DeMint: Americans will 'take to the street' on healthcare

[seafan]

Source: The Hill

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), who said healthcare could be President Obama's Waterloo, said Sunday he thinks Americans will "take to the street" to protest Democratic-led healthcare reform in August.
"What's going to happen is, you're going to see Americans take to the street in August, and go to their congressmen's office, and they're going to go to town halls, and I think they're going to let congressmen and senators know that they need to keep their hands off their health care," DeMint said on Fox News Sunday.

Two weeks ago, Democrats jumped on DeMint's claim that stopping healthcare would be akin to Waterloo, renewing accusations that Republicans want the country to fail. President Obama even mentioned DeMint's comments in a prime time press conference.

On Sunday, DeMint warned the Democratic plan would lead to a single-payer system akin to healthcare plans in Europe and Canada.

Americans, said DeMint, "know it's going to cut Medicare. They know it's going to raise taxes on the small businesses that create jobs. And they know it's going to eliminate jobs across the country."



Read more: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/demint-americans-will-take-to-the-street-on-healthcare-2009-08-02.html

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Republicans bring NOTHING to the table except tawdry lies and manipulation, while clawing against their own white-knuckled fear that Americans will demand, and receive, universal single payer health care for all.


Republicans, the cold, bleak wilderness awaits you.

[Botany]

1. Jim almost 75% of Americans support reform and a public option

fuck you you fear mongering piece of shit

[JanMichael]

2. ditto. nt

[sasquuatch55]

38. They may take to the streets, but it will be for Single Payer. I smell revolution!

nt

[Strong Atheist]

50. Belated Welcome to DU!

:toast:

[sasquuatch55]

56. Thank You!

nt

[Strong Atheist]

57. Enjoy! nt.

[No Elephants]

63. Good luck with that dream.

[Autumn]

3. I think DeMint has his head up his ass.

People might take to the streets, but not for the reason he thinks.

[tibbiit]

15. actually he is broadcasting I bet an organized Puggie Plan of disruption

They prolly will take to the meetings as disruptors and get plenty of "Liberal Media" coverage as if there are millions of them out there to protest obama.
I hope we arent getting caught with our pants down, while they organize a very loud opposition.
tib

[BumRushDaShow]

18. Bingo.

Teabaggers (maybe we can call them IV-baggers?) are apparently about to hit the streets en masse (what little "masse" they have outside of what the lunatic-fringe owned M$M does to exaggerate about them) to disrupt.

These people are the poorest losers that one can ever imagine. :eyes: And people wonder why Obama & Axelrod and crew are still in "campaign mode" because that is the only way to squash their nonsense. The Dems. can't sit on it and hope it blows over. This is not election year, but it is also no time to sit back and relax. It will behoove them to grab the message and run with it before these lunatics do.

[sasquuatch55]

39. colostomy baggers

nt

[GinaMaria]

33. Astro turf teabagging, stop the vote counting

right wing corporatists up to their old tactics. Get ready to expose them and link them the repuke party. These are operatives who stage riots to force legitimacy of their extreme minority views.

[xxqqqzme]

53. Laying the foundation for

all the sheeple responding as they are told once they get their email orders.

A caller on Thom Hartmann this AM said he went to a town hall over the weekend w/ these robots in attendance. He said they read from their printed email and then promptly left. He said there was a big push to turn it into an anti-choice rally.

[Mrs. Ted Nancy]

40. I agree

[high density]

4. Why do these loony bin comments even get published?

These guys get a pass for arguing for the unsustainable status quo.

[musette_sf]

5. "they're going to go to town halls"

hey DeMent -

guess you haven't seen the Interwebz in a few days

because you're already BUSTED

Right-Wing Harassment Strategy Against Dems Detailed In Memo: ‘Yell,’ ‘Stand Up And Shout Out,’ ‘Rattle Him’
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/31/recess-harassment-memo/

[MarjorieG]

7. Love Think Progress, but has MSM picked it up Town Hall, 2000 Stop the Count, bullies?

[musette_sf]

58. on Rachel tonight

(and Hi fellow Brooklynite!)

[silverweb]

10. Yup. And they'll try to instigate more disruption.

They're going to be bussing in people to creating "protests" at congressional offices, town halls, etc.

It probably won't be too hard to find unemployed people willing to act against their own future interests for some desperately needed immediate cash.

[JDPriestly]

46. If they arrive at your town hall, go with friends and stand

up with your friends and sing The Star-Spangled Banner. Get the supporters of the health care reform to sing with you. It is unpatriotic to scream and yell over the singing of The Star-Spangled Banner. Singing causes people to feel quite inside. That's what we should do. Go to these events in large enough numbers and with a couple of singers with good voices.

