Dean Slams Bush on Town-Hall Meetings (not American thing to do)

[rodeodance]

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031105F.shtml

Dean Slams Bush on Town-Hall Meetings
By Jonathan E. Kaplan
The Hill

Thursday 10 March 2005

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said yesterday that President Bush's policy of excluding non-Republicans from town-hall meetings on Social Security reform was "not an American thing to do."

Dean spoke at the House Democrats' weekly meeting for 15 minutes and took questions from lawmakers, according to several sources inside the well-attended closed-door gathering. He made the comments about the town-hall meetings at a press conference after the closed-door session.

At the press conference, House Democratic leaders said they were most exercised about Bush's town-hall meetings, which are open only to Republican voters and party activists.

"We continue to hold hundreds of town-hall meetings that are open to all Americans. ... We have honest discussions," said Rep. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), criticizing Bush's most recent event, last Friday in Westfield, N.J., which was open only to Republicans.

[GetTheRightVote]

1. The repubs do not want the truth to be known to all

:kick:

[DustMolecule]

2. The Repubs only want the repubs "in" on the agenda.....

and only certain repubs at that! Everyone else is merely a "focus group" which repubs do not want to hear.

Most definitately - un-American!

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Bush is a coward. I hope Dean lets him know.

[givemebackmycountry]

4. He should have also talked about what happens...

If you happen to be protesting OUTSIDE of one of these dog and pony shows.

You get your head beat in by law enforcement.
Or dragged away, like that poor young woman in Westfield, New Jersey.

They want to divide and conquer, go ahead and try.

When people start to wake up and realize what is really going on, there's going to be hell to pay.

[burn the bush]

5. if slamming shrub is not the American thing to do...

it's because America is not America anymore and we will be "unAmerican" (if that's what they want to call us) until we get the real America back.