At Town Hall Meeting With Pre-Screened Questions, Vitter Mocks Democratic Concerns Over Protesters
At Town Hall Meeting With Pre-Screened Questions, Vitter Mocks Democratic Concerns Over Protesters
Yesterday, Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) held a town hall meeting in Pineville, LA, attended by nearly 1,500 people. The discussion mostly focused around health care reform, and Vitter said that he is “totally and unalterably opposed” to the proposals being put forth in Congress.
At one point, however, an attendee asked Vitter about the confrontations at Democratic town hall meetings around the country. Vitter seemed to mock his colleagues, saying that although he had been advised to have “security” for his town hall meetings, he “told them the best security is to do what the people want you to do.” He added that “the angry mob is always welcome at my events.” Watch it:
Ironically, this Pineville event where Vitter made these comments was full of pre-screened questions. According to a report from Pineville’s local paper, The Alexandria Town Talk:
The Louisiana Republican spoke at what was billed as a town hall meeting at Louisiana College’s Guinn Auditorium. It was a friendly audience but there was little chance for disagreement to be expressed.
The panel of speakers all joined Vitter in opposing the reform package being debated in Congress. Questions from audience members were screened and selected in advance of the event.
So much for welcoming the “angry mob.”
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So much for welcoming the “angry mob.”
– - Depends what they asked.
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August 9th, 2009 at 3:32 pmRemember when you were in school trying to learn how to solve those tricky math problems, or trying to review for the big test, and there was always one or two idiots who continually disrupted the learning by shooting spit wads at other kids…
The health insurance industry, with the full support of the GOP, has decided that the best way to prevent the public from learning what actually is and is not in the various reform proposals is to send groups of people to the town hall meetings and have them act like the “spit wad patrol”.
It is extremely unlikely that many of the disruptive people in attendance are actually interested in hearing any answers to their questions, otherwise they would not continually interrupt the speaker trying to address their concerns. They only want to chant and rant so that information cannot be exchanged at these events.
Remember the 4 D’s of the Republican strategy during the Obama years: Delay, Distract, Distort, Deceive.
August 9th, 2009 at 3:33 pmWell, in all fairness to the Senator, having an open forum without pre-approved questions could be so scary he might just soil his Vitters!
Didn’t need to angry mobs to turn this one into a Clown Hall. Bozo himself was running it.
PEACE
August 9th, 2009 at 3:42 pmCan’t wait to see the falling ratings of the GNOP at the end of the month. With all the rolling around in the mud they have been doing with the astroturf organizers, this may be their last deep breath before the permanent death.
August 9th, 2009 at 3:52 pmOT
Democrats Stage a Revival in Texas
Political scientists are projecting that Bush Country will morph, by 2020, into the nation’s second-largest Democratic state. “Texas,” Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean enthused during the DNC’s rules committee showdown in May, “is ready to turn blue.”
Yes, Texas.
August 9th, 2009 at 3:57 pmVitter (R-Dumbfcukistan) is a joke. Anyone who listens to anything he says is a moron.
August 9th, 2009 at 3:58 pmI’m sure Dick Armey didn’t waste money sending the “Money First” bus full of talking point parrots to that sham.
Looks more like the “Corporate Tool Time” show, not a town hall meeting.
August 9th, 2009 at 4:01 pmVitter seemed to mock his colleagues, saying that although he had been advised to have “security” for his town hall meetings, he “told them the best security is to do what the people want you to do.”
Sen Vitter, what if the people want you to do something based on lies and falsehoods that they have been told? What if your electorate is not an informed one? Do you do what “they” want you to do just because it matches what you would have wanted to do anyway, regardless of what they say?
August 9th, 2009 at 4:02 pmWhen good fights evil, evil usually wins, unless good is very careful. [Dr. leonard McCoy]
August 9th, 2009 at 4:03 pmLouisiana College is a private Southern Baptist school. I happened to be using their walking trail the day of the meeting and observed that 95% of those attending were white and elderly and probably on Medicare. It amazes me that this demographic would support Vitter after his sexual history became public. I guess all that matters is that he is a Republican and against our black president.
August 9th, 2009 at 4:05 pmThese mobs are not being ordered to Repugnican meetings—-only Democratic congressmen’s meetings. So, of course, there was not the same trouble. May I remind Diapers that the latest poll showed 71% in favor of healthcare reform and 24% opposed.
August 9th, 2009 at 4:07 pmIf Obama’s people did what Vitter did, Fox and the rest of the right-wing circle-jerk would be chewing it night and day about how he doesn’t believe in the First Amendment.
August 9th, 2009 at 4:11 pmAugust 9th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
While others sit on their hands and do nothinng you have some impressive people out there doing their home work and pusing back against the lies:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/09/vitter-mob/comment-page-1/#comment-5755433
August 9th, 2009 at 4:19 pmWhile others sit on their hands and do nothinng you have some impressive people out there doing their home work and pusing back against the lies:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/8/762288/-MSNBC-Minus-Morning-Joe-Have-Really-Been-On-Top-of-This
August 9th, 2009 at 4:22 pmVitter seemed to mock his colleagues, saying that although he had been advised to have “security” for his town hall meetings, he “told them the best security is to do what the people want you to do.”