[gmoney]

6. Republicans will go to the streets so they DON'T get healthcare, but NOT to stop a war?

Something's wrong there...

[aquart]

19. No. They will go to the streets so YOU don't get health care.

THAT's what matters.

[du_grad]

42. That is SO true...

My husband is convinced that this stems from irrational fear that someone will get something for nothing - like welfare. "I've got mine but you don't get yours because you're lazy and don't work and I pulled myself up by the bootstraps etc. etc." It may also be fear that illegal brown people may get health care and legal white people will have to pay for it.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/209817 - I think EVERYONE who is against reform should watch this. A friend of mine found it. It's excellent. All of us are THIS CLOSE to financial ruin without health insurance...

[aquart]

48. Have you seen Sicko?

It's about Americans who HAVE insurance.

[du_grad]

52. I haven't had a chance to see Sicko.

I keep forgetting about it. I'd really like to see it.

I've worked in hospitals since 1971. There is a huge naiveté amongst the general public regarding hospitals. I'm sure I will be shocked but not particularly surprised about Michael Moore's film. Thanks for reminding me about it.

[aquart]

60. It deals with our false belief that our insurance will cover us.

And contrasts the misery inflicted on us with the worry-free ease and security they have in other western nations regarding healthcare.

[Are_grits_groceries]

8. He's crazy!

It's too damn hot to take to the streets here. People might take to a Waffle House.

[Cleita]

9. They will take to the streets all right and already have risking arrest and

being arrested, but it will be to promote Medicare for all not to protect the corporate health care and insurance industry.

[Blue_In_AK]

11. Delusional...

It's hard enough to get Americans to take to the streets in the first place, but if they do, it won't be to OPPOSE health care reform. What a tool.

[daleo]

12. Oh no!

You guys will be stuck with a health care plan like we have in Canada.

The horror! The horror!

Then you will find out what liars the insurance industry really are.

[pinto]

13. I bet he's talking about the planned disruptions of Representatives' Town Hall meetings,

orchestrated by national Republican operatives. There was a memo mentioned recently outlining the "tactics". This isn't local, grass roots discussion and debate - which is the supposed standard when Reps go to their home districts and meet with local voters.

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. and it creates a double bind for us Dems who want to protest bad policy.

any Dem protestors will be lumped in with the Repub. "stooges".

[never cry wolf]

24. That is it exactly, +1

A top down astroturf movement. I bet all the RW hate talkers will be organizing and encouraging these fake protests.

We should take a page from their playbook and attend the pubbie's town hall meetings and demand single payer.

[Hansel]

30. My rep (Eric Paulson, R-MN) is doing his townhalls via conference call

Too gutless to risk the chance that their own tactics will be turned against them?

I can't help but think that this strategy will backfire on them. I cannot see this helping to change the minds of Dems who already are supporting health care reform because the cat's out of the bag. I would think it would just make them more resolved to get their way. It might just make the Blue Dogs mad enough to jump out of their Republican cohorts' beds. And since none of the Republicans were going to vote for it anyway, there's no loss there.

[Cleita]

14. Here is DeMint's fax if you are tired of email and phones:

Fax: [phone]

[Warpy]

17. Most of the people in SC in a CNN poll today

gave their Senators either a "D" or an "F."

I have to think the ravings of DeMint is one reason.

[Amos Moses]

20. They're not gonna take away my high premiums and deductibles

without a fight!

The GOP really is irrelevant. It's sad that so many people will vote for them.

[Hulk]

21. We've already seen 'em.....we call them "tea baggers"....

Yup...there are enough dumb asses that will take to the street to chase that no good, socialist black guy out of the White House. Sure 'nuff. They will march on Washington, dressed in their finest sheets and burning those crosses, chanting "we shall overcome" all the way down the road.

We are a nation of STUPID morons. I'm sorry folks, but we have more morons per capita than ANY OTHER COUNTRY ON EARTH!! Some countries are illiterate. We are literate, but just head-up-our-ass STUPID. Thanks in part to the MSM, the propaganda network and all of it's goons, and talk radio for the most part. We are one F*CKED up land.

Take a drive through Wyoming sometime, and see if you can say you are proud of what you see. Some scary red neck country..Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, etc, etc. No amount of education is going to remedy that mess.

