[Cloud9]

It looks to me as though this is the beginning of the throw the rascals out movement.

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/aug/06 ... ews-metro/

[PrestonSturges]

Thanks for the link because it mentions Glenn beck and his 9-12ers. Becks advertisers are bailing, Newscorp is bleeding money. Boycotts are working.

[Cloud9]

"Sweeney of the AFL-CIO has announced he’ll be sending in union members to the meetings to counter health care’s critics.

Somehow that doesn’t sound like a peace initiative."


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 98540.html

[Maddog78]

Great, union thugs are going to show up.
Bring your brass knuckles and truncheons to the next town hall meeting. Fun for the whole family.

This should make for some good youtube vids.

[AlexdeLarge]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cloud9', '&')quot;Sweeney of the AFL-CIO has announced he’ll be sending in union members to the meetings to counter health care’s critics.

Somehow that doesn’t sound like a peace initiative."


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 98540.html

[Cloud9]

Wonder if Sweeny knows what happened to Ernst Rohm?

[AlexdeLarge]

Know Your Town Hall Mob Agitators!
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/08/know-your-town-hall-mob-agitators.html

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'G')reetings citizen! By now you may have heard scattered rumors of state and party officials encountering reactionary resistors at local health care reform information programs. Do not be alarmed, for our 5-year plan for citizen health proceeds without delay. Remain stalwart! The truth can be told at last, that these so-called "protests" are merely the desperate rear flank mob actions of dead-end bandits and saboteurs in the pay of enemy insurance agents.

Pay them no heed, for these outside agitators in no way represent any threat to our great patriotic push forward for increased citizen heathfulness! These well-dressed prep school gangsters of reaction seek only to frighten and demoralize and intimidate you, with their confusing "facts" and hob-nailed Sperry Topsiders. Unfortunately they are joined in conspiracy by a well-financed network of unlicensed blogs and talk radio traitors, who exaggerate their numbers and percolate disinformation -- even cleverly staged YouTube videos of an impostor President Obama saying "quotes"! Remain strong, citizen, for the day of their comeuppance is near! Patriotic spontaneous volunteers from MoveOn.org, Organizing For America, HCAN, SEIU, AFSCME, ACORN, NPR, and MSNBC have all pledged independent grassroots efforts to spread the word about the health-hating tricksters and their transparent astroturf agitation campaign!

[Livewire713]

Those nut jobs screaming at the town hall meetings are being sent there by the far right nut job birthers. Bring on the Union Boys!!

[Fishman]

Hey Live, if you want to see some
"Those nut jobs screaming at the town hall meetings" go to youtube and view the protests during the Bush years, the present town hall meetings are relatively rational people expressing their view in comparison. The Dems are depending on America's short memories, the e net seem to be their downfall.
Hey Preston, Beck's Fox news profits are up 50%, perhaps your data is a little off.

[Cloud9]

Last night, on CNN, we had the report card for America. It is clear that he honeymoon is over. Chicago politics and union riots will not play well in the country at large. I want this to play out at the ballot box not on the battle field.

Cool heads need to prevail.

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Fishman', 'H')ey Live, if you want to see some
"Those nut jobs screaming at the town hall meetings" go to youtube and view the protests during the Bush years, the present town hall meetings are relatively rational people expressing their view in comparison. The Dems are depending on America's short memories, the e net seem to be their downfall.
Hey Preston, Beck's Fox news profits are up 50%, perhaps your data is a little off.

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cloud9', 'I')t looks to me as though this is the beginning of the throw the rascals out movement.

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/aug/06 ... ews-metro/

[Cloud9]

I agree, we need to clean house and senate but not just from one side. We already have one party government. So far, I don't see that as an improvement.

[mattduke]

Remind me, why do we want anyone in these roles at all? We'd have been better off, like Hong Kong, if we'd remained a colony.

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cloud9', 'L')ast night, on CNN, we had the report card for America. It is clear that he honeymoon is over. Chicago politics and union riots will not play well in the country at large. I want this to play out at the ballot box not on the battle field.

Cool heads need to prevail.

[PrestonSturges]

This is pretty interesting, because this phony "movement" does not have a cell structure of revolutionary organization, nor does it have a charismatic leader.

It does have impressive corporate sponsorship.

So without an identifiable enemy to attack (Jews being the traditional favorite, or Hutus or whatever), what comes next? Are these people simply building up to white on black race riots. because God knows the white supremacists have been all over the tea party thing, and they are well armed and even somewhat organized.

Or does this simply go straight to the Taliban style meltdown, where people start burning schools and clinics, and rampaging through college dorms like Iran last month? But again where is the leader for that?

I'm reminded of cambodia - aren't the health care protesters convinced that doctors are merely homicidal maniacs waiting to kill them? So aren't doctors due to be purged? Pol Pott did a pretty good job of exterminating anyone with a high school education.

If anything, these guys seem more like Maoists. I guess the next step is for them to start blowing up infrastucture - that'll probably be the white supremacists, trying to ratchet things up several more notches to start race riots.

[gollum]

I'm going to go to the next town hall meeting and ask, if congress can afford three luxuary jets why we cant afford decent health care for all Americans. This from the same pricks who crucified the auto executives last winter for traveling to DC in business jets. Guess what congress you NEVER make a profit.

[Roy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')o without an identifiable enemy to attack (Jews being the traditional favorite, or Hutus or whatever), what comes next? Are these people simply building up to white on black race riots. because God knows the white supremacists have been all over the tea party thing, and they are well armed and even somewhat organized.

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Roy', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')o without an identifiable enemy to attack (Jews being the traditional favorite, or Hutus or whatever), what comes next? Are these people simply building up to white on black race riots. because God knows the white supremacists have been all over the tea party thing, and they are well armed and even somewhat organized.

[gollum]

Terrible things happend in the past of this country, and almost all of those who took part in them are long dead.....case closed.