Of course he has nothing to be afraid of…The teabaggers’ corporate overlords would NEVER tolerate any dissent from them in a Republican town hall meeting…
August 9th, 2009 at 4:22 pmI guess all that matters is that he is a Republican and against our black president.
“I guess all that matters is that he is a Republican and against our black
presidentpopulation.”fixtit…
August 9th, 2009 at 4:23 pmThis could be a priceless set-up for his own fall. He can’t control this.
August 9th, 2009 at 4:26 pmVitter is just following the fascist theocratic Republican Party’s guide lines for putting on the appearance of being part of a Democracy.
Republicans know that they cannot have public town hall meetings, because they will be humiliated. Democrats have a lot more balls not to mess around with cherry picked audiences and questions.
August 9th, 2009 at 4:26 pmRepublicans are such dihonest people. If they can’t tell a lie, they do not speak. They know that if they told the truth about their motives, not even wingnuts would support them. They lie about everything.
August 9th, 2009 at 4:26 pmI counted 9 empty seats in the photo, wonder how many more were empty?
August 9th, 2009 at 4:32 pmAre you claiming that Mr. Vitter “prostituted” himself lol?
August 9th, 2009 at 4:36 pmPineville is located nearby Jena, La.
Yes. THAT Jena, LA.
You know whom they feared…
August 9th, 2009 at 4:39 pmJust look at all those empty seats. I guess when you have
August 9th, 2009 at 4:40 pmabsolutly no solutions to offer, don’t stand for anything
except the status quo, and have no intention of changing,
why the hell would anyone bother wasting their time with you.
Anybody attending any Vitter function should bring a diaper–preferably used–and leave it in a conspicuous place…
August 9th, 2009 at 4:41 pmOh, Lord help us from these twits that cannot get over the fact that they have LOST their election, and are trying their damnest to torpedo ANY meaningful Health Reform for our Nation.
August 9th, 2009 at 4:42 pmI wonder if Vitter had his man diaper on.
August 9th, 2009 at 4:44 pmSo, the questions were screened and selected. So tell me what the Hell did these attendees learn? Buy picking and choosing the questions, this meeting was pointless. And can these people just forget he was in the infamous madames book? Or allegations of his extra-marital affairs? Hypocrisy makes me sick.
August 9th, 2009 at 4:46 pmI bet if Vitter told them to turn off their teevee and stop listening to Glenn Beck they’d turn into an angry mob and walk out!
August 9th, 2009 at 4:49 pmPre-screened for your every satisfaction. Totalitarism satisfies. You get alot to like with dictatorship, pre-filtered, pre-flavored, flip-top box.
August 9th, 2009 at 5:03 pmBy the way, there’s some excellent snark on DK by Stroszek on
August 9th, 2009 at 5:07 pmthe FP. Enjoy.
Nice cocoon ya got there, Stentor.
Vitter seemed to mock his colleagues, saying that although he had been advised to have “security” for his town hall meetings, he “told them the best security is to do what the people want you to do.” He added that “the angry mob is always welcome at my events.”
So, ya got good security for doin’ what the people want you to do, eh? You mean like whoring around in diapers? That’s what they want? I’m sure it’s pretty spectacular, but I’m not sure I wanna watch.
Be happy to send a lynch mob over, if you can’t draw one yourself. I’d think your hypocrisy would be a sure-fire pull.
August 9th, 2009 at 5:12 pmCheaters. Stealers. Liars.
Who does not know this by now?
Everything else is irrelevant.
they have to go. They belong right along side the commies and the nazis.
August 9th, 2009 at 5:13 pmThese so called ‘Protests’ are the biggest sham I have witnessed. Add the fact MSM is calling these protesters ‘Average citizens’ is laughable. Here these people are getting bused in by corporate sponsers, and MSM doesn’t know that? Come on. I saw Alex Witt on MSNBC and she acted suprised that these people could possibly be plants? Please. I really, really hate MSM. Only Keith, Rachel, and Ed deserve respect.
August 9th, 2009 at 5:17 pmOK, since 74 percent of Americans want you to stop enabling a corrupt insurance industry and provide an affordable healthcare option, will you do it? Or will that cut too much into your hooker time?
August 9th, 2009 at 5:20 pmNot surprisingly….I could see the top of a diaper sticking out of Vitter’s pants at this town hall meeting. Probably an astronaut diaper to boot.
August 9th, 2009 at 5:28 pmUnreal, Here is Vitter acting like it is no biggie that Democrats are under assault by ‘Tea_Baggers’. And where are the ‘Tea-Baggers’ anyway? Shouldn’t they be there? Screaming and jeering asking if HE read the Bill? I guess the ‘Baggers’ are to busy disrupting the Progressives and the Dems to attend Vitter’s meeting. Lord knows they don’t want to learn anything, they just want to to make a specticule of themselves, they are doing a good job.