[Kingofalldems]

22. The 'Get a Brain Moran' mullet people will be out in full force

[seafan]

23. DeMint is trying to conflate the loony rightwinger disruptions with the

legitimate protests during August at town halls/congressional offices by Americans who want single payer health care for everyone. He's blowing his dog whistle for the rabid base to emerge, disrupt, scream about *socialism*, *elderly euthanasia*, the *liberal media* and anything else in their racist, small minds. There's no doubt about it.


Here's the memo.


Right-Wing Harassment Strategy Against Dems Detailed In Memo: ‘Yell,’ ‘Stand Up And Shout Out,’ ‘Rattle Him’

[defendandprotect]

25. Sounds like GOP calling out the fanatics . . . and where are Democrats calling out progressives--???

Where are the labor unions calling out Dems ?

Where are women's groups calling out Dems/progressives?

Where are Democrats in calling out single payer supporters -- ????

Are we going to let the right-wing fanatics in the streets pull this down?

[santamargarita]

26. Fuck Demented-DeMint...

and the rest of his Goddamn Right-Wing Assholes!

[TheCoxwain]

27. Yes American will indeed take to the street ---

IN FUCKING SUPPORT OF HEALTHCARE REFORM

[pmorlan1]

28. Pathetic Trick

DeMint is talking about the right-wing action plan to disrupt town hall meetings and scare Dems. into backing off reform.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/cal04/1843

[Odin2005]

29. DeMint is DeMented.

:puke:

[LeftishBrit]

49. So he is...

He sounds like the reincarnation of Jesse Helms!

[nikto]

31. duplicate post

...

[nikto]

32. GOOD IDEA----Let's take to the streets for SINGLE-PAYER HC!!

There's a heck of a lot more of US (FOR single payer) than against.

It's like 73% FOR, and most of the rest probably don't understand SP,
or they'd likely support it.

So even that 27% left over is not monolithically against SP HC---Only SOME of them.

WE have the overwhelming numbers on OUR side!!!!!

Take to the streets? Good idea.

Thanks, Jim!!

[and-justice-for-all]

34. Oh yeah, we are going to let them know DeMented...nt

[YoungAndOutraged]

35. Cool story, Sen. DeMint

Now I know what ignorant + stupid x 100 equals.

[Jefferson23]

36. I would like to see a bi-partisan march on DC for Kucinich's amendment.

Keep this option in, and let the states begin to transition. Over time the insurance industry can focus on natural disaster insurance, auto, home etc. Get them the hell out of health care..they are killing Americans.

[dixiegrrrrl]

37. DeMented DeMint lives at the C Street complex, ya know. True. nt

[muntrv]

41. Freedomworks doesn't count as people, DeMint.

[Yellow Horse]

43. Damn right! To the streets for SINGLE-PAYER!

Fuck these goddam insurance companies and their whores in Congress like demented DeMint.

[Canuckistanian]

44. Oh, God, no! Not a plan like Canada or Europe have!

Because once people see what it's REALLY like, they're going to barbecue every Congressman/Senator who voted against it. Maybe they'll have those barbecues in the streets, just like DeMint says.

So, it's IMPERATIVE to Repubs and Blue Dogs that a public option or single-payer system MUST NOT come to pass.

[onager]

45. If they take to the streets, somebody please...

...run over this idiot.

[LeftishBrit]

47. Wow

Well, all I can say is in Britain we've sometimes had demos and protests against attempts to weaken the NHS, but there will be an ice-skating contest in Hell when there's a demo in favour of abolishing it!

[PandaKeeper]

51. Demint is a tool

I actually have sat down and talked with him once or twice as I know him vaguely from work. This doesnt surprise me one bit, its easy to see that DeMint is a tool and he openly and frequently targets INDIVIDUALS rather than POLICIES as his mark. A Bad politician but an excellent "Crat". You want to know a little about DeMint then take a look at his campaign contributions. That will tell you all you need to know.

[annabanana]

54. He meant : "Bussed to the Town Halls" . . .He was talking about

the astroturfing roamimg mobs that were mobilised by that memo we've been reading about.

[Zorra]

55. *Sigh*. Don't worry. Senator DeMented forgot his meds again. n/t

[ProudDad]

59. Anyone have a lead on where they will "strike" next.?

I have an idea what to do about them...

I just need to know when they'll gather to heckle again...

TIA

[Turbineguy]

61. Yeah, like people are going to riot

"We don't want more!"

[proud2BlibKansan]

62. No Jim. This will be YOUR Waterloo.

You freakin idiot.

[No Elephants]

64. IOW, insurance companies and Republicans will pay people to organize demonstrations.

Thanks for the heads up, Pig.

[fascisthunter]

65. good... we'll all be there to throw peanuts at your heads.