Liberals Staging Assaults on Republican Town Halls?

[sasha031]

Over the past week while on a two week congressional vacation numerous Republican representatives threw Town Hall style meetings to talk to their constituents. While most of these meetings went off without incident, a few were visited by angry groups wanting answers about the Ryan budget proposal. Rep. Daniel Webster (R-FL), Rep. Charles Bass (R-NH), Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) all faced harsh criticism and interruptions during their presentations and during their answers to various questions. These eruptions were praised by liberal sites moveon.org and thinkprogress.org, with videos being uploaded nearly immediately afterwards.
Rep. Daniel Webster (R-FL)

By Mark Schlueb

A town-hall meeting held in Orlando by U.S. Rep. Dan Webster degenerated into bedlam Tuesday, with members of the crowd shouting down the freshman Republican congressman and yelling at one another.

It could be a sign of things to come for Webster, a staunch conservative in a competitive district that Democrats hope to recapture in 2012. Last week, Webster took heat from conservative tea party members for not pushing hard enough to cut the federal budget.

But Tuesday, the heat came from the other side.

The event was the last of a series of town-hall meetings Webster has held during Congress' spring recess, which ends Monday. While the others were civil and largely uneventful, the 300 people at Tuesday's meeting were so raucous they were scolded by a police officer to act "like grown people."

Webster tried to go over a series of charts showing growing levels of federal spending and debt and the reason he supports the federal budget plan put forward by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. But he was interrupted at every turn by shouts from critics that included members of progressive groups such as Moveon.org and Organize Now.
http://nation.foxnews.com/republican-town-halls/2011/04/26/liberals-staging-assaults-republican-town-halls

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[TheDebbieDee]

1. I remember those healthcare town halls. Payback's a 8itch, heh?

[nebenaube]

7. Yes, and I fear we have been goaded into this behavior

and in the end it will be twisted against us.

[DontTreadOnMe]

2. Run for the hills!

The Liberals are coming! and they are pissed!

[mrcheerful]

3. Awww what is the matter Fox can't control your own astro turff monsters anymore?

After all you were the ones who put the government was after your medicare talk when you astro turffed the brain dead into protesting healthcare reform, you thought the "Keep your government hands off my medicare" signs were cute. Oh btw, nice try at projecting what you practice daily onto the other side.

[veganlush]

4. there are liberals among their constituents. ...n/t

[mrcheerful]

5. Yet the R town halls who have stacked town halls to keep liberals from

asking questions all of a sudden can't find supporters to ask soft ball questions, yeah right. Funny how that works isn't it. So now after over 30 years of R's keeping libs silent the R's can't is your argument? I sure hope not, well we can wish, but that is not how R's do town halls.

[markpkessinger]

6. I should think there would be a fair amount of moderates and even some conservatives . . .

. . . who would be outraged at the Ryan budget.

[99th_Monkey]

8. Exactly. What? Are all "Liberals Excluded" from Town Halls now? But this IS very revealing ...

... in that it reveals just how bare-assed brazenly pathetic the ReThuglican's
self-proclaimed "Mandate" from on high i.e. the mid-term elections actually was,

People are increasingly PISSED, true. But the RePukes totally misread the populist
tea-leaves big time this time.

[crickets]

12. Yep. Just because people didn't vote for them

doesn't mean they shouldn't give feedback to the representatives who got elected. Funny how citizen involvement in government involves everyone, not just certain party members.

[Tx4obama]

9. How come last year the police officers didn't tell teabaggers to act "like grown people"?

We had to put up with hearing the teabaggers bitch all the time (all year last year) at town halls hollering at democratic town halls,
so now it is only fair that everyone should get to holler at the republicans at their town halls ;)

[tsuki]

11. Because the FOP is a Roopublicon supporting union? nt

[tsuki]

10. Ah, call the waaabulance for Taliban Dan.

[quaker bill]

13. I did not get the e-mail

Generally, if "liberals" are organizing something in this town, the Quaker Meeting is on the CC list. There were a few liberals there, some of my friends. However, most of the folks were not "movement liberals". Some appeared to be union. The IBEW hall is not too far from where Taliban Dan was holding this public meeting. I don't generally get their organizing messages, so it might have been union work. However, I rather expect people are just getting fed up, the Sentinel has been reporting one ugly story after the next from Tallahassee and in more general terms about the failure of these policies.

The local unions are pulling their funds out of banks that support the Chamber of Commerce and encouraging members to do the same. They seem to be getting very active very early.

Does the Tea party counter? As best as I can tell there is very little of that movement left, but we will see.

[mmonk]

14. The art of projection.

Seniors are just starting to figure out what they voted for. The campaign of the personal that was so effective in 2010 can no longer cloak the Republican and "tea party" agenda.