August 9th, 2009 at 5:29 pmOf course, anyone showing up to a conservative town hall meeting means they’re pro-insurance-industry-profits-over-patient’s-welfare, so of course there wouldn’t be any angry mobs there. The angry mobs are only showing up at the pro-health-care-reform town hall meetings to interrupt the discussion so the truth won’t get out about how badly reform is needed.
August 9th, 2009 at 5:30 pmDid Vitter need security during the Bush Regime when Americans were protesting the war criminals he was protecting?
August 9th, 2009 at 5:32 pmSome of the analysis over on DailyKos indicates that many of these screaming protestors against health care reform town meetings are right-wing white supremecists (sic) who hate and fear the idea that all Americans, even poor and minority folks will be able to get decent health care. This scares them. First an Afro-American President and then health care for all. What is their old white supremecists world coming to?
August 9th, 2009 at 5:52 pmAnd where are the ‘Tea-Baggers’ anyway?
ya, good question. If they were real they would be there. The reality is they are republicanz, and they have orders to attend public meetings.
Now that the republican party has become somewhat exposed, you can see that they represent all things that are bad about human nature. They represent the antithesis of civility.
They have demonstrated that any skills they may have had in governance and legislation have been so badly neglected that they can’t possibly catch up again.
They should have tried to keep up with the Democrats and be industrious and helpful in formulating policy, but of coarse it’s way too late for them now. they’re going to go down with the ship, shouting and cursing all the way – and policies be damned! [good riddance]
August 9th, 2009 at 5:55 pm“Is it true the government is going to run Medicare?”
August 9th, 2009 at 5:56 pmIt’s funny. I just went over to the GOP website and looked at their “Blog”. The last thing posted was on 4/30/09 and since then there’s been about 5-10 people bantering back and forth in the comments. Lately it just seems to be one person. Kinda of pathetic. You should go check it out, it might make you feel a bit sorry for them.
August 9th, 2009 at 6:00 pmI’ll second Mathazar’s recommendation:
“Alright Republicans, we Give up” by Stroszek.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/8/9/84253/14846
It’s good snarky medicine for Depression brought on by infuriating Health Care News.
With Churning Minds like this on our side, the teabaggers Will lose.
August 9th, 2009 at 6:00 pm“Is it true the government is going to run Medicare?”
Heheh. No. They are going to offer you insurance, but only if you want it.
August 9th, 2009 at 6:01 pmGive them what they want? How about a taste of their own police state medicine?
August 9th, 2009 at 6:06 pmDo you have a link for the GOP blog?
August 9th, 2009 at 6:06 pmnext meeting with Sen. Vitter is at Jefferson Parish office at Joe Yenni building in Elmwood, just outside New Orleans.
Jefferson Parish is pretty friendly toward him, but he is getting pretty close to New Orleans, which has a large Democratic population.
Do you think he will try to limit his questions to the pre-screened variety? Or do you think he will “man-up” and try to answer the hard questions?
I bet you it’s all pre-screened again… the coward.
August 9th, 2009 at 6:06 pmMcWars says:
“Is it true the government is going to run Medicare?”
Please, someone go as a teabagger with a placard with McWars ‘brilliant question on it. And for sake of playing on the same playing field, be sure that many pictures of this sign get taken and posted.
August 9th, 2009 at 6:07 pmMeeting is Monday at 10:00 am.
August 9th, 2009 at 6:07 pm[H]e “told them the best security is to do what the people want you to do.”
So, that fascist little diaper-soiling pssy is advocating mob rule?
It figures.
August 9th, 2009 at 6:24 pmFrankly, I hope Vitter is attacked by angry mobs. Death threats & all. Maybe then he’ll understand it just isn’t the American way. It’s lynch-mob mentality at its worst.
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All the people at the town halls are trucked in by Republican groups. Therefore, they are all republicans. Therefore, they are evil, stupid, and fascist.
Sounds about right. Thanks for the info.
August 9th, 2009 at 6:55 pmHope you’re learning to speak Chinese
Don’t insult your Chinese made computer that way.
When we vote you down, it doesn’t mean you’re right to free speech is being taken away from you. It means we disagree with you. If your freedom of speech was being taken away from you, TP would’ve banned you after just one post unlike the official blog of all teabagger terrorists, FREEPER REPUBLIC.
August 9th, 2009 at 6:55 pmPaladinofPeace is really WingnutofWar
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PaladinofPeace,
If you are in favor of Peace, what did you think of the eight years of Dubya? Did you know the Iraq fiasco will cost us about $3 Trillion, 4,335 lives, and has hurt our security?
Did you know that 20,000 Americans die every year due to lack of healthcare and not a single citizen lacks healthcare in any other developed country? And they spend half of what we spend.
Did you know that the government administration of Medicare costs about one-fourth what private insurance administration costs? Did you know that private insurers are convicted of massive fraud all the time?
Did you know the US’s healthcare currently ranks about 37th in the world?
