More Video Of The GOP Mob Attack In Florida
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Ironically, the GOP may have jumped the shark in Florida, again…
All they’re doing is following the Limbaugh/Beck/Hannity playbook – yell as loud as possible and try and stop progress.
God, I’m sick of these people.
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We’re equally as sick of big government bullshit from progressives.
You mean like 8 years of progressively larger budget deficits that didn’t even include the cost of 2 failed wars Gabe? Or 8 years of progressive slashing of regulatory safeguards in the financial sector that ushered in the most devastating fiscal disaster since 1929?
Or are you referring to ‘progressing our nation’ a la Sarah Palin?
Like Medicare? Like Medicaid? Like Social Security?
Hate to break it to you Gabby, but these are wildly popular programs. A government option for affordable health insurance will be as well, and you can kiss your dying party goodbye when it happens.
The noise machine is breaking down. Once again, adults are going to do the right thing, not GOP simpletons who can only whine and shit their diapers in public.
“You mean like 8 years of progressively larger budget deficits that didn’t even include the cost of 2 failed wars Gabe”
Yes…Exactly like that. This government is a disaster and has been for years.
“Like Medicare? Like Medicaid? Like Social Security?”
Yes..exactly like that..Unless they’re severely reformed they will bankrupt this nation.
‘Yes…Exactly like that. This government is a disaster and has been for years.’
Yes, Bush was a disaster; what I posted occurred under his administration.
Obama has had 7 months, btw.
No, Republican-led government is a disaster. Under Clinton, we had peace and prosperity. Under Obama, we’re on the road to recovery from eight years of GOP incompetence.
Again, this goes to the heart of the GOP’s failed ideology — you guys hate government. No wonder you’re so fucking awful at it.
We’re equally as sick of big government bullshit from progressives.
Wait, I didn’t understand that. Now that you have explained that anarchy is the answer to society’s problems, I see why preventing others from exercising their First Amendment rights is the right thing to do.
“Under Clinton, we had peace and prosperity. Under Obama, we’re on the road to recovery from eight years of GOP incompetence.”
We did have peace and prosperity. But are the reasons for that? Balanced budgets by the GOP congress, a relatively humble foreign policy, and largely a limited government.
The further we get away from solid fundamentals, and sound economic policies, the more this country will flounder.
I’m not a Clinton hater. He was a better president than Bush. But we had more balance in the government back then.
Yeah, well, fuck you — fucking win an election, you pants-wetting piece of shit.
“Yeah, well, fuck you — fucking win an election, you pants-wetting piece of shit.”
Such anger. Didn’t get your welfare check on time this week?
Unlike right wingers who get their diapers directly paid for by their saddened and disappointed parents and wingnut welfare, I actually have to work for a living.
I’m not “angry” — you’re mistaking utter derision for anger.
I know, I know, you think you deserve to be paid just because you cry when a liberal black man is Preznit, but in adult world, this doesn’t happen, and no matter how many times you do poopy in the pants at a teabag re-enactment, the rest of us have to work.
“The further we get away from solid fundamentals, and sound economic policies, the more this country will flounder. ”
Jesus Christ, where were your between 2001-2008?
Uhhh criticizing Bush when he deserved it, which was often.
Gabe wrote: This government is a disaster and has been for years.
Which of course is why you and your cohorts are so desperately trying to get back in.
Trying to finish the job?
Black conservative health care protester beaten by four SEIU thugs in St. Louis town hall meeting.
Called racist slurs by attacker.
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“Kenneth Gladney, a 38-year-old conservative activist from St. Louis, said he was attacked by some of those arrested as he handed out yellow flags with “Don’t tread on me” printed on them. He spoke to the Post-Dispatch from the emergency room of the St. John’s Mercy Medical Center, where he said he was waiting to be treated for injuries to his knee, back, elbow, shoulder and face that he suffered in the attack. Gladney, who is black, said one of his attackers, also a black man, used a racial slur against him before the attack started.
“It just seems there’s no freedom of speech without being attacked,” he said.
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All they’re doing is following the
Limbaugh/Beck/HannityRahm/Axelrod/Ayers/Alinsky playbook –yell as loud as possible“we won, and if you don’t like it, we will strike you down” to try and stopprogresspatriotic dissent.God, I’m sick of these people.
Don’t you hate when black people play the race card Dennis amirite?
Are you saying he did play the race card, “Enlightened Liberal”?
Btw, your nom de plume is right up there with ‘News Reference’ when it comes to irony, EL.
What do you think was the racial slur? Uncle Tom, minstrel toadie, house n*gger? Any other ones I’m missing that you guys use so frequently here for any black person who doesn’t follow the liberal groupthink?
