HOLY Shi…. Youtube Clips Make Me Feel Bad For Mike Castle
This is from a June 30th event in Georgetown. I wonder why I never read about this meeting in the Delaware media. There seems to have been a lot of angry questioning 3 days after his vote for the “Cap and Trade” energy bill.
He gets booed when the says (in his own hedged way) that global warming is real. OMG.
Some guy fears that the government is going to forcibly vaccinate him against swine flu.
Well said comrade. We should stifle these people’s questions.
They have every right to ask crazy-ass nutbag questions and stop the meeting in order to make everyone recite the pledge of allegiance. I say go for it SCCOR nutbags.
Plenty of nutbags in both the Rep & Dem parties…but Shehan is a hero??
I am embarrassed for (or of) my neighbors.
Is there a secession movement in lower Delaware? I would like to send them a check.
My favorite part is when the woman nutbag is making everyone stand up to say the pledge and Castle says something like, “Well, okay” and some loud male nutbag in the back yells out, “DO YOU KNOW IT!?!?”
That said, it was good to see Castle forced off-script. Castle’s MO is to only show up at single-topic meetings for which he has chosen the topic in advance.
I don’t think Castle has any reason to ever set foot in Sussex County again.
Oh lord. I was pretty pissed off when George Bush was awarded the presidency and I have never felt that he won the 2000 election fairly, but I didn’t take to yelling at my elected officials about it. I complained, to be sure, but I still respected the roles of government and carried on as a citizen for those eight years.
Watching this, I feel terrible for Mike Castle. I know that many on this site dislike Mr. Castle, but I have always liked him, having interviewed him as a reporter and having worked in state government when he was Governor. He is a good guy, reasonable, and centrist in most things. That he has to deal with people like this, without the comfort of having them hate him because he is a Democrat, must be really disheartening.
Now you have an idea of what people think about you, Jason.
It’s just the other side of the ass.
Anon 9:21,
Well if he is running for Senate he might need at least a few SC votes. And Yes…I would have liked to see liberals get it together enough to put some heat on him over his Bush-loving votes at one of his pretend Town Hall meetings like these nutbags have.
Mike,
I think Castle is getting paybacks for being so patrician, so aloof and so unresponsive to the electorate for so long. It is ironic that it is the wingnuts that are dispensing the justice, but there you have it. I now sorta hope he runs because he will not be able to hide from this shrieking mob.
BTW Mike – was there an organized press blackout on this? DId you read anything about this down there? The Cape Gazette seems to do a fair job and reports of this unusual meeting seem like they would have been newsworthy.
Here’s how another old guy handled some conspiracy theorist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ez-NpFVwQw
I almost felt sorry for Castle in this — his body language showed exactly how uncomfortable he was. But good for him for not feeding the radio-fed alternate reality these people are in. I was embarrassed for these people too — H1N1 created up in Ft. Dix? With any luck, Michael Crichton’s estate is tracking down the perpetrator of this bit of fiction ready with plagiarism charges.
But you can see from that clip why there is no percentage in being a “moderate” Republican anymore.
Sorry, after reading the post and the comments, I won’t be watching the videos. I don’t read or listen to craziness such as this or Fox News or Common Sense Politics blog.
Jason-I’m sure there was no news black-out…if you remember our state budget was on the front and all burners at the time. I give Congressman Castle a heckuva lot of credit for hanging in there w/ such surly attendees. He certainly modeled a degree of decorum that he was not afforded likewise–and especially on some over the top, incindiery issues that brought no value, information, or facts to our public from DC, or from Delaware to DC.
I have to say my meetings w/ Rep. Castle in the past have ALWAYS been informational, or information gathering on his part–extremely engaged and attentive. I wholly credit his change on SCHIPS, and children’s Medicaid based off those meetings, when he realized how far reaching those medical services impacted, apart from a routine doctor or hospital visit, and the overall financial, and efficiency impact. You don’t get that dialog, with people spewing their TRUE DETECTIVE stories to a public servant who has shown up for honest engagement, and ends up a guest on Jerry Springer.
Castle going Buzz Aldrin on some wingnuts is fun to imagine.
Nemski,
You get the idea from the comments. The interesting thing about the video is how it is not just one crazy person, but a room full of wingnut sharks, all of them sensing blood in the water.
