Expected 30 at a sidewalk coffee place: got several hundred.
A few things to note:
- No SEIU on hand, so everything stayed peaceful.
- CO-02 is D+11 and includes the city of Boulder. They haven’t elected a Republican Congressman there since the 1970s. A front line in the 2010 election wars, it isn’t.
- Man, but there are a lot of ticked-off old people out there who want to talk about why they don’t like the way Congress is handling the health-care situation.
Shame the Speaker of the House would rather blather on about swastika-wielding mobs – hey! She means the ticked-off old people, doesn’t she?
Moe Lane
PS: I think that Polis may be getting it, a little. Or at least he’s not a natural born damned fool who’d casually insult an entire voting demographic by calling them Nazi astroturfing shills.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
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Robert A. Hahn (Diary) Saturday, August 8th at 10:34PM EST (link)Health Care Reform is dead. No matter whose polls the CongressCritters believe, no matter what they think is prompting all these people to show up at these events, they know one thing for sure: this is controversial. That’s all any politician needs to know about a subject in order to conclude that he’s against it and he wants it to go away. He doesn’t want to take a position on it and he certainly does not want to have to vote on it.
You watch: when these guys get back to Washington, ‘health care reform’ will get dropped like a hot rock.
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Moe Lane (Diary) Saturday, August 8th at 10:40PM EST (link)…when I see its metaphorical head on a metaphorical stick. And even then I’ll still do the mirror test.
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Danielle Davis (ocleverone) (Diary) Saturday, August 8th at 10:43PM EST (link)To me, “consensus” seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects … There are still people in my party who believe in “consensus” politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors … I mean it. — Margaret Thatcher
It's dead, but it seems that it's going to take a bit more
Richard Mullins (Diary) Saturday, August 8th at 10:49PM EST (link)to persuade Congressman Polis, or that see to what came out. A little more open minded at the end. I’m really wondering how Gene Green(TX-29) little thing went since he complained that the majority of the people at his town hall were not from his district(I really need to find the part of it that in the story in Houston Chronicle Friday).
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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.
I'm with Moe. I'll believe it when I see it.
Bill S (Diary) Sunday, August 9th at 12:17AM EST (link)Really, I think the Dems are going to kiss O-butt and vote for it no matter what the constituents are saying. I truly think they will buy the “astroturfing” crap and claim that the public really & truly wants socialized medicine.
They won’t know what hit them in 2010.
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mbecker908 (Diary) Saturday, August 8th at 10:45PM EST (link)No SEIU
JohnRichardson (Diary) Sunday, August 9th at 10:55AM EST (link)at the Memphis townhall, linked in the RedHot section, either. I suspect after St. Louis the SEIU has worn out it welcome.
MSM no longer has a thrill coming up its leg
SoFiMil (Diary) Sunday, August 9th at 11:30AM EST (link)Wasn’t it only a year ago during the primaries when the MSM couldn’t stop commenting upon (and complimenting) the American public’s engagement in the political process? So where’s the recognition for all those attending Tea Party and Health Con functions, who continue to engage in the political process? Why is the MSM no longer charmed? Oh, yeah…a year ago Obama also led in all the polls.
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Ausonius (Diary) Sunday, August 9th at 11:35AM EST (link)Just like the Dems need to beware believing their own lying propaganda, we need to keep punching and counterpunching. I do not believe that Hell-th Care “Reform” is dead, until NObama blinks on it, which has not yet happened.
Recall the overconfidence of the Ford Administration in the 1970′s in the campaign of 1976: they were supremely confident that all was well and going their way, and were blindsided by the results.
Let us go for unconditional surrender – no prisoners! (i.e. compromises) – and hope the Dems cannibalize each other in the coming months.
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