Repeat Of McCain-Palin
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You remember those McCain-Palin rallies where the GOP saw their crazed crowds as something of a boost to the failing campaign? And then people began yelling “terrorist” and “kill him” and the like, and it became a liability? As Ben Smith notes, this is becoming a mighty likely result of the astroturf campaign that’s targeting House members. The protest isn’t organic, but the people it attracts are super-fringers likely to say crazy stuff. And the minority leader John Boehner took a break from his tanning bed to cheer them on.
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These people are great. Free speech baby!!!!
They’re morons who hate America, and whose understanding of the Constitution is on par with your pre-school sloganeering. Real Americans will see them, and the rest of the Republican scum, for the evil slime that they are.
I just had a flashback to when I was in 4th grade in 1976 & some demented kids marched around on the playground, chanting “Carter’s a farter! Carter’s a farter!”
Heh.
The funniest part is that if any of the Democrats they were screaming at just invited them up on stage and asked them to calmly state what they wanted to say, they’d be flabbergasted and scurry home with their tails between their legs.
“They’re morons who hate America, and whose understanding of the Constitution is on par with your pre-school sloganeering. Real Americans will see them, and the rest of the Republican scum, for the evil slime that they are.”
Cool???!!
So they prefer the status quo and to live in ignorance. I hope they remember this when they have to sell their home to pay their hospital bill, or have to choose between the next meal and the next prescription.
These people are great. Free speech baby!!!!
What about the congressmen’s free speech? It’s kind of hard to claim you’re for free speech when your entire strategy is to scream so loudly that you can’t hear the other guy.
That John Boehner line was classic!!
“These people are great. Free speech baby!!!!”
I don’t understand how the second sentence of the above logically follows the first sentence unless you believe that anyone practicing their free speech rights (no matter the actual content of the speech) is “great.” So I guess if I were to practice my free speech rights by writing that “Gabriel McKee is a revolting excuse for a human being, a walking advertisement for birth control,” you would think that I’m a “great person,” too, huh? Cool, I love having my ego massaged.
“What about the congressmen’s free speech?”
Mr. McKee only favors heckler-uninterrupted free speech when he AGREES with the speech. If a congressperson was making a speech advocating for the abolition of the Department of Education and some heckler started shouting things about how that would be a bad idea, you think that our guy Gabe would be going on about how the latter individual was a “great person?” Yeah right.
The GOP is doomed.
It’s a protest, as I see it. Did anyone break the law in either of those two posted videos. If so, please show me.
“Pryme” wrote, “So they prefer the status quo and to live in ignorance. I hope they remember this when they have to sell their home to pay their hospital bill, or have to choose between the next meal and the next prescription.”
Interesting. Obama himself has championed the Mayo Clinic as an affordable, top quality health care provider. However, the same Mayo Clinic said recently that as to the House health care proposal, overall “the proposed legislation misses the opportunity to help create higher quality, more affordable health care for patients.” Officials of the Mayo Clinic, a large, nonprofit healthcare provider based in Minnesota, said, “In fact, it will do the opposite,” because the proposals aren’t patient-focused or results-oriented.
Very telling statement.
And get this: the Mayo Clinic officials also said, “The real losers will be the citizens of the United States.”
Wow. Wonder what Obama is saying about the Mayo Clinic now.
Meanwhile, the Chicago-based healthcare professional who Barack Obama trusted for more than 20 years of care, has voiced great concern about Obama’s plan. At the Huffington Post, Sam Stein writes:
“Dr. David Scheiner, a 70-year Chicago-based physician who treated Obama for more than 20 years, said he was disheartened by the health care legislation his former patient is championing, calling it piecemeal and ineffectual.”
some guy:
What point are you making here ?
Both groups / people you cite say the new plan doesn’t go far enough and I imagine most here would agree with that.
The point that “some guy” is making is that he’s a goddamned moron.
Schneider is wary of Obama’s plan because it doesn’t go far enough and because he’s a proponent of an even more progressive, single-payer system. Which would have been obvious to even an idiot like “some guy” if he had actually read the entire article instead of copying and pasting that single lede from whatever weblog convinced him he didn’t actually need to think about anything on his own.
I’m really enjoying the influx of trolls here who not only spew babble, but then try to supply evidence that only proves they’re idiots.
The AP reports this morning:
“Briefing reporters Tuesday, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs suggested that the opposition is being organized by a small group seeking to create ‘manufactured anger.’”
“Manufactured anger”? So there isn’t really any true anger at all, then? Perhaps all these completely evil Conservatives are just trying to simulate it?
Interesting.
Oh look, he’s still trying.
“Manufactured anger”? So there isn’t really any true anger at all, then? Perhaps all these completely evil Conservatives are just trying to simulate it?
We in the business call it “poutrage.”
If a congressperson was making a speech advocating for the abolition of the Department of Education and some heckler started shouting things about how that would be a bad idea, you think that our guy Gabe would be going on about how the latter individual was a “great person?” Yeah right.
Nope, he’d be helping to “escort” the dirty hippies from the premises.