First, new video has surfaced in which Obama admits that the goal is to move toward a system where the government pays for all healthcare.
Next, this video illustrates one way that constituents are communicating their opposition to their representatives in Congress:
Here, HHS secretary Sebelius and Senator Arlen Specter get an earful from another crowd.
I must say, this is encouraging.
Monday, August 3, 2009
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10 comments:
Here's another interesting video of Congressman Tim Bishop's "welcome" back to his district in New York.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOLs7Cybnqw
Looks like people are getting energized...
Here's more constituent feedback to a "Blue-Dog" Democrat from Ohio.
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/08/liberal-blue-dog-rep-steve-driehaus-d.html
This is great. Government Radio manages to report these protest, but only in the context of telling us what to think about it:
"It gives the impression of such a firestorm of opposition that if you don't view it in context, you get a completely misleading idea of what goes on here," says journalism professor Alan Schroeder.
Schroeder teaches at Northeastern University and has written several books on the history of televised debates. He says the town hall format — for presidents and for members of Congress — has always been vulnerable to this kind of takeover.
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Schroeder says viewers should not take these angry scenes at face value.
"The spotlight has to shift from the fact that there ARE these protests, onto the makeup of these audiences," he says. "Where they come from, why they're motivated and what their game plan is."
For now, several lawmakers have switched to phone conferences or what they call tele-town halls to try to connect with their constituents in a more controlled environment.
Wow, what would we do without state run radio telling us what to think about a proposed state run healthcare plan?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111547366
Dude, these people were really fired up.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/07/health-care-town-hall-turns-violent-tampa/
Anyone know if Senator Mary Landrieu will be addressing her constituent's concerns about healthcare?
Video of the guy that purportedly was pushed around by "union thugs" at the Florida townhall meeting linked in the previous comment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLpHbD5cy0s
Could it be that the Left will call out its goons to provoke violence at these events so that they can blame it on the "conservative mob?"
They would never do that, would they?
Well, the administration did promise Senate Dems that it will "punch back twice as hard."
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/06/white-house-to-dems-on-town-halls-if-you-get-hit-we-will-punch-back-twice-as-hard/
More from Florida:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kxaGfClPws
This has all become sooo predictable. The New York Times knows what's going on - all these people voicing concerns over government run healthcare are just a bunch of racists.....
[healthcare protestors] may believe some of the disinformation opponents of health care reform are spreading, like the claim that the Obama plan will lead to euthanasia for the elderly. (That particular claim is coming straight from House Republican leaders.) But they’re probably reacting less to what Mr. Obama is doing, or even to what they’ve heard about what he’s doing, than to who he is.
That is, the driving force behind the town hall mobs is probably the same cultural and racial anxiety that’s behind the “birther” movement, which denies Mr. Obama’s citizenship.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/opinion/07krugman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
This just in! Photographic evidence of the Mob at townhalls:
http://thedanashow.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/meet-the-mob/
Someone just told me there are reports on the radio of some of the town hall meeting turning violent today.
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