Left doesn’t like it’s own tactics

At Ace of Spades, you can see videos of Kathleen Sebelius and the Senate’s newest Democrat Arlen Specter getting shouted down at a Townhall meeting and Lloyd Doggett getting a dose of Tea Partiers at his own town hall meeting.

Well, Think Progress thinks they’ve found a “talking points memo” from Freedom Works that outlines ways to disrupt these townhall meetings. And they’re not happy about it. One commenter at Think Progress complained;

These are truly un-American people, afraid of change, afraid of improvements, and completely against helping ordinary people. It’s all about how much these Repubs can line their greedy pockets. This intimidation of duly elected persons, attempting to do their jobs & actually communicate with voters is truly disturbing & frightening.

I hope all Dems & in particular, the White House, has received this information.

And how is it that Gates is arrested, yet hanging a politician in effigy is simply ignored?

They’re pretty upset about it at Democratic Underground, too;

We bring in the tasers and the fine books and take care of these assholes. Yelling out and causing disruptions like this should get you fined and if it continues tased. I mean they weren’t afraid to shoot liberal students in college. I’m only talking about town hall meetings, if they want to chant let them go outside and chant away.

It’s as if the last eight years never happened, isn’t it? What made me laugh was one of the “talking points” was;

Artificially Inflate Your Numbers: “Spread out in the hall and try to be in the front half. The objective is to put the Rep on the defensive with your questions and follow-up. The Rep should be made to feel that a majority, and if not, a significant portion of at least the audience, opposes the socialist agenda of Washington.”

While I was reading the HuffPo article about the Sebelius/Specter incident, I found this description of the supporters of the healthcare plan;

There were people in the crowd wearing purple t-shirts with gold and white lettering that said “Health Care Now We Can’t Wait.”

Yeah, those people in the purple shirts were forced to be there by their SEIU union masters. That’s how the Left boosts their numbers at rallies – send in the unions.

Think Progress interviewed Dick Durbin (you know, the guy who called our troops at Guantanamo SS guards) called protests at townhall meetings “a sucker punch”.

But you know, I hope my colleagues won’t fall for a sucker-punch like this. These health insurance companies and people like them are trying to load these town halls for visual impact on television.

So, we need to have a much more balanced approach that really allows members of Congress to hear both sides of the story, rather than being sucker-punched or side-tracked by these types of tactics.

Yeah, we don’t want the Democrats sidetracked like the Left has sidetracked the war against terror. TSO writes; “the rank hypocrisy of this is phenomenal.”

Thanks to Claymore for the link.

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