily regulated agriculture, hated big banks, demanded 2-years mandatory volunteer service to the State, favored abortion of "undesirables," and promoted a "green" economy.

Oh, and the Nazis were strongly favored nationalized health care too!

Then of course, we have the Nazi symbolism of the Democratic Party's plan...

Mr. Todd then contrasts the new Obamacare logowith a very similar Nazi banner and continues his well done takedown.

Please do take the time to click here and read his full posting.

SIDENOTE: I don't think the Democrats are Nazis, but it is interesting that they, as Mike Todd and others have shown, hold many of the same beliefs.  Will they herd us into concentration camps and/or sic an equivalent of the Gestapo on us?  No.  Rather, they will be killing us softly with their song.