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[...] for Single-Payer Health Care White House to Democrats: 'Punch back twice as hard' Liberal groups launch town hall counteroffensive Their agenda doesn't appear to be going as smoothly as planned Organizing The [...]

[...] say NO and nothing we do or say can stop or will stop them from shouting or being disruptive. But  liberal groups have now started to organize their own shouting groups too counteract this opposition. So what will we achieve in the end? A [...]

When they say "I haven't read the bill yet," that's just an evasion.

Hold their feet to the fire, folks. The party's just begun.

Wait a minute....I forgot.....republicans were in charge and ran everything for 8 years....while Newt shut down congress to prevent any valid discussions with democrats.....oops........

And what's this about a website that if you disagree with the Healthcare Bill, you are snitched on and put on a list? Will there be threats? What is going on?

lots of insurance agents in this mob. christian mafia mob strikes again.

The White House web site is encouraging the public to send them any information about health care that is fishy. I sent them the health care bill.

It's very sad when the President, his Administration and Democrat leaders mock the citizens. I dont care what side you are on. I've never seen anything like this before. Where is all the unifying?

americans really need to get together on this one, dnc is going to push this, so we need to continue to fight this health bill, politicians are not going to listen to what the americans want, be cause they dont care,go to all town hall meetings as possible,and yell,yell, congress needs to be kicked out of office

Obama and crew are starting to sound more and more like Chavez and his Venezuelan cronies. The dems had no issues being disruptive and protesting everything the past 8 years, but now that they are in power, if you do not agree with them, they take issue. Give me a break, the dems are the ones spreading the conspiracy theory that the republicans are purposefully disrupting these town halls. Don;t they realize that people just don't like the healthcare "reform" and are speaking up loudly because they aren't heard otherwise? Whatever happened to "liberal" ideas and thinking. They are supposed to be more tolerant of dissenting opinions, but instead are the ones who try to suppress opposing views. Love it. Also, why is it the dems are always the ones on these comment sections name calling and acting like children??? Don't believe me...go through and read the comments. 90% of the vile comments are by dems/liberals.

"Censorship because they don't want to hear that they're wrong?"

It's not censorship to expect people to behave themselves, wait their turn, and act in a respectful manner to everyone else there, including the representative holding the meeting. Clearly, that is not what is happening though based on the many clips shown all over the tv. The right to free speech does not include the right to shout, wave your fist in the air and disrupt public gatherings. Moreover, these idiots are shouting the exact same crap in MA as they are in MI and CA. It couldn't be more obvious that they're nothing more than GOPer mouthpieces regurgitating the errant flatulence that escaped Lilmbaugh's mouth and was promptly disseminated to the GOPer base to fuel their ideological vomit.

How are the Republicans that disrupt townhall meetings different than Hitler's brown shirts? Aren't these the same people the RNC bused into Florida to force election workers to stop counting votes? They have attacked Obama from the start and never stopped, like they did to Bill Clinton. Should we start treating Republicans as traitors?

we are getting a public option.

I want to know if all these protesters that are disrupting meetings because the oppose government health care would deny themselves or give up their medicare/medicaid????

This broken system is bankrupting us and forcing too many into no insurance situations. Who pays for their health care??? YOU DO.

Most logical people realize this grave situation. Only those being paid and bussed by the insurance, pharmaceutical and medical companies are crying foul.

Even in Thomas Jefferson's day government health care was an issue. Here's what he said: "If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny. "

Obama ought to dress his goons in Brown Shirts so we Americans can recognize them for what they are.

Quality Improvement committees have been in existence for 10 years now. these Committees follow patient care by tracking patient records for constant and continuous improvement. So don't try and scare others into believing patients records would somehow not be confidential. Patient records are extremely confidential . Even more so than Corporate records sold to health Insurance Industries. Yet as republicans......you can't mention it......can you ?????

Gee, what a stretch for Dems. They have been doing stuff like this for years. Lib monkeys are just mad because they are getting a taste of their own medicine...

Interesting what gets Americans to pay attention to what their government is doing. A 4 trillion dollar deficit. Higher taxes. The administration calling on people to turn each other in for speaking against the government. Civil discourse and public gatherings restricted.
Oops. That last one hasn't happened yet.

