Horror in Connecticut: Congressman Accosted by Angry Reese Witherspoon Lookalike

Lincoln Griffiths of Windsor Locks, bottom center, points his finger while talking to Rep. Chris Murphy, D-5th District, far right, during one of Murphy's "Congress on Your Corner" sessions outside the Super Stop and Shop on Bushy Hill Road in Simsbury on Wednesday. Griffiths said he thinks Murphy is "totally out of touch with the public," and that Murphy takes all his cues from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on health care and other political issues. (BETTINA HANSEN HARTFORD COURANT / August 5, 2009)

This is officially out of control. Angry mobs assemble outside a Super Stop & Shop in blueblood Brooks Brothers-clad Connecticut and now they're being infiltrated by Hollywood lookalikes. Check out the woman in the middle with the Jackie O shades. OK, she may be a bit older, but she could be a passable Reese Witherspoon impersonator. Oh, and can someone please report the obviously out-of-control finger-pointer Lincoln Griffiths to the White House Snitch Line? That man looks very angry.

How low can these mobs sink?

Chanting "Dump Chris Dodd" and "No national health care," scores of angry constituents confronted U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy at a meet-and-greet outside the Super Stop & Shop Wednesday afternoon.

Murphy, a Democrat who represents the 5th District, routinely holds informal office hours at supermarkets and strip malls, but such gatherings are generally uneventful. This time, many of the 150 or so attendees were so boisterous that Stop & Shop management called the police to ask that the crowd be moved from the store's entrance.

The scene in Simsbury is being replayed throughout the nation this week as congressional Democrats convene town hall forums and other public get-togethers to win support for the Obama administration's plan to overhaul the health care system.

One conservative group critical of the plan has put out a call to members, encouraging them to attend these gatherings and voice their opposition to the member of Congress hosting the event. U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd, a Democrat and a leading architect of the health care overhaul, has become a chief target.

Democrats pointed to the rowdy, sometimes vicious tone of some of the comments and said that the protests were part of a well-funded and organized effort to derail the health care plan. Wednesday's protest drew activists from the Tea Party movement and the so-called Dump Dodd campaign.

A well-funded and organized effort? Perish the thought. Of course, that's total nonsense, though it's nice of the reporter to regurgitate Think Progress talking points.

When the "manufactured" outrage the Left is trying to demonize lines up so inconveniently with public polling, it's sometimes necessary to create evidence for the "manufactured" storyline.

Enter Think Progress, which unearthed this shocking, secret memo from the leader of a small grassroots conservative organization in Connecticut, which allegedly instructs members on "infiltrating town halls and harassing Democratic members of Congress."

Right Principles PAC was formed by Bob MacGuffie and four friends in 2008, and has taken in a whopping $5,017 and disbursed $1,777, according to its FEC filing.

Doesn't seem quite as well-funded and organized as, say, Think Progress, ACORN or any number of the myriad leftwing groups well-funded and organized by George Soros and assorted other Democrat frontgroups. But a group with 23 members is now some threat to democracy.

Meanwhile, despite the efforts of desperate Democrats to portray legitimate protests as some out-of-control mobs, they're anything but.

But many who attended were not affiliated with an established group. Maryann Culkin, a stay-at-home mother from Avon, said she represents no one but herself. She went to Stop & Shop simply because she wanted to have a word or two with her congressman.

"For the first time in my life, I'm embarrassed and scared of where my country is going," Culkin told Murphy. She is worried about how the government will pay for Obama's health care policies.

Look out, Mrs. Culkin, someone may be adding you to the new White House enemies list.