Showing posts with label town hall mobs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label town hall mobs. Show all posts

Friday, August 07, 2009

Levin: Obama Accountable if Violence Occurs at Town Halls

Now Hannity and his ilk are likening Obama to the mob.
Mark Levin says Obama is giving terrorists more rights than Americans. That's just ludicrous.
Enough already. These people are spreading nothing but hate. They're sickening. The lies they're spreading about health care are unbelievable. It's hard to believe that rational people are falling for this crap. And what do these people have with ACORN? Geez. They're obsessed.
I think Obama should take health care off the table. And while he's at it, he should cancel Medicare/Medicaid and maybe "patriotic Americans" will learn something. Dismantle Health and Human Services. Then we'll all be getting into the same boat. And we'll be saving a lot of money!
The thing is, we might be able to get a good bill if there was actually a legitimate debate but these ignorant thug types won't let a debate happen. What's probably going to happen is we'll get a skeleton bill, a crummy bill. I don't think they should pass anything until it's a decent bill. Obama and the democrats should ride out the mobs. Let them yell until they're blue in the face, but keep working on it if it takes all of next year.

Health Care Town Hall Mobs Turn Violent

People ought to be ashamed of themselves. What a bunch of low lifes. Republican leadership needs to be speaking out, taming their people, not inciting violence. But they never spoke out against the racist birthers, so I imagine the violence at these meetings will get worse before it gets better.
Apparently, representative Kathy Castor and other democrats will be holding the next town hall by phone. They ought to just do online town halls.
AFL-CIO to the rescue and White House advice to democrats:
Also Thursday, the AFL-CIO announced plans to mobilize labor activists to attend town hall meetings in 50 congressional districts this month to counter the conservative protesters.

White House aides David Axelrod and Jim Messina traveled to the Capitol for their presentation to Democratic senators. Senators saw videos of disruptions at events held by House members, and were told to organize their events more carefully as well as work with labor unions and other friendly groups to generate enthusiasm.

They also were urged to use these events to stress insurance reforms such as a limit on out-of-pocket expenses for those covered by insurance, a ban on coverage cancellation for the seriously ill and protections for small businesses.

Messina, the deputy White House chief of staff, also said any advertising attack would be met with a bigger response, these officials said. MSNBC