Please, whether you agree or disagree with the Obama admiinistration, PLEASE, keep your discussions civil!

bring it on Republican Party!! you will lose we need public health care the live you are saving maybe your own

Well, knowing how Liberal are such loud mouths, I am sure the opposition does not stand a chance... I would suggest that the opposition just yell "BOO" and watch the Libs run away...

Since the New GOP is not interested in the FACTS or a DEBATE, it's clear that what they are 'afraid' of is not healthcare reform, socialized medicine, a birth certificate, or bigger government, but the fact that the vast majority of rational, thinking, educated Americans, reject the lies, deceptions, hate and fear mongering. which is all that the GOP offers.

The more they purposefully disrupt congressional town hall meetings on healthcare reform that over 75% of Americans are asking for, the more Americans(Democrat, Independent, Respectful Republicans) and the rest of the world, move closer to Obama and his policies, and away from the anything GOP.

"Liberal groups are sending supporters detailed instructions on strategies to counter what they call organized disruptions of congressional town halls"

This is the Lefts problem. They are sending groups and paying them to counter the right. The People, Conservatives and Democrats are showing up as INDIVIDUALS to ask questions and make their opinions known.

Should we be surprised? No, and now they want to colect your anme too..................

So the liberals are bringing in their NORMAL RENT-A-MOBS.

Page 58 of the bill states that the government will be able to access YOUR bank and savings accounts in order to extract YOUR money in order to ensure that YOU are paying your fair share of the hospital bill.

Come on people READ THE BILL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What do we have to do to IMPEACH our representatives that don't represent the people???

And I'll be ALL too happy to pass 'em a "kleenex" to wipe the tears away......... : )

President Obama was elected MAINLY on his promise of Health-Care reform. Americans are not going to let disgruntled racists and their hateful jealous selfish dirty maneuvers keep America from having the progress it needs and has seen the promise of on Health Care. The Repuglican-instigated astro-turf crowd may yell, boo and disrupt to their selfish little hearts desire but they won't stop genuine Americans who know what America really needs to progress and become united in spite of the dirty tactics of the Party of NOOOOOO!

A few questions for the republican/Insurance oppostion group of fear mongers.

Where does the reform being discussed in DC say, "seniors will be killed"?

Where does it state, that this will be "universal health care"?

Where does it say , you can not keep your own plan?

Where does does it say you can not keep your doctor?

Nothing like a few facts to refute your shrill, manufactered, willfully uninformed outrage.

Reading the libs posting here I think it's pretty obvious that any smart, rational person will never be able to converse with them. They are so hopped up on Obama-aide they can't see the truth if it's right in front of their faces. They've become full of the lies Obama, Pelosi, the unions, MoveOn, MSNBC, you name it have spewed out. They believe that government is going to take care of everything and they don't have to pay anything for it.

Anyone who is confronted by these lib mobs better realize this. They will not talk facts. They wil lyell, scream, falsely accuse, and lie. And then they will report back to their handlers that you are being un-American.

Welcome to the Obamanation! Orwell would be proud.

No person from the DNC would try to shut you down. Shut down means "shouting" as you interrupt a person who's answering your question after you've already spoken. democrats aren't doing this in health care talks....but your party of Bozo's representing the Health Insurance industry are...........

I sense a lot of smelly hippies and hairy women will be showing up.. Go libs!

You want a Civil War, Liberals? Fine. I'm glad I'm on the side with the NRA and military spending.

So thelefts answer to these evil hatefull nazi thugs who dare disagree with the health care plan that no one really knows about is to send in the "Organized" patrolls to "CONTROLL" the events?

This paragraph is particularly interesting:

"The instructions also offer "precautions to make sure that you can keep meetings you organize under control." Those guidelines include making sure attendees are "easily identifiable"; establishing a strictly-controlled question-asking protocol; and banning and collecting any signs and leaflets that they have not issued themselves."

Here come the Brown shirts and the Union thugs to controll the crowds.

Scary stuff. Nov. 2010 can't come fast enough.

The Commissioner collecting data for Quality Improvement. If you were educated about the Health care Industry, you'd learn there are many committees for QI to constantly improve treatment for patients by tracking records. it's already been going on for 10 years.....hello ?????