August 9th, 2009 at 7:01 pmThose shouting down congressmen before they even begin to speak are stupid, evil, fascists!
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PaladinofPeace says:
It is just that things go into hiding with enough votes. I’m not sure why.
So we won’t have to look at your stupid bullshit? Just a guess. Give a reasonable argument and we do not vote it down.
August 9th, 2009 at 7:04 pmMy own congressman has censored debate with anyone outside his party by having healthcare forums only at republican club meetings.
Now, what was that about free speech?
August 9th, 2009 at 7:05 pmPaladinofPeace says:
August 9th, 2009 at 7:05 pmIntrepid, if vote down is simply to agree or disagree with my opinion, then I think there is nothing wrong with that. It is just that things go into hiding with enough votes. I’m not sure why.
Because you suck. Get over it.
If you think Acorn and CodePink are running the country—you are very delusional. It is large corporations who are running the country and they have obviously brain-washed you!
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okie dokie says:
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My own congressman has censored debate with anyone outside his party by having healthcare forums only at republican club meetings.
Now, what was that about free speech?
Um… Paladinoofstupidity. Your cue.
August 9th, 2009 at 7:08 pmHey PaldinofPeace, which one of the 5-10 GOP bloggers are you that is commenting to yourself on the GOP.com blog.
GOP.com Blog
You should write to your congressman or senator so they you can have them update the blog posts. They’re like 3 months old dude. WEAK!!!
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They feel angry and disempowered because they’ve been sitting in their recliners watching Fox news since 9/11!
August 9th, 2009 at 7:11 pmWingnutofWar said,
Please provide evidence that the bills proposed are going to cut Medicare by 1/2, and that they are going broke, and that they cost 13-20 times as much as projected. I will wait for your evidence, but I don’t expect you will provide anything but bias sources, if anything at all.
WingnutofWar continued,
All the groups you speak of went after Bush because he was a fascist war criminal. The Republicans are bad people because they didn’t.
WingnutofWar continued,
People that earn more than $250,000 per year profit are not middle class. The middle class isn’t going to pay for the economic catastrophe created by the Republicans, the rich are. You appear to be spreading a lot of disinformation but that is to be expected of a fascist propagandist.
It is also interesting to note that there is a lot of fear and hatred of the Chinese from WingnutofWar. I guess the Chinese are the hate group de jour.
August 9th, 2009 at 7:11 pmSeriously though, that shit reads like some sort of creepy manifesto. Maybe some of us should try to communicate to the poor soul.
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PaladinofPeace says:
Actually, my mother died without healthcare 4 years ago because she had heart disease and could not buy life insurance because she was a diabetic. She left my dad with 1.2 million in medical bills.
IF you are telling the truth—-you do realize that the US is the only developed country in the world where that happens, don’t you? Obama’s mother died of cancer because she could not afford treatment.
August 9th, 2009 at 7:13 pmSounds like Holder is going to hold some of those accountable. Drudgereport is reporting that they are appointing a prosecutor. I know, don’t flame me for keeping an eye on the enemy though.
August 9th, 2009 at 7:13 pmThat is sad PaldinofPeace, but understand we don’t want to euthanize anyone. That’s just unfair propaganda. If you haven’t read the bill, I bet some of us would be glad to go over it with you. It is very confusing, but there’s really nothing “evil” in it.
August 9th, 2009 at 7:15 pmPaladinofPeace says:
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I suck, or my ideas.
Both. Oh….. I forgot. Your intelligence which equates that of Rumprider Limpdick’s asscyst.
Do you really think it is mature to say I suck,
I mean, I DO SUCK!
Fixed. :) :) :)
you might like me if you got to know me.
I like you, I like you, I do, I do, I do. :D
I like the way you suck. Do you?
August 9th, 2009 at 7:18 pmPaladin,
August 9th, 2009 at 7:20 pmI have heard that liberals are going to raise taxes on the middle-class for at least forty years now—-and it never happens. Do you consider the top 1% middle class?
Oh, PoP, Richard Boone wants his frikken handle back, with damages…
August 9th, 2009 at 7:21 pmNeil Cavuto and guest said health care reform will impose universal euthanasia like “Soylent Green.”
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907250010
August 9th, 2009 at 7:22 pmFormer Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called President Barack Obama’s health plan “downright evil” Friday in her first online comments since leaving office, saying in a Facebook posting that he would create a “death panel” that would deny care to the neediest Americans.
If Ms. Palin is Palamino’s source, that explains a lot.
August 9th, 2009 at 7:23 pmI have a hard time believing that somebody that watched their mother rack up 1.5 million in medical expenses would be that negative about healthcare reform!
August 9th, 2009 at 7:24 pmWell, he sees he is outnumbered and disliked for being here with a dumbass, uninformed opinion. Please forgive him, he will take his leave with his wet yellow stained tail between his legs.
August 9th, 2009 at 7:25 pmThe purpose of Vitter’s Town Hall Meeting, was so he could see how many “HOOKERS”, he could get in one room.
