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By lex, on August 10th, 2009

“Angry, right wing mobs.”

Not all that.

Good thing they didn’t run into the SEIU.

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August 10th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: Small Stuff

7 comments to Performance Art

  • babs
    August 11, 2009 at 10:19 am

    Having attended one of the first town hall meetings I can tell you it was Grandma, Grandpa, Mom and Dad at the meeting. I looked around and recognised at least twenty of my neighbors. People were furious with the arrogance of our congressman who, BTW, was a college administrator out on the east end of L.I. before being elected.
    Cap and Trade will ruin our local economy and place an incredible burden on the citizens of this area. Yes, people were shouting mad at this man’s defense that “we have to lower our carbon footprint” (by punishing everyone with their utility bills and loss of what remains of industry here.) Not to mention that the entire arguement is false as jobs will just migrate to lower economic areas and lower environmental standards.
    My husband pulls out tomorrow for two weeks in Taiwan to see to “American” manufacturing. Ten years ago that manufacturing was done right here on Long Island… Ten years ago my husband got to sleep in his own bed every night.

    Then health care came up. Our arrogant congressman had only one solution; public health care. I think he was very surprised by the opposition to this idea. He didn’t have much to say about the benefits of public health care only that it would cause “competition.” So, let’s see, we have 1,300 health insurance companies in the country but public health care is the only way to bring things under control? No one was buying it. He became more and more annoyed by the crowd that refused to accept his point of view. I really do think that this was a new sensation for him. And, it was new for our country; people pushing back from their dinner tables and TV sets and turning out at our bucolic neighborhood house to call our elected representative on their voting record.

    Once one actually examines HR3200 it becomes clear that it is the biggest crap sandwhich ever shoved down the throats of the American people. We need to spend 1.3 trillion dollars to “reduce” the cost of health care? That alone is the most moronic thing I have ever heard. Never mind that the nation is already broke.

    “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like your health insurance you can keep it.” Just heard Obama say that at his “town hall” meeting in NH. All I have to say to that is that I guess Obama didn’t get to page 16 of HR3200. That is a false statement and I want to throw a brick through my TV every time I hear him say that.

  • babs
    August 11, 2009 at 10:35 am

    Wow! I’m watching the Obama town hall right now and the audience is so stacked that it is amazing!
    Why do I say that? Because no other town hall has been so accomodating to HR3200 than this gathering in several weeks.
    Are people in NH so different than Mom and Pop in the rest of the country or, has the audience been entirely screened by the Obama machine?

  • Dust
    August 11, 2009 at 11:04 am

    Babs, you pegged it. I caught part of it and IMHO it is almost as staged as a Nuremburg rally.

  • virgil xenophon
    August 11, 2009 at 11:28 am

    That thing billed as a “Townhall” meeting just on the tube was nothing but a campaign rally all the way–with, as one commentator said, health-care as Obama’s running-mate.

  • Kris, in New England
    August 11, 2009 at 11:40 am

    Babs – everyone at the Obama town hall was invited by the White House. Stacked doesn’t even begin to cover it.

    She may have said it oddly, but Sarah Palin is right, there are “death panels” built into the plan as well. End of life counseling sessions for people over age 70. Medical reviews of cost of treatment vs. life expectancy even in the young.

    Both my husband and I have health issues that will continue to need medication to control for the rest of our lives. Unless there are medical advances in treatment – which a public option will virtually guarantee will never happen, as much of healthcare costs are related to research and development of better treatments and cures.

    And Babs – don’t get me started on Page 16.

    I read a story today – can’t find the link darnit – about a woman in Oregon who needed a med that cost $4,000 to treat lung cancer that had been in remission for over a decade. Her state-run insurance program denied her the med and actually sent her approval for doctor-provided suicide meds that only cost $50.

  • Matt
    August 11, 2009 at 4:14 pm

    Kris, I believe this is the article you were searching for….http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/08/death_panels_in_oregon.html
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