JC –
You make a good point. Castle even treats the “forced vaccination” guy’s questions with dignity. Let’s cordon off everything west of Rt one in Sussex and just declare it a huge Jerry Springer set.
What is a Progressive Democrat?
What does a Progressive Democrat believe the role of government is?
A progressive Democrat believes that government should and can provide a social safety net for its population, like social security, unemployment insurance and healthcare. It should set standards and provide funding for education. And of course the government should provide for the national defense. In other areas, the government should regulate the free market to prevent fraud and monopolies, but should otherwise allow the market to work.
The Mike Castle videos hurt my hear, but the Buzz Alrin clip made my day. Oh my, that is great.
I try to imagine being Buzz on the moon and thinking that this is the greatest moment of my life and then to come back and get accosted by some kid that wasn’t even born yet(and for the record, I wasn’t born either) telling you that your are a liar and it never happened. I’d punch the SOB, too.
LG,
I know. The nerve of these Republican nutbags. This is from Aldrin’s wikipedia bio
That kid was lucky he only got a sock in the kisser.
Comment rescue from the comments on the Aldrin Youtube clip:
“Neil Armstrong punched that guy first though. “
I did not see any news down here on this, but I am not as voracious a newsie as I might be. The thing that concerns me is that the SCCOR seems to draw from east of Georgetown as well. Or at least from Central Sussex. I think there is talk of someone involved in SCCOR running in the 37th (which includes my town of lewes0 should Joe Booth take Adams’ seat.
As much as Castle has aligned his votes with the right, I agree with the view that he is basically decent. I actually think this G-town experience will be an eye-opener for him. I am sure the SCCOR crowd is all high-fiving each other about how they gave Castle an earful. But Castle, being basically decent, is no doubt recoiling in repulsion. And given his habitual seclusion, this may be a wakeup call for him.
So I’m hoping that, when Castle goes back to Washington now, whenever he is hanging out with his wingnut Republican colleagues in Congress, when he looks at them, he will see the face of the howling SCCOR idiots. Maybe he will start to get the connection between the extremists and the “mainstream” in the GOP.
“Cap and Trade” is really a boon to Wall Street types looking to make a killing trading those “environmental indulgences” that Pope Al is pushing.
“Cap and Trade” is really a boon to Wall Street types looking to make a killing trading those “environmental indulgences” that Pope Al is pushing.
What’s wrong with boons?
If Art Downs knew what the hell he was talking about, he would know that those “indulgences” can help the owners who clean up their act make an even bigger killing. But it is just a bit much to expect that a conservative would know something about how markets actually work.
Bet that Artie here was pretty sanguine about the entire business of bad derivatives that his Wall Street types made a fortune out of and had to be bailed out of.
Thanks DelDem: If I can ask a follow up…
>>>A progressive Democrat believes that government should and can provide a social safety net for its population, like social security,<<<>>>unemployment insurance<<<<>>>and healthcare<<<<>>>It should set standards and provide funding for education.<<<>>>And of course the government should provide for the national defense.<<<>>>In other areas, the government should regulate the free market to prevent fraud and monopolies, but should otherwise allow the market to work.<<<<<
[Does that define Progressives only?]
[Isn't government control of General Motors, AIG, Dozens of Banks and soon the health care, pharmaceutical and energy industries the creation of a government monopoly that otherwise does not allow the free market to work?]
[Is a government monopoly less offensive or threatening than any other monopoly or is it the most dangerous of all monopolies?]
[Fraud is fraud and government is the institution for criminal enforcement and public punishment but what if the government's regulations become part of a fraud or the politician's benefit from the regulations if not the frauds?]
[When does too much government become too much government?]
Watching these videos makes me convinced that Castle won’t run for Senate unless they clear the field for him. Can you imagine him trying to pander to these voters and the Democratic majority at the same time?
If he pulls that off he could have a second career in Cirque du Soleil.
DelDem:
Comment by Delaware Dem on 18 July 2009 at 10:45 am:
>>>>>A progressive Democrat believes that government should and can provide a social safety net for its population, like social security, unemployment insurance and healthcare. It should set standards and provide funding for education. And of course the government should provide for the national defense. In other areas, the government should regulate the free market to prevent fraud and monopolies, but should otherwise allow the market to work.<<<<
[If that is the definition of Progressive Democrat then what's the difference between a Progressive Democrat, a Democrat and a Republican?]
Few fall into that ‘rugged individualist’ category that would eliminate all ‘safety nets’.