August 9th, 2009 at 7:28 pmIs that SamJoe the unlicesed day laborer in the blue shirt?
August 9th, 2009 at 7:29 pmKeith says:
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Neil Cavuto and guest said health care reform will impose universal euthanasia like “Soylent Green.”
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/20090725001
Cavuto needs a shot of euthanasia fast.
Yup. Leave it to Fake Noise to stir up more dirt to enrage the elderly who are most likely the majority of Fake Noises’ viewership.
August 9th, 2009 at 7:32 pmI knew the WingnutofWar would turn tail and run without supporting any of his propaganda claims. They always cut and run when confronted by reality, just like Palin did.
August 9th, 2009 at 7:32 pmThe neocons were heard for 8 years under George Bush which is why Americans turned on them in 2006 & 2008, so why are they yelling to have their voices heard now? We’ve heard enough of their bullcrap!
August 9th, 2009 at 7:33 pmokie dokie says:
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I have a hard time believing that somebody that watched their mother rack up 1.5 million in medical expenses would be that negative about healthcare reform!
There’s something wrong with that picture.
August 9th, 2009 at 7:34 pmI don’t won’t to hear what any of them have to say. I’m so utterly sick of them. Why would anybody show up at all to hear that diaper wearing dipshit unless they were paid?
August 9th, 2009 at 7:35 pmThe people that buy into that euthanasia b.s must have not ever witnessed end of life care with medicare and hospice.
August 9th, 2009 at 7:37 pmBy the way trolls, What is the GOP proposing to do about Health Care? Oh, we hear how evil the Dems plan is.’Socailism’ ‘Nazism’ are the Repugs favorite buzz-words. But what is their solution? A big fat nothing. This reminds me of the year 2006, when Bush flew all over the country (rather, Red States) to campaign for Repugs, and all he keep saying is if you vote for a Dem, you die! He didn’t talk about Health Care, the Environment or anything except Dems were weak on Security. Well, 2006 proved to be a disaster for Repugs. And if Health Care goes down in flames, people will blame the Repugs.
August 9th, 2009 at 7:41 pmSoylent Green was a pretty cool movie, though.
Hey, somebody should tweet
August 9th, 2009 at 7:44 pm“SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!”
on Palin’s Twitter!
okie dokie,
I hear it tastes like Moose!
August 9th, 2009 at 7:49 pmPalidino you are an ignorant moron. A stupid punkass troll. The thing is we already KNOW that so what else do you think you are accomplishing with your mindless and inane posts? Why dont you just STFU and let the adults talk
August 9th, 2009 at 7:53 pmKeith;
As long as it doesn’t taste like dead fish going with the flow!
August 9th, 2009 at 7:58 pmokie@98, LOL! That’s another Palinism that will go down in infamy!
August 9th, 2009 at 8:00 pmIronically, it’s also a perfect description of the angry mobs that show up at the healthcare town halls, P.D..
August 9th, 2009 at 8:04 pmI just talked to my 93 year old grandmother, and she was worried about these people marching on D.C. She said it reminded her of the marches during the Viet Nam war, when people were throwing blood on the capitol steps and there was much head-cracking. I told her not to worry. A few of these nuts get cracked on the head, they’ll snap out of it. I told her about the fizzle of the tea parties, and how they used tricks Orson Welles pioneered to make a handful of people look like a crowd, and about the very same individuals who were in the Brooks Brother’s riots being spotted at the town hall meetings.
She expressed awe at the rank stupidity and breathtaking ignorance. She brought up Sarah Palin. Natural segue, hey?
We’ll be alright.
August 9th, 2009 at 8:12 pmYa know, when folks like our late friend paladin here announce their arrivals with comments like, “Keep working while all the “progressives” progress this country right into a collapsed dollar and depression.”, and then complain that we’re voting down their “ideas” because we like censorship…
it’s almost like they want to be voted down. Like they planned it.
It doesn’t really sound like he showed up looking for rational discourse. It sounds like he deliberately crafted his comments to prevent rational discourse. Funny how that goes, huh?
August 9th, 2009 at 8:16 pmNobody from the Left was there?
Folks in Louisiana are lucky, here in Hawaii there are no Town Halls being held by either side, so I have to stay home and watch other states deal with this – I’d go to both, but I’d definitely be there if there were Republicans holding one of those in my area.
August 9th, 2009 at 8:18 pmThe fascist theocratic Republicans hate the internet. They can’t prevent rational discussion, they can only interrupt it and try to change the subject. Town hall meetings are so much easier to disrupt.
I still want to see the faces of the teabaggers as they arrive at the next town hall meeting, through a gauntlet of prison busses, with an army of riot police waiting for them.
All we have to do is enforce existing laws, and the Republican Party will stop trying to disrupt our democracy.
August 9th, 2009 at 8:21 pmAfter this summer, if any of you ever feel the need to vote for any repiggies, even for local office, do us all a favor and keep your butt at home on election day.
By the way, Lou Dobbs is a moron.
