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| A First Hand View of a Raucous Town Hall Meeting |
| 2009-08-07 |
| ABC's Steven Portnoy reports: There were no lobbyist-funded buses in the parking lot of Mardela Middle and High School on Tuesday evening, and the hundreds of Eastern Maryland residents who packed the school's auditorium loudly refuted the notion that their anger over the Democrats' health care reform plans is "manufactured." "I went to school in this school," a man named Bob told me. "I don't see anyone in this room that isn't from Mardela Springs right now." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 The population's attention span is one thing, but the amount of pain they will be experiencing between now & the next election is quite another. Unless all those unemployed are back to work by then, fat chance of that happening. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-08-07 20:55 |
| #8 I feel that is the rush as well - the more people ya got hooked on government, the more likely they will vote democrat come '10, but ultimately '12. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2009-08-07 15:48 |
| #7 I fear that there's too much time between now and the 2010 elections. Too many folks will go 'back to sleep'. Timing is everything and the political masters on the left know full well why they're pushing stuff so fast. It has little to do with any 'reading the bill' stuff. It has everything to do with the general population's attention span. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2009-08-07 14:08 |
| #6 Hail Mooze! 0 Keeper of deh troofs. |
| Posted by: .5MT 2009-08-07 13:23 |
| #5 What Anonymoose said. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-08-07 13:20 |
| #4 Republicans are under no obligation to carry out anything the Democrats do, but they never, NEVER, repeal any of the Democrats programs. Why not? Right now, I want to see Republican congressmen standing up and saying, "If you elect a wide Republican majority in the next congress, we will THROW OUT everything being done right now! Cap and Trade will be REPEALED! Socialized medicine will be REPEALED! And all the other STUPID ideas that the Democrats put forth will be REPEALED!" |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-08-07 10:42 |
| #3 Everytime I see one opf these meeting I think maybe there is hope for us to change. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2009-08-07 09:12 |
| #2 A blue dog is a yellow dog holding it's breath. Screw all of washington DC. None of them are fixing anything especially demoncrats. F-all of democrats. |
| Posted by: newc 2009-08-07 04:38 |
| #1 a commenter on the Belmont's Club's article on the Obama Snitch Line said: When the new med-care comes on line if you are in their snitch list: You’ll get an End of Life Consultation. Being caring people, they want you to be aware of the palliative care Hospice can provide. And with the Chicago Tao of Politics - its likely true. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2009-08-07 00:15 |