Teabaggers attempt to hijack public health care forum hosted by Sen. Claire McCaskill's office

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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Will the 'Tea Party' tantrums become a vehicle for right-wing thuggery?
By David Neiwert Wednesday Jul 29, 2009 3:00pm

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/will-tea-party-tantrums-become-vehic

We've already seen evidence, particularly from the last round on July 4, that the "Tea Party" movement was attracting a significant bloc of extremists of various stripes: conspiracy theorists (particularly Birthers), xenophobes, anti-government radicals, gun nuts. And they're not just filling the ranks -- they're taking leadership roles, particularly in speaking at their events.

When this bloc starts taking over, you have to start wondering where all this is going. Because you know it's not going to be a healthy direction.

Greta Van Susteren last night featured a segment on an incident in St. Louis in which the local teabaggers came out in force to "hijack" a public forum on health care hosted by Sen. Claire McCaskill's office. She and her guest, Dana Loesch, were eager to applaud the "hijacjking," but the whole thing was actually pretty disturbing.

A couple of things stood out: First, the pretense that "this isn't about political parties" is manifest nonsense. These events are about stopping Barack Obama, the newly elected president, from enacting the very policies he campaigned for and was indeed elected to enact.

Trying to pretend that it's anything else simply doesn't wash any longer. Anyone who can say with a straight face that they voted for Obama but oppose what he's doing with health care -- when in fact he openly and significantly campaigned on promises he would enact just this kind of program -- is a pretty good liar, but a liar nonetheless.

More disturbing, I thought, was the way the teabaggers used their numbers to shout down their opposition and generally intimidate the town-hall nature of the forum. What was supposed to have been an open discussion of the issues instead became a pushy shoutfest. That's not how democracy works. It's ugly when the left does it, and it's ugly when the right does it too.

[Parche]

1. greta vanbigmouth

:grr: :hi:

[PSzymeczek]

6. Didn't she used to be sane

a long time ago?

[stlsaxman]

2. this disgusts me.

greta vun cant.

[PatrynXX]

3. Gotta love people who protest against lowering taxes

that and they sure love a mouthful. I mean they can't have it both ways. They say fist bumping is a terrorist sign but don't have a clue was tea bagging means. o__O

That's the standard meaning of conservative. Stay the same. Living in the past. I suppose they still drive around in a GAY BUS. Think I still have that toy around. or maybe I don't. Gay used to mean happy. At some point these conservatives really well be the ... oh wait I think they are the past. Hopefully we'll forget about them.

[madamesilverspurs]

4. Yeeesh.

"...a pushy shoutfest. That's not how democracy works. It's ugly when the left does it, and it's ugly when the right does it too."

And right now Republicans have ownership of ugly.

[thread-bear]

5. Claire McCaskill

Claire is my Senator. The area in which I live is dominated by right-wing talk radio and they are very aggressive when she visits here. She pretty much holds her own against them and though they vehemently disagree with her,she earns a little respect from them for facing them. I'm worried that this health care bill is going to be so compromised,it will just raise costs and help insurance companies. If single-payer (which I support)is off the table,why not just lower the age of Medicare gradually until single-payer is achieved?

[rantormusing]

7. HA hA

the way she describes them calling the cops reminds me how corporate slag deals with protesters. I hope she liked how it felt.



Anyways, the question the lady in red asked was a good one i think. Not really a question, but it would be nice to see the congress critters have to be on the same plan as everyone else.

[Seldona]

8. They use public roads to get to their 'tax' protest? Idiots.

:rofl:

If these people don't want to pay their fair share, why not just pack it up and fucking leave? There aren't many who would miss them.