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WaPo ignores real news

| August 14, 2009 | 2 Comments
WaPo ignores real news

Washington Post‘s Michael D. Shear and Anne E. Kornblut wrote this wonderful article about the joyful time President Obama had in Montana today. Apparently, the townhall meeting that they saw was all candy and rainbows for the President. The recounted all of the questions the President was asked. Well, they missed reporting on one – […]

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Townhall protests take their toll

| August 13, 2009 | 9 Comments
Townhall protests take their toll

Financial Times reports that some of the newly elected Democrats are beginning to waver on the health care proposal in Congress; Mr Kratovil, who was hanged in effigy by a healthcare protester at a town hall meeting in his state of Maryland, said he would have voted against legislation if it had come to a […]

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Think Congress isn’t listening?

| August 13, 2009 | 1 Comment
Think Congress isn’t listening?

Sheila Jackson Lee told the Houston Chronicle on Monday that she’s not avoiding her constitutents’ concerns; Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee assured a sometimes raucous crowd at a town hall forum Tuesday that she is listening to their concerns about health care reform legislation. At the same time, the Houston Democrat denied she had attempted to […]

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Scott’s office vandalized

| August 11, 2009 | 20 Comments
Scott’s office vandalized

I linked to this video Sunday wherein Congressman David Scott melted down because he didn’t believe there were any white doctors in his district;

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Specter’s townhall meeting

| August 11, 2009 | 3 Comments
Specter’s townhall meeting

In Lebanon, PA Arlen Specter is holding a standing-room-only townhall meeting that’s being broadcast on Fox News live. He’s an idiot. The first question from the audience was in reference to the abortion clause in the health care plan. Her question was whether the tax payers would be forced to to pay for abortions. Specter […]

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Falling poll numbers and corporate shills

| August 10, 2009 | 7 Comments
Falling poll numbers and corporate shills

So the White House and the rubber stamp Congress are out this weekend trying to paint the whole tea party movement as some kind of insurance industry plot to undermine the post-racial presidency. But the Washington Times notes this morning that with falling poll numbers, that’s a harder case to make; For more than two […]

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McCaskill constituent event canceled for “safety concerns”

| August 8, 2009 | 2 Comments
McCaskill constituent event canceled for “safety concerns”

1CavRVN11B sent me a link to St Louis Today in which they announced that a Claire McCaskill event was canceled there by the school which was to be the venue due to safety concerns; A day after a Russ Carnahan event led to the arrests of five participants and a reporter, University City High School […]

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Looking at liars

| August 7, 2009 | 13 Comments
Looking at liars

Kos has figured us all out. Those of us who don’t want to take any part in the Obama plan are a bunch of “insurance industry shills” so they made this commercial “Townhalls Gone Wild” in which they call us “cranks” and “nutjobs” because we have an opinion that’s not like theirs; I guess the […]

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