Is It Getting Orwellian Around Here Or Is It Just Me?

Flush with power, liberals in Congress are using that power to censor the bodies members. Connie Hair in Human Events writes all about how the censors on the Franking Commission, a body that monitors correspondence between Congressmen and their constituents for truthfulness, is apparently going out of their way to prevent Republican members from sending out information because they do not like the words being used.

The Special Orders hour was led by Rep. John Carter (R-Texas), secretary of the House Republican Conference and a former District Judge. He told the story of the demands of the commission that he remove the words “government run healthcare” and “Democratic majority” from a constituent invitation to a telephone town hall meeting.

“I communicate with my constituents every day,” Carter said from the floor. “One of the tools I use is a telephone town hall meeting. You record a message that leads into the town hall. Part of the message tells the people what you’re going to be talking to them about for the next hour.”

“We made up a telephone town hall recording submission to the Franking Commission in which I proposed to say “˜the Democratic Party is offering their government run healthcare program in the next two weeks and this is what we’re going to talk about tonight,’” Carter continued.

“The Franking Commission came back and told me I could not say “˜government run healthcare’ and I could not say the “˜Democratic Party.’ I had to say “˜the majority party is submitting its public option healthcare program.’ In other words what they’re telling me is that I have to use the same language that the President of the United States uses in his speech or that [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi uses when she talks about this. “˜Public option.’”

This is just one instance that she cite of absolutely absurd censoring that is going on and smacks of nitpicking over keeping terms that someone has probably poll tested as not being favorable to a big government nanny state and those that are protesting it. To say that a Congressman cannot use the term “government run healthcare” when the government is trying to pass a law to manage (i.e. run) the health care industry is like saying you cannot call President Obama black. He clearly is and it clearly is.

But hey, what do you expect when you you let liberals run around pulling the levers of government? Americans got change alright. The problem is it wasn’t the change many of them foolishly expected would come.