"And this is different from what they claim the GOP is doing how?"

The DNC isn't telling people to be disruptive and hijack the meetings, but the RNC is.

Thanks to CNN Rick Sanchez

Bring the truth about CONSERVATIVES FOR PATIENTS' RIGHTS

Rick scott couldn’t answer?

Conservatives for Patients' Rights misleading us on health care reform

Thanks to CNN

Uh oh! Granny and grandpa is now a MOB, What do you think granny and grandpa can do? Bite democrats with dentures? I know they'll beat these democrat senators and congressmen with their walking stick, grandma will hit them right upside the head with her handbag.

Yes! Granny and grandpa are MOBS, shame on them for standing up for their fellow citizens against socialize medicine.

Wait, I thought Democrats were against "mobs"? Oh, wait, they're Democrats. I keep forgeting that Democrat = Hypocrite.

I had to look on Fox News of all places to learn that one of the organizers of these so called conservative "protests" is none other than Rick Scott, a former CEO of a large for-profit hospital group whose company had to pay the government at 1.7 billion dollar fine for fraud. He has invested 5 million dollars of his own money to fight reform. Further, the campaign is being led by CRC Public Relations, the same sleazebag group behind the Swift Boat ads against John Kerry. This is life or death for many Americans – I say we fight against these fear mongers, bigots and self serving "protesters" with everything we've got.

The rethugs are hipocrites.
First they mock the dems for being woozies and then when they stand up for themselves suddenly they are un-American neo-nazis.
Excuse me but neo-nazis are right wing extremists not socialist liberals you morons...

The GOP and the insurance industry lobby have so much blood money at stake and such disdain for the american people, that they would pit one group against another in order maintain profits over affordable and accesible health care.

Where is the republican plan ? Oh, they do not have one do they? If they do it doesn't do anything but ensure continued record profits for leaving americans in the lurch.

These folks are down right evil.

yeah....I'd like to see some liberal try to shut me down if I wanted to speak at a townhall....Censorship because they don't want to hear that they're wrong? They'll be some violence for sure if the DNC is sending out such anti-American "instructions..." The DNC is treading on thin ice with American citizens, true Americans....they should tread lightly...

I'm half expecting to see a mosh pit at one of these town hall meetings... has anyone here actually READ the bill? I have. Here is one section that bothered me:

"(c) DATA COLLECTION.—The Commissioner shall collect data for purposes of carrying out the Commissioner’s duties, including for purposes of promoting quality and value, protecting consumers, and addressing disparities in health and health care and may share such data with the Secretary of Health and Human Services."

So one man will have full access to our medical records so long as it is to help him carry out his "duties." Does anyone here know how well the term "probable cause" worked out?

I'm sorry but I don't want the government being able to intrude on my privacy like that and I intend to make that quite clear to Sen. Frank Lautenberg here in Jersey.

GAME ON REPUBS, OBama is taking you guys down, way way way down. Your lies will no longer disturb our thirst for a public option and for the last time it is not government run but government funded you republican hypocrites.

People who are against this health care plan confuse me. They say they want things to change, they say they want more restrictions and reform, but in the same breathe they yell at democrats for not letting the free market handle health care. When I watch the videos of these town halls it makes me so angry. Instead of just yelling out stupid stuff like you don't want government run health care (Medicaid, Medicare, etc) you should make an actually argument with some meaning behind it. EX: I think a public option would not only give an affordable health care plan to those who can't afford one now, but it would also give insurance companies competition and therefore force them to lower their prices. That is what an intelligent argument sounds like, simply saying you are for or against something without any real reasoning behind what you are saying is part of the reason why nothing can ever get done.

I think people need to chill out, Healthcare Reform is going to happen. President Obama is doing a great job inspite of the Republican daily attacks on his character and the total disrespect for the office of the Presidency.

I have never heard any president getting disrespected the way people like, Rush, Hannity, Beck and others like them have been towards Mr. Obama. How Mr. Beck can say with a straight face that the president is a racist and hates white people is criminal. I guess he forgot the man is 1/2 white,ie his mother, how stupid can you be on national tv. No matter what, he is our president for now, how about trying to work with him, or just keep winning for the next three years.

