I, David William Hedrick, a member of the silent majority, decided that I was not going to be silent anymore. So, I let U.S. Congressman Brian Baird have it. I was one questioner out of 38, that was called at random from an audience that started at 3,000 earlier in the evening. Not expecting to be called on, I quickly scratched what I wanted to say on a borrowed piece of paper and with a pen that I borrowed from someone else in the audience minutes before I spoke. So much for the planned talking points of the right wing conspiracy.


Thank you, David. Well done, sir.


UPDATE: This is how ...

I, David William Hedrick, a member of the silent majority, decided that I was not going to be silent anymore. So, I let U.S. Congressman Brian Baird have it. I was one questioner out of 38, that was called at random from an audience that started at 3,000 earlier in the evening. Not expecting to be called on, I quickly scratched what I wanted to say on a borrowed piece of paper and with a pen that I borrowed from someone else in the audience minutes before I spoke. So much for the planned talking points of the right wing conspiracy.


Thank you, David. Well done, sir.


UPDATE: This is how Brian Baird justifies claiming he didn’t call town hall attendees opposing statist health care “brownshirts” –

Rep. Brian Baird (D-Wash.) apologized yesterday for accusing town hall protesters of “brown shirt tactics” and comparing them to a “lynch mob.”

Baird, who originally decided against holding town hall meetings because of expected protests, now says he’ll schedule some forums during the August recess.

…. Baird made headlines last week by comparing town hall protesters to Nazi guards.

“What we’re seeing right now is close to Brown Shirt tactics,” Baird told the Columbian. “I mean that very seriously.”


Oh, so he “only” accused Americans who want to be heard of “brownshirt tactics” while “comparing them to a lynch mob.” I’m soooooo relieved. (/sarc) Geez, even The Hill blogger Eric Zimmerman gets the comparison Baird was making.

A class act would have said, at worst, “I didn’t exactly say that, but I’m very sorry for what I did say, because it was wrong,” instead of brusquely saying “I’ve apologized for that” and pretending that everything is now hunky-dory. But Brian Baird is clearly not a class act.