August 9th, 2009 at 8:21 pmI’ll have you know I’ve only voted for one republican in my life.
August 9th, 2009 at 8:33 pmThat was John Anderson in 1980, and he was running as an Independant.
If he received a large enough percentage of the vote, which I believe he did, he would be re-enbursed for some of his campaign money.
And Carter wasn’t going to carry Oklahoma, anyway.
Uh, oh.
I don’t like the looks of this…..
Our post are all slanting to the right!
August 9th, 2009 at 8:38 pmI haven’t voted for a Repug in years. By the way, Chirac admits that Bush’s war with Iraq had something to do with destroying Gog and Magog. Talk about having a Messianic Complex.
August 9th, 2009 at 8:46 pmpoll.democratz.org,
I don’t think such a tasteless poster, however accurate, is quite the style of the progressive movement. It does, however, seem to be the type of tactic used by the Republicans.
Who’s side are you on Poll.democratz.org?
August 9th, 2009 at 8:46 pmHi poll.democratz.org…
August 9th, 2009 at 8:54 pmBecause I point out that you are posting a link to a tasteless attack add, I am a Republican? You will soon learn that spamming petitions, no matter how worthy, is wrong. Posting vulgar images, no matter how well intentioned, is also wrong.
I realize that virtually all Republicans cannot differentiate between right and wrong, and apparently neither can you.
August 9th, 2009 at 8:56 pmWell, I guess there are more destructive forms of acting out than blog abuse.
August 9th, 2009 at 8:57 pmI can see it won’t be long before poll.democratz.org is banned for spamming. Please vote down all his posts and flag him for abusive spam.
August 9th, 2009 at 8:58 pmI would say Mr. Dennis Baer (aka.poll.democratz.org)is just a stooge trying to make Dems look bad.
Pathetic
August 9th, 2009 at 9:03 pmGood God this is making me ill. I just got off the phone with my aged mother who lives in Texas, and she was railing on about how the new health care system was going to pay for sex-change operations.
I said, well, I don’t know if that is true, but even if it is, just how many people do you think want sex-change operations?
Then she went on about how they are going to euthenise old people. I tried to explain to her that the living will has been around for 20 years, and it is about the care you wish to receive when you are critically ill.
All she could say was, “haven’t you seen the news?”
Good Freaking Deep Fried Baby Jesus on a Stick.
I was able to make some headway with her when I explained that her Medicare was free to her as she was over 65, she said, “No it is not, I pay for it every month, they take it out of my check.
The only way I was able to get any indignation out of her was to mention that Medicare pays for boner pills.
I also got her to agree that insurance companies are denying benefits based on pre-existing conditions.
How can we possibly pass a decent heath care bill in the country when this is the sort of ignorance that people like my mom have because they only get their news from TV. She doesn’t care enough about the process to become well informed, but she will parrot the talking points.
My mom is not stupid, she is just easily led.
August 9th, 2009 at 9:05 pmI wish I had a nickel for every dollar spent on making Democrats look bad.
August 9th, 2009 at 9:07 pmI agree RandomChaos. While I find the poster of Vitter in a diaper amusing, it is, at the very least, inappropriate. It smells of Republican style politics to send a shill here to pretend to be progressive, while sowing the seeds of discord.
Poll.democratz.org is not the first stooge the wingnuts have sent to make trouble, and he won’t be the last until he ends up in a re-education gulag with the rest of his fascist buddies.
August 9th, 2009 at 9:08 pmHi Another Joe.
August 9th, 2009 at 9:12 pmkarendotcom,
Let me give you my brother’s phone number.
August 9th, 2009 at 9:12 pmMaybe you can…..
Naaah. He’s hopeless.
Our yellow-dog Democrat dad is spinning in his grave.
Spamming a thread is a republican tactic. Shouting down anyone who wants to speak the truth about health care is also another tactic. Listening with their fingers in their ears is their most favorite tactic!
August 9th, 2009 at 9:17 pmpoll.democratz.org = another joe?
August 9th, 2009 at 9:18 pmWell Dennis or Joe or whatever.
You are wrong. And spamming these threads is also wrong.
Deal with it.
August 9th, 2009 at 9:25 pmI have belonged to the Democratic party for more years than some of you appear alive.
August 9th, 2009 at 9:25 pm—-
That is so cool!
I wonder if there are any of us that do not appear alive.
August 9th, 2009 at 9:26 pmI think our poll spammer is fibbing.
August 9th, 2009 at 9:42 pmDennis, shouldn’t you have said you have your OWN party?
The Liberal Democratic Party no doubt?
LOL
What is the Liberal Democratic Party. I heard about them, and checked them out online, and they seemed a bit fishy. Does anyone else feel the same way?
August 9th, 2009 at 9:43 pmTEN!! The number of completion. The turning of the Big Wheel.