The discussion of health care reform is too important to be marginalized by the GOP/Insurance bullies and reactionaries.
The same folks being directed to disrupt the town hall meetings are the same folks the GOP/Insurance machine will turn on, once they have used these idiots to get the reform blocked.

How stupid have americans become !???!

The more you look at this, you start to see that this is not just republicans. I'm happy to see so many Americans standing up and getting involved. The far left and right have run this country too long. I hope these town hall meetings continue, and the average Americans keep standing up and let's start holding these politicians responsible!

Ironically, most of the Republicans without health care are fighting for the crowd that wants to keep them without coverage. Way to go, Rush!!!

Unions gave more than $60 million(SEIU) to Obama's campaign.

Not surprising why they are deathly afraid to see his healthcare
bill fail.

Oh, the misinformed who are listening to Republicans who are doing the dirty work for insurance company lobbyist. Don't be used, get paid like the insurance lobbyist are paying Republicans. Stop being used.

Typical. Send in the union goons to intimidate people from letting their representatives know what they think.

You are going to look great roughing up all those senior citizens worried about their health care.

What are we becoming? One group pitted against another group. I long for the America of Reagan and Teddy Roosevelt. We are becoming very sick people hurling insults towards one another...The US Congress is the playground of immature adults who have only on goal: Self

Hard to believe Democrats can not fanthom the Idea of other Democrats disgreeing with them.How can Congressional politicans defend a health care bill when they do not know what is in it? .
..Town Halls get disruptive at times,Oh unless they are scripted as Obama's are. Saw one town meeting when all they were doing was asking the congressman to read the bill.When the bill is still in the House,and not in final draft,with 100 changes already,There is no way for the Democrats to know what is in it.
Obama has said he has not read it,so how can he say it will do this and not do that?

Just cause a bigger distraction and you wont have to answer any question the people have.

Heck, who doesn't want to pay all they can "afford" for imaginary health care?

Go liberals! Show us what mob action, organized astro-turf protests REALLY look like! Dig up those fringe wackos and make it interesting! We should hopefully see some great evidence for mental health care reform now!

I will say good for them: You fight fire with fire!!!!

WE WANT HEALTHCARE REFORM NOW!!!!

People are being terrified by the right-winged conservative groups that are determined to destroy universal health care. I'm sure these groups are owned by the insurance companies. I don't know what it will take to make people understand that our current health system needs to be overhalued immediately. Please Mr. Obama, do not listen to these extremist groups. Do what is right for our country. Every single person I have talked to from other countries would not trade their health care for ours. Our health care is a disgrace! These health insurance companies will not be satisfied until they've bled us all dry. Don't let that happen. Thank You.

HCAN – the massive umbrella organization that represents the lobbying effort on behalf of major progressive groups and unions like MoveOn, the NAACP, and the SEIU – has given its supporters instructions on their own set of defensive town hall tactics.

See...That's how you lobby! Go massive or go home! These guys know how to disrupt an event! They are professionals at it.

It's ok for these guys to disrupt everything from traffic to town halls, but don't let anyone speak out. We only want proffesional mobs at these events.

It's time to counter these crazed growds sent by the Repubs and the insurance companies.

Sad that the Rethuglican's cannot have a peaceful debate. Nobody is saying that Republican's cannot protest or dissagree with anything! What is offensive is when people...Republican, Democratic, Independent...go to these meetings and cannot learn from them due to a few people who are rudely acting out! Heck, a Democratic protester at a McCain event was tased just by speaking out! Nobody in these debates want to squelch those from coming to the table with their concerns...but when people start shouting out over others – where is the fairness in that?

Interestingly RedState's critical rebuke seeths of lack of intelligence – using childish words such as "goons" or "Obamacare". Pathetic.

I mean this is downright disgusting and embarrassing. Let people have their say. Will you Obamabots wake up and see what kind of man he really is??? It's still a democracy!

