My assault on the town hall screamers got into the newspaper today!1

[UTUSN]

The Teabag Rethugs decided to hold a "public forum" of their own, "invite" the congressmen who had already scheduled their own by teleconference, then spread it on t.v. and the papers that the "invited guests didn't show up." They set up an empty table and chairs, with HUGH, professionally printed place cards with the congressmen's names on them. They never expected the congressmen to attend, since the cards were SO hugh that anybody sitting behind them would have been blocked out.

Not that I'm defending the cowardly congress critters. Of the three local ones, two are so STUPID and weasley that they don't even know how to defend themselves. The other one is a Blue Dog-- There should be NO Blue Dogs in this region, since this is the most impoverished, minority-dominant, Democratic part of the state and country.

The headline is not mine. It's made up by the newspaper. My letter is low key, but I think it sticks it to the dirtbags.

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Congressmen scared away by screamers?

August 25, 2009 10:56 PM

To the editor:

The (local paper) editorialized on Sunday, Aug. 23 that our local congressmen must participate in the healthcare town halls because “frank, honest discussions are necessary.” Fine.

But who gets to define “frank and honest discussions”? The editorial itself is sprinkled with right wing phrases: “socialized health care ... country’s founders (channeled this or that) ... public forum held Tuesday, neither (Congressman) attended.”

So the day of that ”public forum,” the radio screamers scoffingly informed that both congressmen had scheduled town halls, one for September, the other for the same day as (the Teabaggers'), by teleconference.

Yet, both TV and your sister newspaper reported with the spin that the two invited guests didn’t attend the ('bagger) town hall. Anybody -- I -- can claim to be having a town hall and that anybody who didn’t go was too chicken to attend.

Probably all three congressmen will go back to D.C. claiming to have heard and listened to their constituents and will be so intimidated by the screamers that they will be wallflowers or outright against the healthcare plan.

Well, here are some questions news reporters should be asking:

1) What is the actual number of each town hall’s attendees, how many for and against, and what percentage of the district’s voters?

2) Who organized this public forum, or any other?

3) Not just random attendees, but the organizers: What organized political groups do you belong to? Same thing with the supporters.

4) Are you (the screamers) voters, residents, in the congressional district of whatever town hall?

5) Who paid for the professionally printed place cards and other expenses for the ('bagger) public forum?

6) Why did the one Medicare recipient interviewed say to media that she is afraid of the government running health care? She likes Medicare, doesn’t she?

[UTUSN]

1. LOL - Ode to my faithfully lurking UnReKKKer!1

Dear One,

Guess what, not EVERY thread posted is worth EITHER a Rec OR an UnReKKK!1 And I myself said many times during the Great Debate on UnReKKK that I never look at the Greatest Page and regard it mostly as a tool for Visitors, like media types, who don't have the time to spend in the entrails of DU, but how I DO a lot of Rec-ing (obviously, for OTHERS), both for merit and to keep worthy topics from falling through the cracks.

Ah, you DISAPPROVE of thread after thread!1 Woe is YOU!1 Kisses to make your sour woe all better for you!1



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Whatever the "quality" of my o.p., I fail to see how a DEMOCRATIC post could POSSIBLY be UnReKKKed in GOOD FAITH!1

[baldguy]

2. HA! I've got a couple of those too.

But, they're brave enough to actually post a reply once in a while.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. Heh!

Welcome to my world.

The sweet part is when you get a bunch of sane people overturning them. And think of it. Your post needs 7 or 9 or 12 recs to make it to the Greatest.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. They are the most fun of fans aren't they?

:sarcasm:

And good job by the by

Oh and recced.

[UTUSN]

3. A farewell kick because I / it deserves it!1 n/t

[snake in the grass]

5. saved for later n/t