Un-American

James Joyner · · 57 comments

T he Outrage of the Day, apparently, is a USA Today op-ed by Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer in which they assert “Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American.”

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Now, Congressmen probably shouldn’t go around calling their fellow countrymen “un-American.” It’s unhelpful in persuading opponents and not particularly shrewd politically. But, considering that I both disagree with Pelosi and Hoyer on the direction we should take our national health care policy and preceded them by three days in asserting that “we should be able to agree that shutting down public debate on the matter in the guise of ‘being heard’ is not only unproductive but un-American,” I’m hard pressed to muster much outrage over this one.