Your report did not go deep enough into the sponsors and the people who are behind recessrally.com
You need to expose these people, their ties to Big Pharma, Health insurance companies and lobbyists and subsequently why they have organized these mobs to disrupt town hall meetings.
BTW, They are referred to as 'angry mobs' because that is what they look like. I know you would like to pretend that this is some sort of grass roots movement, but everybody could tell this was an organized mob from the very first moment we saw them.
We, the People have learned valuable lessons from the Bush admin. We, The People were asleep, we were not paying attention before. We are now and we know what's real, these mobs disrupting town hall meetings, posing as constituents, posing as a grass roots movement are not real.
If they were real, if they were serious, they would be intelligent and rational. These people most certainly are not.

Hanging effigies, lies, insurance lobbyists, direct Republican Party ties, hypocritical with their socialized Medicare, uncivilized, rude, fringe elements. Expose the fraud and evil from these Republicans.

Americans have a right to know the truth behind these deplorable tactics against our health care reforms in order to have a constructive and honest discussion.

So-called bluedog Democrats are under great pressure from
Speaker Pelosi to vote yes to whatever healthcare the Obama
White House is promoting. Her tactics are working, especially
promises lots of $$$ from Hollywood bigwigs when 2010 rolls
around. Obamacare is coming...whether you like it or not...
including funding abortions and illegal aliens.

Hmmmmmmm......I guess if these were people from ACORN, NAACP, RAINBOW PUSH, CODE PINK, UNION GROUPS, Health Care for America Now and Organizing for America it would be OK.....what is wrong with this picture?

Thanks, repubicans, for pioneering yet another dimension of dirty politicking.

Let's see, you had Watergate, Lee Atwater, Swift boating, cracking and packing, the Texas gerrymandering, the underhanded presidential election stealing, the neocon "take no prisoners-we don't need you" approach to legislative conduct and bipartisanship, to Karl Rove and the fake self-serving "news" reports fed to news outlets, and finally the "kill him" hate fests disguised as presidential campaign rallies.

You're definitely on a creative roll.

It doesn't matter who organized or who didn't organize the opprotunity for people to attend the town hall meetings to oppose or to support the Obama Health Care Reform Plan. What matters is that people are participating. True, people need to be more respectful and allow the representatives to speak and answer questions – but people are uncertain, suffering and just wanting the truth. I read the bill and it is scary and it does state that there will be an unelected Board that will be deciding what type of health care people will get or not get – it does state that business will have the option to use the public health care option and therefore ultimately force people to let their private plan go. Please understand that as Americans we have the right to protect our freedoms and sometimes we have to yell and scream to be heard.

So we don't tolerate disruption and need to disrupt those who are disrupting in the wrong way? Let's all put on brown shirts so we can recognize each other while we beat the dog out of those senile old folks. Worked well for Adolph.

I can't understand why you are saying the R's are "running the Congressmen away from their town hall meetings" when in fact, they should be staying the course and explaining their position and WHY in the world they think this health plan is a good idea.
Are the politicians "afraid" they might not have a good answer?
Can you actually prove these are ALL Republicans? No, you can't.

OK so we know the administration funded organizations and the Union funded organizations that are "counter protesting", and the DNC keeps claiming that the protesters are not real grassroots citizens but members of organizations aa well. So who are the well organized, well funded, groups of people that keep showing up to "disrupt" the congresspeople during their dog and pony shows? What organized groups do the sinister "conservative" protesters belong to?

Great...now we'll see ACORN thugs and black panthes with billy clubs blocking the doors to town hall meetings. Watch out.... if you post any anti healthcare remarks on here I'll report you to the white house!

What we need is the bill posted online so we can read it. There's so much lying going on now I don't believe anything I hear about health care reform.

Hey Democrats, explain this to me. It was perfectly in your right, and i agree, to raise you know what during the Bush years about the war and everything else you disliked about him and the Republicans but you don't like it when it is returned to you. People don't like the health care plan, the runaway federal spending and the control the federal government wants to take on the private sector. This appears to be the classic: "do as i say but not as i do"!

The health care debate should be a battle of ideas and not one for hecklers or disruptions.Some of us choose to come to The US to see great debates within the corners of the gate keepers of "DEMOCRACY".Dissapointment ! Dissapointment !

As a devout evangelical Christian, I always ask myself, "What would Jesus want?" I truly believe that Jesus would NOT want 47,000,000 Americans without health care. I don't think Jesus would want ANYONE to be without health care in the entire world.

