Watching Harry Taylor address Bush prooves one thing:

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

Bush is a complete dick.

I have never seen such a complete waste of skin and humanity since I saw the way this P.O.S. reacted to the questions in a controlled crowd.

With a 36% approval rating, the audience should have been more cheers for Harry than jeers.

The motherfuckers are too damn cocky for my tastes.

[grytpype]

1. what the frig are you talking about?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

3. LOL... Outta my ass... Name corrected and apologies to Harry.

[sce56]

2. Harry Is Also a Legit member of MoveOn.org

Last month, Operation Democracy volunteers organized over 100 events like this one to oppose the reverse Robin Hood budget—helping to score a major victory last night. Harry Taylor of Charlotte, NC, a MoveOn member and Operation Democracy leader, confronts President Bush at a town hall meeting

If you're not part of Operation Democracy yet, you can join online at http://political.moveon.org/opdem/?id=7281-6860481-3RO2wgNzY_7ij3_NI18QDA&t=2

Dear MoveOn member,

Together, we work hard to help real Americans change the way things work in Washington. And with the folks that are currently in power, it's an uphill battle. So it's gratifying when it happens—and this week, it happened twice.

First, there's the budget. For weeks, we've been working to stop the Republicans' reverse-Robin Hood budget. On Wednesday, John Boehner (Tom DeLay's replacement in the House) vowed he would force it through.1 But last night, after even more members of his own party told him they were jumping ship, he threw in the towel and cancelled the vote. We woke up to read one of those headlines you love to see in the Washington Post, "GOP Budget Talks Collapse in the House".2

This was a come-from-behind victory for vital health care, education, and family services that millions of Americans depend on every day. So how did it happen? Simply put, unrelenting pressure from the grassroots proved stronger than the combined forces of corporate lobbyists, Republican leaders and the White House—and MoveOn members played a major role. In the last 3 weeks alone, you:

Organized 106 local media events at key congressional offices
Made over 8,000 phone calls to Congress in just 72 hours
Wrote over 10,000 personal letters to "swing vote" representatives
Mailed over 15,000 personal letters to fellow voters in a few critical districts—asking those voters to speak up on this vital issue
The budget event in Charlotte, North Carolina was led by a small business owner named Harry Taylor. Harry's a leader of his local "Operation Democracy" team. Operation Democracy is MoveOn's network of committed members who organize events to ensure that Congress and the media pay attention to what local folks have to say —but Harry took it to the next level.

As you know, President Bush often holds "town hall" events where he takes questions from a hand picked crowd of "real people." Yesterday one of the people was, well, real.

In a hostile room, with the attention of the national media focused on him, here's what Harry Taylor stood up and said to the President of the United States:

HARRY TAYLOR: You never stop talking about freedom, and I appreciate that. But while I listen to you talk about freedom, I see you assert your right to tap my telephone, to arrest me and hold me without charges, to try to preclude me from breathing clean air and drinking clean water and eating safe food. If I were a woman, you'd like to restrict my opportunity to make a choice and decision about whether I can abort a pregnancy on my own behalf. You are—

PRESIDENT BUSH: I'm not your favorite guy. Go ahead. (Laughter and applause.) Go on, what's your question?

HARRY TAYLOR: Okay, I don't have a question. What I wanted to say to you is that I—in my lifetime, I have never felt more ashamed of, nor more frightened by my leadership in Washington, including the presidency, by the Senate, and—

AUDIENCE MEMBERS: Booo!

PRESIDENT BUSH: No, wait a sec—let him speak.

HARRY TAYLOR: And I would hope—I feel like despite your rhetoric, that compassion and common sense have been left far behind during your administration, and I would hope from time to time that you have the humility and the grace to be ashamed of yourself inside yourself. And I also want to say I really appreciate the courtesy of allowing me to speak what I'm saying to you right now. That is part of what this country is about.

When we saw this story on the news, we checked to see if Harry was a MoveOn member. That's when we found out he was also the leader of an Operation Democracy team in Charlotte.

This is what MoveOn is all about—millions of us working together to bring the basic progressive values of fairness and decency back into American politics. Sometimes we make waves by the thousands, and sometimes we do it one at a time. But no matter what, we're all in this together.

If you're not already part of the Operation Democracy network, we'd love you to join the team. You can sign up online at:

http://political.moveon.org/opdem/?id=7281-6860481-3RO2wgNzY_7ij3_NI18QDA&t=3

Thanks, as always, for all that you do.

Ben, Nita, Natalie, Matt, Micayla, Marika, Justin, Tanya, Roy, Jennifer, Laura, Carrie, Joan, Rosalyn, Eli, Wes, Adam, and Tom—the Whole MoveOn.org Political Action Team

P.S. If you want to say thanks to Harry yourself, just go to http://thankyouharrytaylor.org

Sources:

1. "Boehner Says Budget Will Reach Floor This Week," Roll Call, April 5, 2006
http://political.moveon.org/boehner.html?id=7281-6860481-3RO2wgNzY_7ij3_NI18QDA&t=4

2. "GOP Budget Talks Collapse in the House," Washington Post, April 7, 2006
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=1624

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[Marr]

4. How about that part where Mr. Taylor mentions

Bush's insistence that he can "imprison me indefinitely without charges" and Bush says, "yep-". What a dick.

[benny05]

5. Earlier Comment today

Roses for Harry Taylor; banana peels for *

:kick:

[colorado thinker]

6. Even though I was cheering for Harry, I couldn't watch

the entire thing. Everytime I see Bush on the tube, I run for the Maalox. I stand there screaming at the tv "You ass.... you idiot, you f..king idiot ass...." It's not good for my stomach or my Karma.