Yet it takes vigilance and judgement to prevent safety nets from becoming enervating and addictive hammocks.
A progressive democrat believes the more you produce the more you should be punished.
A regular democrate just believes that if you produce you sould be punished
I appreciate the humor but the Red vs Blue name calling is predictable and inane.
What I’d like to know is what is the difference between a Progressive Democrat and a Democrat and a Republican. I see a lot of name calling adjectives used here but can anyone stand up and state what they believe in besides I love Blue…Go Blue…Wingnuts, wingbags…bla bla bla?
“Castle is basically decent”. So decent he has voted against YOU every chance he gets. Check his campaign contributions from the biggest banksters, chemical companies, credit card companies who have all been screwing YOU to death. Castle was asked the question about health care in the last election….he had no response then as Chrysler and GM were going out of business because of it. He didnt even know until Nagle pointed it out…that GM was leaving Delaware?
Castle is further right than a neo con, who is a profound corporate whore, who goes out of his way to vote against the citizens. Throw this bum to the curb, he deserves no respect.
Here is Castle acting like he doesnt know there is a bill that states there will be “forced vaccinations against swine flu”, in fact it is true! In the bill, it states that “corporations who make the vaccine will be exempt from lawsuits”.
Castle is playing it dumb here, just like he did when on WILM and asked, “would support the Amero and the North American Treaty bringing Canada, Mexico and the US under one banner”. Carper said he didnt know about it either….dumb, dumb and dumber!
They can’t defend this stuff so deflection is their line of defense. They fund the NAFTA superhighway while denying any knowledge of it. The same is true of mandatory vaccinations.
It is so outrageous that they hope people won’t believe that it is true. The fact is children, military personnel, and others are often required to take vaccinations or face sanctions. Homeland Security also has the power since 2001 to declare an emergency and require an area to be vaccinated.
Such requirements should only be based upon established and proven vaccines not hopes and guesses. Informed consent does no good if you are not given risk information and allowed to make a free decision based upon it.
And here we go again — Delusional David making shit up again.
ANON DelDem et al: Again I ask…What is the difference between a Progressive Democrat and a Democrat and a Republican?
I see a lot of name calling adjectives used here but can anyone stand up and state what they believe in besides I love Blue…Go Blue…Wingnuts, wingbags…bla bla bla?
As I’m watching that, and seeing Castle so calm, with all of those total nutbag, racist, xenophobes spouting garbage at him, I could just tell that he had the look of a man who knows in about a year he won’t have to deal with that BS any more.
I was wondering whether Castle would run for Senate, or not, but his body language in that video said it all. These people have destroyed the Republican party in this state and in this nation. They are paranoid, delusional, and frightening.
I like Mike Castle, while I don’t agree with him on some of the major issues of the last decade or so, I think in sum, he’s been a good public servant to Delaware. I think it’s been good to have at least one Republican in statewide office (Wagner doesn’t count), and it doesn’t get much more liberal for a GOPer today, than Castle. He’s done some good work and for him to be so disrespected like that is shameful.
I hope he has a great retirement, enjoys some time with his wife at the beach, and let’s those people drown in their own ignorance.
George…>>>As I’m watching that, and seeing Castle so calm, with all of those total nutbag, racist, xenophobes spouting garbage at him<<<<
More name calling. What's up with that? Can you tell me what the difference is between a Progressive Democrat, a Democrat and a Republican?
“A progressive Democrat believes that government should and can provide a social safety net for its population, like social security, unemployment insurance and healthcare.”…. DelDem
You forgot about inter-generational welfare.
What is the difference between a Progressive Democrat and a Democrat and a Republican?
“the biggest banksters, chemical companies, credit card companies who have all been screwing YOU to death.”
Quick, get some oxygen. Those are the three biggest private-sector job sources in the state. You’ll notice that NONE of our delegation votes against those power centers with any regularity.
Geezer: What votes need to be against the Delaware banks, credit card or chemical companies?
What about the other power center in the state: Government. What about that power center? Is it okay for Senator Kaufman to hold down the Senate fort, refusing to run in a primary so Beau Biden can take over as head of Delaware’s organized government Family? Is that real voter choice? Did we pass the 17th Amendment to create organized government families?
Can you tell me what the difference is between a Progressive Democrat, a regular Democrat and a Republican?
Hey Bob, I want to see that birth certificate!