Monday’s Washington Post had an article about the tongue-in-cheek-named “battle of Baron Hill” going on here in southern Indiana over health care “reform.”

In it comes this quote from Obama’s favorite Hoosier Congressman about why he is refusing to hold town hall events to hear from voters:

“I’m trying to control the event,” Hill said, shortly before an informal discussion with a dozen business people at the Greater Bloomington Chamber of Commerce. “What I don’t want to do is create an opportunity for the people who are political terrorists to blow up the meeting and not try to answer thoughtful questions.”

We’ve already learned that Baron will have no town hall meetings this August in “no uncertain terms” and Baron’s staff has been whining to local newspapers about the volume of calls they have been getting from ordinary citizens in opposition to ObamaCare.

Baron, meanwhile, recently bluntly told a group in Corydon that he “[doesn't] care what the people of Harrison County think.” He apparently does care what the people in Carmel think; he’s going up there for a big-bucks fundraiser later this month. Baron has to keep those ambitions to become governor alive and well.

From the Washington Post article (rerun in the Indianapolis Star), we also now know that Obama and his allies have assigned 22 paid staffers to Indiana to push for ObamaCare, and they are looking to get more hired guns to push their health care reform agenda. All opponents to ObamaCare have are phone calls being made and emails being sent by ordinary people.

But the line from Baron Hill takes the cake.

If you oppose ObamaCare and want to make your opinion public, then you’re a “political terrorist.”

You’re not a constituent.

You’re not a voter.

You’re not a citizen.

You’re a “political terrorist.”

That’s the sort of rhetoric that the Democrats call “responsible leadership.”

How dare you for standing up in what Baron calls in the Washington Post article “my district” and telling the mighty Congressman what your opinion is.

Apparently, the 9th District is now his district, not ours, and we should just sit quietly while Baron Hill does what Obama wants.

Any opponent of ObamaCare is just a “political terrorist,” as far as Baron Hill is concerned.