Hush, Dennis. They’re just following Obama’s instructions to “get in their faces” — our faces being the ones gotten into.
Getting back in their faces, though — that’s unpatriotic.
We don’t have the License To Bully (a.k.a. a union card) that we need to do that.
J.
Ha ha ’cause how could there be an ‘enlightened liberal’ ha ha???
Christ. Whatever. Hey, let’s keep the same old system that costs me and my employer each $3500 a year. Let’s keep the crappy system where people can get kicked off their insurance suddenly when they get ‘too’ sick. Let’s keep paying a corporate middleman ever increasing amounts of money each year to cover smaller percentages of people while they pad the executive bank accounts. Let’s just have all the uninsured wait in overcrowded emergency rooms to get treated. And by all means, let’s not propose any new ideas to address problems, because that apparently is socialism.
As Adam Smith said,
abanterer,
That is the problem, absolutely Boone is saying we don’t need reform. Just that what is bring proposed is the wrong way. Healthcare can easily be fixed without a govt takeover.
We could easily limit malpractice suit awards & offer doctors & pharmacies tax credits for treating uninsured patients. That would provide for the uninsured, lower existing premiums and lower the govt cost of Medicare. All without increasing the size of govt.
This is not an effective way to get opinions from the populace. The disorder on display here is appalling. Clearly this is a big problem. Perhaps we need Robert’s Rules of Order to be applied to these public meetings. Something formal and substantive.
I fear we have forgotten how to do that. We have one of the greatest histories of rational disagreement, what happened to it?
((The namecalling present in these comments appalls me too, but not as much as an inability to run a simple meeting does. Of course, maybe the comments on this blog are the signifier for how these town hall meetings seem to be run and disrupted — chaos.))
Perhaps someone should take on that Republican asshole who said “If you get hit, we will punch back twice as hard.”
Whoops, my bad. That was White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina in a meeting with Senate Democrats yesterday.
This morning, Dennis Miller said that Obama’s starting to remind him more and more of Richard Nixon — and that’s not that much of a stretch. I can readily see Haldeman or Ehrlichman saying just that — and rejoicing when those who oppose their president’s policies end up in the ER.
J.
I knew there was a keen & insightful analyst from whom I hadn’t heard on this subject! Thank god for the noted scholar and philosophicalist Dennis Miller!
Of course, Messina was just following the example of his boss, Mr. “Get in their faces.”
J.
This morning, Dennis Miller said that Obama’s starting to remind him more and more of Richard Nixon
Miller? Is he still on TV? Or is he sleeping on your sofa, Mr. Tea?
Yesterday was epic fail for baggers in Denver. They were outnumbered. After the event more than half boarded a bus that was taking them to a rally in Colorado Springs..Several carrying signs with Rush “Obama is a Nazi”. I pointed out to them govt run V.A. provided my custom brace that allows me to stand and walk.
Ironically,as in my case, more supporters of Public Option etc will attend to counter these ignorant zealots than we otherwise would.
In 2008 Obama said it best
“It’s like these guys take pride in being ignorant.
They think it’s funny that they’re making fun of something that is actually true.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuZ9sTIbbHE&feature=related
On the health care issue- one is either in favor of substantial reform or they are not. From an ideological perspective it is possible to for reform, but opposed to an expanding government role, and I would think that anyone who held such a view would be more interested in joining the debate rather than trying to shut it down.
While there has clearly been encouragement of this unruly behavior from anti-reform lobbying groups, I don’t know that “astro-turfing” is the appropriate description of what’s going on. There is a paranoid core of the conservative movement who honestly believe that Obama and the Democrats are working to usurp the constitution and install a socialist authoritarian state.
They are less interested in the particulars of the health care issue than they are in “taking it to the streets” in a show of what they perceive to be a populist groundswell in opposition to Obama in general. The townhall meetings on healthcare are just convenient forums where there is likely to be press coverage.
When the radical fringe feels completely powerless to shape the debate in a civil fashion, it resorts to uncivil behavior. It doesn’t matter if said radicals are from the left or the right. As long as Obama and the Democrats control the White House and Congress, this will be the most satisfying avenue for dissent that the right has, so we might as well get used to at least seven and a half more years of it, as I have serious doubts that the American public will be interested in rewarding Republicans for attempting to derail health care reform, especially if they are actually successful in doing so.
Some opponents accused the organizers of trying to stack the crowd by allowing early admission to those on their side. Reed denied that, saying those admitted early were organizers setting up the room.
Union thug tactics crushing dissent.
Setting up a room to hold a meeting is “union thuggery”?
Um, OK. I guess there’s also “thuggery” going on down at the public library during children’s story hour too.
Quaker, they set up the room, and in the process roped off about half the seats for themselves and their allies. Then they plopped their butts down before the general public was admitted.
