Rather than admitting there’s something wrong with passing our country’s nation-altering health-care legislation without having even read the bill, the Left, once again, is engaging in the “There’s Something the Matter with Kansas” meme, and that it is the people — not the far-left Democrats — who have something the matter with them!

The most frequently heard slander about the people who are attending the Town Hall meetings in unprecedented numbers is that they are “angry” – as if their anger is somehow proof that their arguments aren’t legitimate.

But “the people” have plenty to be angry about:

Eight months ago, the fledgling Obama administration told us we had to spend $787 billion dollars immediately or we’d go into a depression as deep as that of the 1930s. The Democrats used their majority to rush into law the president’s request, although not one member of Congress had even read the bill. Clearly, the urgency was bogus, as the president went golfing that very weekend and didn’t sign the bill until the middle of the following week. We all now know what 217 out of 220 Republican’s in Congress knew then, which was that it was a bad bill and bound for failure. And guess what? It failed! To this day, not one single American taxpayer knows where that money has gone, outside of payments to ACORN and Hamas.

It’s no wonder people are angry!

A similar ploy is now being used to ram Health-care legislation through Congress – again, unread!  On July 16, the Congressional Budget Office, the non-partisan arbiter for a piece of legislation’s affordability, issued a report saying that the health-care plan making its way through Congress would only add to the deficit and effectively put BIG government between the patient and his or her health-care provider.

Yet, the plan marches forward with another Obama-imposed artificial deadline only two weeks after the Congress returns to session on September 15. This power-play by the administration is planned despite the fact that every poll shows the American people are dead-set against the Democrats’ plan to take control of another 1/6th of the American economy.

It’s no wonder people are angry!

Yet another of the president’s trillion-dollar schemes –- cap and tax – emerges and proves empirically to be an ill-conceived “plan” based on unproven scientific theories that would all but guarantee that China or India (who don’t subscribe to Al Gore’s, business-killing junk-science) will overtake the United States as the world’s greatest economic superpower, with all of the security consequences this guarantees.

It’s no wonder people are angry!

When the American people cannot find a television channel – save one –that doesn’t willingly support and abet President Obama’s clear, leftist agenda — an agenda that should send chills down one’s spine not up their leg — you wonder why they’re angry!

As if all the above were not reasons enough for the legitimate anger of concerned Americans across the land, consider the way the president hopscotches the globe apologizing for his own country while hundreds of thousands of our troops are on the frontlines fighting and dying for it!

While the president treats our long-trusted, staunch allies like Great Britain and Israel shabbily (to say the least) – one got 25 DVD’s as a gift and the other got told where its citizens can live! – he warmly embraces Socialist thugs like Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega, Bolivia’s Evo Morales, and then bows obsequiously at the waist to the Saudi King.

It’s no wonder people are angry!

And when the president – who admitted not knowing the facts — engages in the racial stereotyping and racial animus that he promised he was above and slanders America’s finest law-enforcement officers by attacking the members of the Cambridge Police Department…

It’s truly no wonder why the people are angry!

When the White House’s official website asks that citizens’s turn in fellow citizen’s email addresses if “misinformation” (which is anything that disagrees with the liberal view) about health care is spread, then all Americans have both the right and the responsibility to be angry!

His poorly-vetted cabinet picks have been a mess and his foreign policy is so muddled that no one knows who the power is behind the throne – in the Middle East, is it George Mitchell? John Kerry? Hillary Clinton? Barack Obama?

A whirlwind of “czars” and and “summits”  — does this administration resemble the Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight, or what? When in doubt, what does the clearly in-over-his-head Obama, along with his media acolytes do? Change the subject to “George W. Bush” of course.

Just today, Vermont Senator, Pat Leahy took his Bush “Truth Commission” to the floor of the Senate. Said the senior senator: “How can we restore our moral leadership and ensure transparent government if we ignore what has happened?”

If Leahy is concerned about “transparency” and “moral leadership,” perhaps he should start by investigating the Democrat House Ways and Means Committee Chairman, Charles Rangel and his serial non-payment of taxes, or Democrat William Jefferson’s $90,000 in cold (sorry) cash hidden in his freezer, or Democrat Senator Roland Burris’s admission that he was playing Let’s Make A Deal with ousted Democrat Governor Rod Blagojevich.

Leahy could not have been too concerned with “transparency” or “moral leadership” when he voted to confirm the admitted tax cheat Tim Geithner to be the Secretary of the Treasury.

Last week, Keith Olbermann ripped George Bush for saying that the Republican Florida Governor, Charlie Crist, was a “D-Lite” (meaning “Democrat”-lite) for supporting President Obama’s “stimulus” package. What Olbermann didn’t tell his audience is that it was George P. Bush (son of former Governor Jeb Bush) – not George W. Bush – who made those remarks.

Disingenuous to the core, Olbermann didn’t care as long as he could deflect attention away from the thus-far scarily-inept presidency of the man he and MSNBC were full partners in electing.

In his opening remarks at the economic summit on Monday, President Obama classlessly got in on the act when he accused President Bush of “casual dishonesty.” (This was before the head of his National Economic Council, Larry Summers, casually fell asleep).

Beware when leftists fail. That is when their truest emotion — anger — comes to the fore. It’s why we will likely see a Truth Commission, a Fairness Doctrine, higher taxes on the hated rich, caps on executive bonuses, any and all of it to give themselves meaning after it becomes abundantly clear that their savior is just a 47-year old man without much experience.

Candidate Obama chose to allow Tony Rezko, now an indicted felon, to loan Obama $300,000 to help him buy his big home. The press and Democrat voters thought John McCain’s seven homes – bought without the hint of a graft – was a more important story.

Citizen and candidate Obama chose to remain in the church of Reverend Wright’s, whose diatribes against America are now famous. But, the media and Democrats thought it was more important to demonize President Bush who kept America safe from terror attacks for 7 ½ years.

Senator Obama voted against the Surge. In light of the Surge’s obvious success, did the media call candidate Obama’s judgement into question? No.

So, why is anyone surprised that a number of Obama’s choices for high level governmental posts are ethically-challenged, like Tom Daschle, Tim Geithner, Nancy Killefer and Bill Richardson?

Caught up in their bloodlust for President Bush, Democrats chose to deny the reality of who Mr. Obama truly was: A stunningly inexperienced Chicago-bred politician who had made poor choices, in his associations and judgements.

In politics as in life, you get what you pay for.