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Politics Recess!
Posted by Eli Sanders on Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:52 AM
As members of Congress head home to talk, in town hall meetings, about what's being done to reform America's broken health care system they're telling their constituents—well, not much. Because all over the land it's Town Halls Gone Wild!
Now, why is it that these interruptions at Democratic town hall meetings all sound so familiar? Could it be that they're... scripted? Rachel Maddow explains:
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Sigh. How do we counter this kind of thing? Right now I feel like the minority is going to get its way just because it's loud and scary. It's depressing.
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When the Left loses, it does so merely by mobilizing the angry and the stupid to sit on their far asses and bitch.
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this indicates how much money is at stake here. shit tons of money.
does anyone even know what the fuck the health-care proposal entails? i sure don't. i doubt these on-medicare-anyway yayhoos do. if the government sent a counselor to help their dumb lard asses with their health care they would kiss obama's feet afterwards.
does anyone even know what the fuck the health-care proposal entails? i sure don't. i doubt these on-medicare-anyway yayhoos do. if the government sent a counselor to help their dumb lard asses with their health care they would kiss obama's feet afterwards.
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Time for some members of congress to take some names & kick some ass at these townhalls...
Wait, these freaks are going after Democrats. Ugh, we're fucked.
Wait, these freaks are going after Democrats. Ugh, we're fucked.
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SHOW UP.
DO NOT LET THEM SHOUT YOU DOWN.
And call 9-1-1 if they won't stop.
You have a right to speak.
Corporate America-hating neocons working for the man - don't get to interrupt you.
DO NOT LET THEM SHOUT YOU DOWN.
And call 9-1-1 if they won't stop.
You have a right to speak.
Corporate America-hating neocons working for the man - don't get to interrupt you.
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What ever happened to Robert's Rules of Order? These townhalls seem to be run more like Wrestlemania.
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The creepy thing is that Republicans can't or won't allow themselves to recognize how brownshirty they're all getting.
That's what scares me the most about this whole business.
That's what scares me the most about this whole business.
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@14:
I'm guessing in most of these situations RRoO don't really apply; nobody's putting forth motions to be voted on by the attendees and such, they're just (or supposed to be) simple public Q&A sessions with the local rep.
@13:
Indeed, we HAVE seen this before, in Dade County, Florida back in November of 2000, to be precise.
I'm guessing in most of these situations RRoO don't really apply; nobody's putting forth motions to be voted on by the attendees and such, they're just (or supposed to be) simple public Q&A sessions with the local rep.
@13:
Indeed, we HAVE seen this before, in Dade County, Florida back in November of 2000, to be precise.
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