NRO's Kathryn Jean Lopez predicts, “I suspect this will be the most linked-to YouTube of the day on the Right." The link is to a video clip of Hillary Clinton saying in 2003, “I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic, and we should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.”

Presumably, Lopez is suggesting that Clinton's comments are somehow at odds with what Pelosi and Hoyer wrote in their USA Today op-ed today, but they're not.

As we pointed out this morning, Pelosi and Hoyer wrote that “it is now evident that an ugly campaign is underway not merely to misrepresent the health insurance reform legislation, but to disrupt public meetings and prevent members of Congress and constituents from conducting a civil dialogue,” and that "[d]rowning out opposing views is simply un-American."

Pelosi and Hoyer did not declare opponents of health care reform - or anybody who disagrees with the Obama administration -- “un-American.” They were speaking in favor of “civil dialogue” and against actions that disrupt it and “drown[] out opposing views.”

On the off chance that Lopez was merely pointing out a great 6-year-old quote on the freedom of speech from our now-Secretary of State, fantastic. We concur.