I’ve been accused of being a neo-con, Levi—on a board where I had the audacity to say that the U.S. isn’t ALL bad, and I would not accept abuse from the Bush administration from Brits, because we’re chips off the old block. I’m glad the American bashing is over. I have been ashamed of my government’s actions, but I love my country, and no matter where I go I’ll always be an American. Fortunately, that’s not the lethal condition it was a few years ago, and we have a lot more to be proud of now.
Every country has their share of wing-nutty, narrow-minded idiots. Why should we be any different?
August 9th, 2009 at 9:57 pmI wonder…
Did the Tea Baggers in attendance wear diapers as a show of support for Mr Vitter?
August 9th, 2009 at 9:59 pmOT but it is Sunday….
August 9th, 2009 at 10:02 pmBut that failed ”Cash for Clunkers” program has dealers running out of cars.. a another failed government program. (sarcasm)
I just laugh when someone thinks I am a Republican. I openly call for mass arrests of Republicans and the prosecution of them for treason, but I guess all Republicans do that.
I seriously doubt poll.democratz.com is a Democrat at all. the entire democratz.org site looks a lot like a front site designed to make Democrats look bad. I base this off of the fact that this “blog” is trying to sell Obama coins, it details how Republicans are to disrupt town halls, it discusses SEIU, it insults liberal groups as being “timid” because they do not embrace its boycotts, and it rails about the cost of healthcare reform.
I am not an authority on such things, but I smell yet another fascist theocrat Republican fake progressive site, just there to spread more propaganda and disinformation.
August 9th, 2009 at 10:12 pmWhat type of expertise does a David Vitter possess anyway ?
The man is a walking mental furball…………..
August 9th, 2009 at 10:33 pmpoll.democratz.org says:
This comment has been voted down. Click to read.
The very definition of a spamming troll in action. FLAGGED!
Another Joe, you went away once, please feel free to do so again. As Ralph so eloquently stated yesterday, your “progressiver than thou” shtick is tiresome.
PEACE
August 9th, 2009 at 10:34 pmspencer’s mom:
August 9th, 2009 at 10:49 pmI was just #10 on his last 2 posts in this thread and I’m a bit ashamed to admit it felt good.
Unfortunately democratzi.annoy’s Liberal Democrat party is sort of like the Mad Hatter’s tea party. Half a cup, anyone?
August 9th, 2009 at 10:52 pmQuestion: When you are using your favorite Prostitute, what brand of diaper do you most prefer? And do you mess your ‘dieddees’ for her?
Guess my question wouldn’t pass screening.
Fcuk the Republic Fascist Party
August 9th, 2009 at 11:03 pmGood God this is making me ill. I just got off the phone with my aged mother who lives in Texas, and she was railing on about how the new health care system was going to pay for sex-change operations.
I said, well, I don’t know if that is true, but even if it is, just how many people do you think want sex-change operations?
You are not alone. I’m in the same situation. I’m constantly having to talk against the misinformation she spouts. It’s right off the wingnut internet site but she doesn’t have the internet so the only place it could be coming from is from her church. Somebody there is feeding her this.
August 9th, 2009 at 11:54 pmIs your mom a democrat, Mr. Cobb?
August 10th, 2009 at 12:00 am“Mental fur ball”. I like that.
August 10th, 2009 at 12:15 amBuckie Boy says:
Question: When you are using your favorite Prostitute, what brand of diaper do you most prefer? And do you mess your ‘dieddees’ for her?
August 9th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
I’m pretty sure that anything Vitter does in his diedees is all for himself. Yuck…
That pro must rake in some large cash.
August 10th, 2009 at 12:20 amkarendotcom & Mr Cobb,
I have the same problem with my dad. It’s very frustrating, because he KNOWS he’s right, and there is no telling him different — no fact will penetrate. He’s a great fan of Billo.
August 10th, 2009 at 12:23 am130. Levi the Dungbeetle says: I wonder if there are any of us that do not appear alive.
August 10th, 2009 at 12:46 amOops.
August 10th, 2009 at 12:46 amSorry, Mr. Cobb.
You were talking about karendotcom’s mom, not your’s.
130. Levi the Dungbeetle says: I wonder if there are any of us that do not appear alive.
(oop. a little too quick on the keyboard there. ahem and harumph)
I’ve occasionally wondered if I’ve died and gone to the wrong place, then some silly arse like Vitter comes along and convinces me that it’s still the same damn stupid world…
August 10th, 2009 at 12:49 amI can’t believe this country keeps trying to do a 180 to backwards policies!
August 10th, 2009 at 12:52 amZooey, we know. I told her that I’m going to look at transfering with the job to a larger city so I can make more money. She doesn’t want me to.
August 10th, 2009 at 12:54 am53. PaladinofPeace says: All the people at the town halls are trucked in by Republican groups. Therefore, they are all republicans. Therefore, they are evil, stupid, and fascist.
Oh those evil rePublicrites. Won’t even bring them by in a nice air conditioned van or bus. They just stuff ‘em into a pig hauler or a cattle car, they don’t even hose out the manure… And it’s Louisiana in high summer. Dang.
