Truth is what should guide the issues, not personal attacks and pointing fingers. The town hall meetings were not orchestrated by the insurance industry. That claim is a diversion from the truth. An enormous takeover by the government of almost 20% of the private sector should never happen, but since the Obama administration is dead set on it, perhaps instead of Congress conducting witch hunts, it should conduct hearings on how to reduce the regulations now governing the insurance industry.

When ACORN, an organized liberal group demonstrated against the policies of the Bush administration the liberal media referred to them as "grassroots". Now that a number of senior citizens have appeared at town hall meetings around the country to express their objection to being taken over by the Federal government, the liberal media and the Democrats are referring to them as "right-wing conspirators". It is simply not true. These concerned citizens are telling the Obama administration to leave them alone. "Do not interfere with our medical treatment." and  "We don't need your help. Stay out of our lives." 

In a recent report posted on Bloomberg.com the President and his party were severely criticized for attacking conservative groups, and insurance companies. The article referred to Nancy Pelosi as "Madame Hypocrite" and defended Sara Palin for having the courage  to speak out on behalf of seniors who will loose benefits if the Democrats adopt the government plan. Republicans will have no part of spending more taxpayer dollars so that the government can displace private insurance policies and likely ruin the private sector for all times.

A short history lesson from the 1930's  might serve a useful purpose. Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt [FDR] was hell bent on destroying the private electric power industry in the United States. His justification for building dams that produced electricity, known generally as the Tennessee Valley Authority [TVA] was to control flooding.

Private power companies were delivering power to homes at 40% less than the cost of other products that had become more expensive as the depression of 1929 progressed. FDR vilified private investors by referring to them as "Bourbons", or "moneyed aristocrats", or "economic royalists". FDR together with advisors Hopkins and Ickes conceived of their plan while cruising in open waters on FDR's personal ship. They would attack private industry, blame the selfish rich private businessmen who they would say caused the Depression. They would say businessmen stole from workers by paying low wages, and charged high prices to consumers. Apparently the hypocrisy of planning his class warfare from a million dollar ship did not occur to FDR. In the end Commonwealth and Southern and other private power suppliers were run out of the market by FDR's government option.