How do we fix this problem and honor Christ?

Now the libs are going to show everyone how a mob backed by a lying political party operates.

The libs are just mad because intelligent people are speaking up for something that is so blatantly wrong.

Why is it that Obama wants to push (his pathetic version of) healthcare through in 3 weeks, yet took 6 months for him to pick a dog? Guess that means he values his dog more than he does the American people.

But go ahead libs. Spew you talking-points of lies, build up your 'fishy' list of people. We (at least the non-libs) are too smart to fall for your lies. You are being exposed for what you truly are.

Do what you want liberal groups, but it won't do any good. These town hall meetings are both Republicans and Democrats that are fed up. In other words, it's the American people. My sister, brother-in-law and my parents are die hard Democrats and they went to their town hall meeting. They, like everyone else has had it with this administration and it's lies.

"death threats directed at lawmakers who are current or prospective backers of the president's plan."

This is what the republican party has become. I just changed my registration yesterday. Until I see republicans CONDEMN this childish behavior, I refuse to vote for a single one of them. This is too much. I'm still conservative, but I'm an adult first, and I absolutely REFUSE to vote for another republican unless they aggressively put an end to such pathetic antics and tactics. To not confront it and put an end to it, is to condone it. I can not blame the Liberal groups for fighting back against such terrorists.

GROW UP or end up like the democrats threaten, EXTINCT!

These whackos are screwing themselves!!! Republic/Democrat/Independent – it doesn't matter – we are PEOPLE. We want our country to work for us – not the SPEECHMAKER/Do NOTHING camera hog. Obomba will never get re-elected – will be surprised if he lasts another year!!!!!

What are you liberal going to do? Cry “victim”!

this should be funny
they better follow Boxer's dress code lol
Sorry guys I think the average American is new to this whole
protesting thing, but I will put money on them.
See all the average folks Sept 12,2009 in Washington DC

I saw the tape on the news last night of the man who is a registered democrat wearing a baseball hat who made a lot of sense in that if the President took 6 months to pick out just the right dog for his daughters, why the mad rush to pass a health care bill that will not benefit everyone. What's the rush was his question. Why is that considered mob mentality?

I think the administration just can't believe that the American people are not stupid and are paying attention to the growing deficits and the possibility of increased taxes. That doesn't sit well so they are expressing their concerns at these "town hall" meetings.

Why are the dems making out the repubs to be the bad guys and putting plants in the crowds. I don't believe this is true based on the questions that these ones have asked. These are questions I have asked and tonight when CNN reveals the health care grade as well as the economy grade of the administration, we will see the majority are not giving his policies the high marks anymore!

This is too good to be true. Republicans have been confronting their elected officials demanding answers to relevant questions and have been accused of being tools of lobbyists. Liberal activitst groups (i.e. lobbyists) have rallied their professional protesters to confront Republicans who are voicing their concerns to their elected officials. Who is guilty of inciting riots here? Is it the citizens demanding answers or the shock troopers being moblized to confront them?

The greedy will spend millions to save billions. America better realize that the health care people do not want change. That means they lose money and we get better coverage. Do you understand why they are sending goons to these town hall meetings. They are sending people more stupid than Joe the Plumber if that is possible.

Obama needs to step down!

The hipocracy is that the Liberal Groups have been disruptive to all Republican speakers from day one. The Conservative Groups have for the most part, been respectful. The problem in this case is that the people are not having a choice, having a Healthcare Policy rammed down their throat, and no one on either sides knows what's even in the bill. Not to mention our Congressman have come right out and said they will use a judgment call because they don't have the time or will not take the time to even read what's in such an important bill. Big differences in what the Republicans are being vocal on vs. what Democrats are vocal on.

It is so interesting that conservatives who consider themselves "patriotic" are now joining in a mob effort to deny others freedom of speech. I guess to them, people are only free to speak if they agree with their point of view. When will poor and middle class conservatives wise up and realize that they are being used by the wealthy (and yes elitist) Sean Hannitys and Rush Limbaughs of the world. When will they learn to speak and work for their own best economic interests instead of promoting the interests of rich people who could care less about them.

So now we are encouraging people to get in each others face and start a fight?

