The Best Breakdown of the Town Hall Screamer Craze That I’ve Read
The Rude Pundit connects the dots.
For one thing, Republicans don’t do well when they’re out of power, especially after an extended period of being in power. Ask Jimmy Carter. Ask Bill Clinton. Democrats try to figure out a way to make it work when there’s a Republican president. Republicans just try to figure out how to f*ck shit up when the executive’s a Democrat. These approaches do not go together.
Read the whole thing.
I don’t think he is right about the investigations (there would just be teabagging on two fronts then), but this is some rant!
Yes, clearly the Democrats were sober, rational and reasonable over the past 8 years. Absolutely. No reason for anyone to think they were in any way upset. All we saw was people “trying to make things work”.
Duffy thinks George Bush was a great President. The fact is he sucked and Democrats sucked for giving him so much.
Oh I don’t know — Democrats voted for the tax cuts that put us into deficit; they voted for the war and all of the supplementals; they voted for the stupidity of Medicare Part D and a whole litany of Bush BS just to “make things work”. Maybe Duffy has some evidence of Democrats flooding town hall meetings to shout down people and tell old people that the government is trying to kill you.
He can probably produce a tape of Michael Moore and pretend that a film marker or some blogger had more power than the Dems in congress.
Adults reading that section realize that tRP is talking about Dems in Congress trying to make things work. Children and Republicans might think tRP is talking about me or Michael Moore. I sure wanted Democrats and so-called centrists Republican to frustrate Bush’s idiocy. Alas, it was not to be.
Ask Jimmy Carter
OoooK….
While I agree there certainly is a major pity party (being kind) that happens in the given scenario, let’s not get revisionist by saying to ask Carter. Carter was equal-opportunity in infuriating all parties. His own party couldn’t stand him before the first two years were over. Carter is not a good example here as he made his own controversy in terms of political fighting. Clinton? Yes, he is a good example, for sure.
Here is one for the birthers:
per his Secretary of State:
“The president considers himself a son of Africa,” she said in Liberia’s legislature on Thursday, a phrase she repeated at nearly every stop in an 11-day trip aimed at improving relations with key players on the continent.
So he considered himself a son of Africa and it’s ok – others consider him a son of Africa and they are ‘lunatics’.
I’m just saying…..
Two Speakers in One!
• “I say to the president, Mr. President, if you think that our troops in Iraq are there to fight for democracy, do not destroy it at home by cutting off our freedom of speech. . . . “So I thank all of you who have spoken out for your courage, your point of view. All of it. Your advocacy is very American and very important. . . . There’s nothing more articulate, or more eloquent, to a member of Congress than the voice of his or her own constituent. . . . I’m a fan of disruptors,”–Nancy Pelosi, speaking to a San Francisco town hall meeting, Jan. 17, 2006
• “I think they’re AstroTurf. You be the judge. They’re carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on health care.”–Nancy Pelosi on disruptive constituents, Aug. 5, 2009