One of hopefully many scenes from the August Health Care Rationing Grassroots Feedback Seminars.


Not one of my videos, but it should warm your heart. Via Instapundit, I present to you this delightful exercise where Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D, TX) gets some feedback from his constituents on health care rationing.

By the way, do you know how Republican TX-25 is?

It’s not. D+6. Doggett was apparently not expecting this level of mentoring from his employers.

Moe Lane

PS: Looks fun, doesn’t it?

Crossposted to Moe Lane.


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djemi (Diary) Sunday, August 2nd at 11:59PM EST (link)

Doggett's district used to just be Austin area

bk (Diary) Monday, August 3rd at 12:01AM EST (link)

and it was rock-solid safe for a Democratic. Jake Pickle held it for about 150 years I think. But after DeLay and company redistricted him it was tougher for him and he beat some Hispanic after that. He might have even had to move to get into a friendlier district – I don’t recall. I used to be in this creep’s district but thankfully we got shifted to the area now under Michael McCaul.

It’s great to see the Dems get a dose of their own medicine. They love to disrupt conservative gatherings, using hired thugs as often as not. The groups who are mad at the Dems are truly grass roots from all appearances. Nice to see the silent majority not being so silent.

I meant to add...

bk (Diary) Monday, August 3rd at 12:07AM EST (link)

Our districts are just as creative after DeLay got done with them as they were before under maps that Democrats drew.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/findyourreps.xpd?state=TX

Austin got split up to make all the slots around here more competitive. Doggett has District 25 which starts at the south end of Austin and covers a large area without a huge concentration of population. The areas he has near Austin are growing and I suspect they are more conservative, so it could get tougher and tougher for him over time.

We are now in District 10 which goes from the NE corner of Austin to the NW corner of Houston.

Ah yes the imfamous 2006 redistricting

Richard Mullins (Diary) Monday, August 3rd at 12:16AM EST (link)

Before 2006 TX-28
After 2006 TX-23

That was when I was living at home in SE San Antonio, now i live in Spring and it TX-02.

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

 
 
 

It sure does.

NeoKong (Diary) Monday, August 3rd at 12:05AM EST (link)

Moe Lane

PS: Looks fun, doesn’t it?

I’ll give the guy some credit for standing among them.
Other Democrats were calling the cops on senior citizens.
The Code Pinkers never had a crowd like that on their best day.

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All they need now

izoneguy (Diary) Monday, August 3rd at 12:13AM EST (link)

Are the Tar & Feathers and the Pitchforks….
Later in the year some flaming torches should enhance the mood.

The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.

Unlike th ebankers, Obama isn't standing between dem politicians and the pitchforks!

nessa (Diary) Monday, August 3rd at 1:25AM EST (link)

I had to buy one of Glenn Beck’s T Shirts, “Torches and Pitchforks, Protecting americans From Politicians since 1787″

“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams

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I think the times may be calling for the return

Ward_Off_Monkey Monday, August 3rd at 1:10PM EST (link)

of tarring and feathering as was done leading up to and during the American Revolution. It would send a strong message to those in Washington who would usurp the peoples’ rights, just as it did in the days of the Revolution. Take this account from “The Diary of John Rowe”, published by the Cambridge Press in 1895:

On January 25, 1774 John Malcolm was put “into a Cart, Tarr’d & feathered him – carrying thro’ the principals Streets of this Town with a halter about him, from thence to the Gallows & Returned thro’ the Main Street making Great Noise & Huzzaing.”

Applying this treatment to today’s Democrats and faux Republicans would not be a bad thing. As I said in response to Lamar Alexander’s announcement of support for Sotomayor, next time he comes to Knoxville a group of his constituents should tar and feather him and ride him out of town on a rail. That would be a good start but there are many more in Washington and in our statehouses that would benefit from the same treatment.

“The government’s view of the economy can be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” ~ Ronald Reagan

 
 

Does Make....

Freedomlover (Diary) Monday, August 3rd at 12:26AM EST (link)

you feel like there’s some hope, (darn, can’t use that word anymore),
how about, fire out there. We need to keep the pressure on on all of them. Some of the original groups of Tea Parties are joining together for the National Recess Rally. Here’s a link:

http://recessrally.com/

I’m planning on going to my reps. office. If we all do, maybe they’ll start listening.

 

Everyone was paid to be there

red4ever (Diary) Monday, August 3rd at 12:47AM EST (link)

According to the liberal trolls on the Statesman website. Of course they would think that since the only way anyone shows up to support Liberal causes is when ACORN buses them in. The concept of honestly involved citizenry is foreign to them.

When I lived in austin I was in Doggetts district before redistricting. I was still there after redistricting. Thanks alot.

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I wonder how long it will take

Duke Monday, August 3rd at 9:39AM EST (link)

before ACORN starts the counter-protests? Considering the fact that Comrade Zero launched out of the Chicago Patronage Machine, morphed out of the organization created in the late ’20s by Al Capone, the conservative demonstrations could turn into riots. The left would like nothing better, al la “rules for radicals.”

It’s not about a purge. It’s about an insurrection.

I Hope They Try It - It Will Go Very Badly for Them If They Do (nt)

IJB Monday, August 3rd at 10:05AM EST (link)

They already are

briann (Diary) Monday, August 3rd at 11:13AM EST (link)

I have seen Acorn “agitators” at a couple of events already. They are usually outnumbered, anywhere from 2-1 to 10-1.

They have one guy with a camera and another will get in your face and try to start a fight. The attempts are so transparent that it’s pretty laughable.

-Bri

Even Doggett has that talking point

red4ever (Diary) Monday, August 3rd at 12:56PM EST (link)

In a statement he actually said everyone who protested was a Republican or Libertarian plant:
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/politics/index.html

Also, he is still going to vote for the bill despite the overwhelming rejection by his constituents.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
Dante

 
 
 
 

Nice

Hera Monday, August 3rd at 1:59AM EST (link)

I hope to see scenes like this repeated again and again during the August recess.

 

And they said Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No!" campaign would never catch on! (nt)

The_Gadfly (Diary) Monday, August 3rd at 1:36PM EST (link)

amen - see my get re-elected by doing nothing strategy - LINK

Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Monday, August 3rd at 1:38PM EST (link)

http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/08/01/a-rece/

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Doggett = poster child for Term Limits

popdaddy Monday, August 3rd at 11:11PM EST (link)

Fortunately, I live in the Western part of the Socialist Republic of Travis County Texas and am under the protection of Congressman Lamar Smith.
Doggett is completely worthless, has never amounted to anything above a sure vote for any democrat wacko agenda item.

I honestly cannot recall anything positive he has done for the core of old hippies that have continued to vote for him other than rant the old yellow dog socialist democrat yap of the day.

I did contact his office last week on behalf of my 75 year old mother-in-law fighting cancer on MediCare. His staff person was totally unconcerned with the looming cuts in Medicare, rationing and The Moron’s desire for people like my mother-in-law to just take a pain pill.
I sure wish I’d known about this little gathering over the weekend.