It’s a tough life, troll PoP. (you’re a disgrace to the title paladin, by the way.)
August 10th, 2009 at 12:56 amThe fundies told us, “In the end-times, good would be considered evil.” But it’s really the opposite. Now, evil is considered good like Pat Robertson.
August 10th, 2009 at 1:05 am153. Mr. Cobb sez:…
Surely you mean that “evil is considered good like Pat Robertson might have been good before this inversion but now he’s evil so that’s good…”
Excedrin headache number 153…
August 10th, 2009 at 1:15 am153. Mr. Cobb sez:…
Surely you mean that “evil is considered good like Pat Robertson might have been good before this inversion but now he’s evil so that’s good…”
Excedrin headache number 153…
You just have to think harder.
August 10th, 2009 at 1:23 amOK, I edited my previous post:
The fundies told us, “In the end-times, good would be considered evil.” But it’s really the opposite. Now, evil is considered good
Here’s a simpler example:
Fundies say that, “In the End-Times” that “good would be considered evil.”
Fundies:
Bush = good
but,
Evil = Bush
Fundies:
Vitter = good
but,
Evil = Vitter
August 10th, 2009 at 1:31 amOf course, I don’t think there’s such a thing a ‘good’ or ‘evil.’ However, that’s how things are termed in this and other cultures.
People are motivated by their own personal (selfish) problems because of this society and other societies.
We’re apes. All mammals, the same. Study chimps and you’ll see the same thing. Some act good and some seem evil. Are they “good” because that’s just their nature or “evil” because of theirs?
August 10th, 2009 at 1:41 amI’m just totally way over everybody’s head. I don’t know anymore what the internet can “teach me.”
August 10th, 2009 at 2:05 amThere’s nothing anymore from others…
August 10th, 2009 at 2:06 amIt’s just the same thing, going round and around now…
August 10th, 2009 at 2:08 amWell, we’ve certainly seen the right wing media try to portray Obama as evil.
They condemn him for his every effort of compassion.
Yet all of his intentions appear to be for the good, to me.
And most of these big churches and televangelists that condemn his good intent are corrupted by greed and intolerance.
Greed is the root of all evil.
But most of the neocons that are manifesting all of these lies and diversions are big believers in the whole end of days scenario.
I don’t know whether they really think they’re setting the stage for Armageddon, or it’s another scam to freak everybody out so they can gain more power, control, and of course, wealth.
Personally, everything about religion should be followed by a big “maybe”.
August 10th, 2009 at 2:53 amMy biggest fear is paranoia.
Remember back in the 60’s everyone trying to disrupt anything was beaten,arrested and jailed by riot police, highway patrol, etc.
August 10th, 2009 at 3:54 amWhat is the difference here?
Oh yeah…. that was when reagunz was gov in cali. Now it’s all clear.
Let us know how that level of enlightenment that transcends the internet goes, Mr. Cobb. Maybe you need to broaden your search for knowledge.
August 10th, 2009 at 4:01 amThe townhall disruptions are an unprecedented sign of desperation by the Right. They are really at the end of their tether.
I say this because protest does not come naturally to right-wingers. They usually rely on disinformation to do their dirty work.
We need to think about how badly the Right crapped out–I mean, the massive, mind-boggling humiliation of the Right’s failure. They had the whole Federal government to play around with for six years, with an ignorant public and a compliant media–and you can’t name a single thing they did that wasn’t a Guiness Book of World Records-shattering megacatastrophe.
History will be decades in evaluating the failure of the political Right in America. It really is breathtaking.
Keep in mind, the right are mostly white males of modest intelligence who think they;re geniuses. I’m sure their suicide rate is skyrocketing. :)
The Right are hiding in their basements, saving ammo, saying incontinent things, praying for a terror attack, and in general peeing their pants.
What our winger friends want to do, of course, is to attack the left with violence. But as I say, the right are cowards.
Video: Bait & Switch
August 10th, 2009 at 6:26 amNeither Amanda Terkel nor thetowntalk.com provides any proof, in this article, that the questions were prescreened. Also, prescreening is not necessarily bad, it depends upon the criteria used in and the purpose for the screening. According to the picture shown, there is a not “little chance for disagreement to be expressed.” There are many people in the picture therefore many chances for disagreement to be expressed.
August 10th, 2009 at 10:55 amMy mom is not stupid, she is just easily led.
Burn her TV and buy here a pass to your local state parks.
Get her out more often. Ignoring old folks and giving them no other option other than to sit around watching Faux Newz is NOT HELPING.
Just sayin…
August 10th, 2009 at 1:02 pmTomLei says:
Your brown shirt does little to hide the pee-stains.
August 10th, 2009 at 1:04 pmTomLei says:
August 10th, 2009 at 10:55 am
That’s rich, coming from a birther.
August 10th, 2009 at 2:33 pmNothing like trusting in a guy that pays hookers to have sex with and dress him up in a diaper because his wife won’t do it.
A real republican hero……………….Hannity’s type of republican
August 11th, 2009 at 3:07 am