They also opened up a normally-closed handicapped entrance for their allies, making sure the room was properly packed.
The “thuggery” came in when those not on the “approved” list tried to gain entry to this alleged “public” event by the same means as they saw others using.
J.
Glad someone got a picture of the kids in a stroller… That was the saddest thing I saw… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/07/pelosi-protesters-includi_n_253762.html
no doubt they will be home schooled so their parents can control what they learn.
Yes…Exactly like that. This government is a disaster and has been for years.
The first honest thing you’ve said here.
Uhhh criticizing Bush when he deserved it, which was often.
Funny, never saw you at the meetings.
This morning, Dennis Miller said that Obama’s starting to remind him more and more of Richard Nixon
WTF?
I’m this close to a self-imposed exile from all news, media and politics. This is just getting too stupid.
Broooks Brothers II – Electric Boogaloo
It’s classic “Rules for Radicals’, matt621.
And nice takedown of the peanut gallery last night. Like John Galt’s speech, long, but every word rang true.
I sincerely hope the retard right actually thinks this is leading to victory. Please, please convince yourselves of this. Please. I beg you.
John Galt is such a douche.
I hear Mogadishu is nice this time of year.
Townhall disrupter=teabaggers=birthers. They are all the same mob. They lost and they will continue to lose, and they know it, that’s why they are so angry.
“Gee, I wonder what comes next?”
End the town hall meetings. Seriously.
Y’see, despite the tyranny you and every oxygen-deprived fetal alcohol talking sore asshole out there think you live in, the opportunity was there for a civil debate on a very serious issue, in public, at varying levels of government -quite accessible, compared to previous administrations.
What did those opposed to the healthcare reforms bring to the debate? Rhetotic, shouting matches, jingoisms, in a word, Nothing.
Therefore, just end the debate, since its clear the opposition would rather choose to squander the opportunity by acting like patent assholes instead of offer alternatives.
The past election cycles happened for a reason to put the majorities where they are. Virtually any bill can be ramrodded at a whim, so why even bother with the dead-enders who won’t negotiate? Pass the healthcare reforms and be done with it. Fuck ‘em.
The townhalls brought nothing? You’re serious?
I never said “The townhalls brought nothing?”, I said the healthcare opponents brought nothing. You still got nothing.
Do you know how Obama got elected? It’s a one word answer.
Palin.
Perhaps you’d like to revise your thoughts about what the townhalls brought, and what the future effects may be.
No need to revise but I’ll put it in terms you might understand:
Assholes no welcome during civ-il de-bate. If assholes still come, no de-bate. Assholes go home and stay home. Pass health care re-form. Fuck you, assholes.
There are many recent historical events to aid you in your research.
Researched.
Do you know how Obama got elected? It’s a one word answer.
Voters?
McCain?
Economy?
Do you know how Obama got elected? It’s a one word answer.
Anger. Harnessed, focused, directed anger.
Whose?
“We could easily limit malpractice suit awards & offer doctors & pharmacies tax credits for treating uninsured patients. That would provide for the uninsured, lower existing premiums and lower the govt cost of Medicare. All without increasing the size of govt.”
Limit malpractice suits? I don’t agree; what are we talking about, capping patient awards? So, some doctor screws up and damages a guy, and he gets a pittance and a card from the doctor? And is malpracice so common that limiting the awards would substantially reduce rates? If it’s something else, hey, I can be wrong.
And if we’re offering tax credits for treatment, then aren’t we going to have to raise taxes, something that the right is complaining about? We’d have to do something to account for the shortfall. And what about testing labs, hospital stays and home care? There’s a lot more than check ups and pills involved with health care. Is it covering glasses? Dental? Physical therapy?
And we’ve only scratched some problems; there’s still a lot of uninsured out there. A person who has pre-existing conditions would not be picked up by an insurer unless he really got lucky, and the uninsured are still paying through the nose for treatment. Unless these tax credits are allowing doctors and pharmacists to supply services and good for free, which I sincerely doubt.
I don’t know who this Boone is, but he’s got to do a lot more explaining before I’d get onboard with his plan. Of course, someone MIGHT have tried to explain that plan at, say, a public meeting or something, and maybe it got lot with the riots and all.
‘This morning, Dennis Miller said that Obama’s starting to remind him more and more of Richard Nixon’
Quoting Dennis Miller isn’t the best way to get your point across; he’s an ass.
‘Do you know how Obama got elected? It’s a one word answer.
Anger. Harnessed, focused, directed anger. ‘
Tell us again whose supporters were accusing the other side’s candidate of bringing more attacks against America, of being a Muslim, of palling around with terrorists, of not being native born?
Which side was that again?