Oh dear. Darcie “Hack” Johnston is not happy. Indeed, if she got any madder, her eyes and skin would turn green and her muscles would burst through her clothes. HACK SMASH!

I think the real cause of her anger is the fact that Vermont Health Connect is off to an acceptable start. She has to know, as do Randy Brock and all those nutbar Tea Party Congresscritters, that if health care reform is successful, their little game is over. So, a glitchy but non-disastrous Day One is a bad omen for the Hack and her friends.

That, I suspect, is the cause. But the trigger was a news release from the totalitarian hordes at VPIRG.

Well, “totalitarian” and “hordes” are her words, but who am I to doubt the discernment of Darcie Johnston?

Deets after the jump.  

It all started with Darcie squandering some money on anti-Shummycare robocalls, which warned that VERMONTERS MIGHT LOSE THEIR INSURANCE!!!!! and urged people to contact the Governor seeking a delay in VHC’s implementation.

VPIRG’s response? A news release pointing out that VHC will bring health coverage to thousands of Vermonters who can’t currently afford it, and urging people to contact Darcie’s advocacy group, Vermonters for Health Care Freedom, and complain about the misleading robocalls. (Do robocalls still work, anyway? Does Darcie think it’s still 1985?)

Well, by “contact,” I mean “send Darcie an e-mail.” Because it’s her e-mail that’s listed on the VHCF website.

And that’s where the totalitarian hordes come in, as unleashed by the suspiciously-Aryan-sounding VPIRG operative Falko Schilling. In Darcie’s overheated words:

What he did was mobilize his hordes to try to silence our message, not by calling the governor’s office and voicing their contrary opinions, but by flooding my email account.

VPIRG’s attack on my email account is completely consistent with its advocacy of a totalitarian health care system…

Now VPIRG has resorted to the methods favored by totalitarians everywhere – to suppress any dissent from their gospel of the all-powerful state.”

This, after Falko’s “hordes” “flooded” Darcie’s e-mail account with roughly 200 messages.

Two Hundred.

That’s a mighty small horde.

Which can be defeated in short order by your handy-dandy “DELETE” button.

200 unwanted e-mails is a minor annoyance, not a totalitarian suppression of dissent. But of course Darcie, like all the teabaggers, has a remarkably thin skin when it comes to political blowback.

Now, it might be argued that Falko went too far in using Darcie’s own e-mail address. But she left that door open by posting it on the VHCF website as the “Contact” option. So, no sympathy for the Hack from this precinct.

I hope she can find a harmless outlet for all this pent-up anger. I suggest the Bozo Bop Bag, available for a mere $19.95 from the good folks at the Vermont Country Store.