Will these organizations be taking responsibility when a full blown riot break out and an innocent bystander gets hurt?

I was planning to attend a health care meeting being held in our city next week and support the President and healthcare.

However, with these new instructions coming out.....the last thing I want to do is be in the middle of a full blown riot.

Additionally if anyone gets hurt I hope criminal charges are brought up against those who are promoting violence and rioting.

That noise you hear is the founding fathers spinning in their graves.

What ever happened to rational discourse? Come America grow up and think!

If you want to see how a civilized country conducts town meeting look a the picture and article in today's NY Times showing Japanese men an women leaving their shoes at the doorway of the meeting room, and quietly sitting on the floor waiting to have the exchange with their representative.

I guess American troops after World War II taught Japan a better brand of democracy than we conduct in our own intolerant country.

Too bad for America.

Japan has been around for thousands of years, and the US only 200.

Maybe some day we will learn to be civil to each other, but I doubt it.

Sounds like a low grade and non-violent civil war.

So now we see an organized liberal offensive against a rather unorganized by vocal group who dare to question the current administrations' policies.

Liberals and dems are increasingly intollerant.

Thank goodness! Finally, Democrats willing to step up and fight fire with fire. I am so proud to be a member of the Democratic party! Where do I sign up to be a part of the teams going out?! It is sad that the other side has created a situation where adult discussion and rational conversation is no longer a possibility, but, let's end this technique of theirs and see if we can help restore civility to politcal discourse. Maybe, just maybe, the media will promote that concept. Oh yeah, I forgot, the media is basically taking cues from the Jerry Springer show these days. Thanks CNN!

In the immortal words (and book) of Jack Cafferty: "It's getting ugly out there"!

This is way out of control this is a recipe for disaster.

Waste of time since these people are democrats voicing their opposition to their own party. Republicans have little, if anything to do with this. I was at my democratic congressman's gathering in a New York City precinct over the weekend. Ninety-nine percent of the people there were democrats and were not pleased with the responses our congressman was giving us on health care. Many retorted that they would make it their mission to unseat him if he votes for this legislation.

Good. A town hall meeting should afford both sides a chance to ask questions and to speak. When one side tries to terrorize and intimidate the other side into silence or to sabatoge, then fix it. Hats off to the unions. People make fun of unions, but if they want to see a workforce without a union, check out the sweatshops of Mumbai, Taiwan, and China.

DNC sending in the Brown Shirts.....................can the SS be far behind??

It's very easy. Let these people stand outside and chant all they want But check the IDs outside the door. These town halls for specific congressmen should be for district member's only! Not for bussed-in hate radio mouth pieces.

Who should check the ID's? Why YOU of course!! GET INVOLVED!!!

And what happens if 'something' happens? People of opposing views in an enclosed space tend to get riled up and try to push each other's buttons. I'm willing to bet that by the end of this August recess that at least three townhall meetings have scuffles.

Is it so hard for leftie/liberals to accept that not everyone follows their beliefs? Why is it that those who preach 'tolerance for all' can't tolerate anyone who believes differently?

Last time I checked this was still a country where you could speak your mind. Just no threatening anyone. That's a sign of weakness and lack of class.

And this is different from what they claim the GOP is doing how?

Thugs
Mob
Rabble-rousers
Fanatics
Hooligans

The same terms used by the DNC and the White House to describe some attendees of recent town hall meetings were once used to describe my distant relatives who fought the British in the American Revolution. I dare say, at the same time, the ancestors of many on the Left were living on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, groveling under the boot of some tyrannical power. Evidently, having a dependency upon and being submissive to a central power authority is a family tradition for some in our country. I can assure you it is not a trait that runs in our family.

The DNC and the White House have no clue as to what they have just stirred up. I encourage them to continue with the derogatory rhetoric. We take their insults as compliments of the highest order.

We will find out who these paid shills for the industry are and where they live.

Obama is an extremely poor communicator.

He can't listen – he doesn't hear – he just dictates! He refuses to tolerate anything but his own voice!

Liberals are acting like cry-babies. They behaved much more "mob-like" durning the past 8 years. At least, the new protests are legitimate.

Please fellow democrats bring your wmd to those metings

If I were the congress people, I would send out fake town hall locations.