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 told her that there were two plans available – that you could choose whether you wanted to have abortions included in your plan or not. But that wasn’t the question, was it? So the answer, I guess, is “yes” – taxpayers will be forced to pay for other people’s abortions.
The next question was about the single-payer option. The voter asked Specter if he’d vote for the single-payer option – Specter said that “no” he wouldn’t vote for the health care bill if the single payer option was part of the plan. Then he turned around and said he’d work hard to keep the single payer option “on the table”.
He says that according to the Hyde Amendment, public money cannot be used for abortion, and that he’ll never vote for anything that raises the national deficit. So you tell me how he’ll vote. His defense is that there’s no bill in the Senate right now so he can’t tell us whether he’ll vote for the bill or not. So if he doesn’t read it, I guess he won’t for it.
Here’s a link to the live video
Added: The whole townhall meeting was pretty civil except at the end when one guy got upset because he didn’t get an opportunity to speak. So what part of the hour-long meeting got highlighted on RealClearPolitics and Drudge? The first few minutes of this video;
The one guy who was upset gets the headline “Specter shouted down over health care”. Even though the rest of the questioners and the crowd was civil, the one loudmouth gets the news.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Health Care debate, Politics
Congressman Steve Cohen (D)from Memphis was interviewed last night after a Town Hall meeting. Thank heavens he’s not MY Congressman. He said that abortion is NOT in the bill. He said that the members of Congress WILL fall under the SAME health care plan if voted in. He said, “there is no euthanasia in the bill.” WTF? I mean I KNOW what he’s eluding to but did he REALLY say that and say it that way?
And, of course, he had to comment about the unruly, loud and uneducated people from the right. About how the people from the right were “organized” to come to the event just to cause disruptions. Never ends does it?
He said a lot of other things to but…for some reason his words just stopped registering.
I thought Specter handled the town hall very well. The questions were tough and the sentiment of the crowd obvious, but he hung in there and gave his bullet points.
I’ll give him this: he was ballsy enough to have it broadcast live on Fox News. (That or he was calculating that the crowd knew it was live and it would force them to be on their best behavior even if the dude didn’t deserve it…now that I think about it, that’s probably exactly it…what a jerk.)