Think back over the past 2 months to all the town halls that have been held by Democratic representatives all over this country concerning health care. Hundreds. Now think back to all the abuse these same Democratic representatives have taken from the Anti-Reform crowd.
At a Tampa forum, Democratic Rep. Kathy Castor struggled to make herself heard and eventually cut her appearance short as dozens of people shouted "Tyranny! Tyranny! Tyranny!" reports the St. Petersburg Times. Amid the crowd of about 1,500, the newspaper reported, other chants rang out like, "Tell the truth! Tell the truth!" "Read the bill!" "Forty-million illegals! Forty million illegals!"
And it's not just the rudeness of the tea baggers. It's the escalating threats of violence too that our Democratic Representatives and even our President have been subjected to over the course of the past 2 months. Now imagine if the same thing were to happen at a Republican Town Hall? What? What's that? Can't find a Republican Representative holding a Town Hall? Well maybe it's because they are being held behind closed doors, not open to the public.
Two leading U.S. Senate Republicans will be at a Hialeah hospital Tuesday, listening to South Florida healthcare leaders about what they want to see in a reform package out of Washington.
The event at Palmetto General will be led by Senators John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential candidate, and Mitch McConnell, the party's leader in the Senate. It will be open to the press, but closed to the public. Unions are planning to protest outside.
And it's not just an isolated incident. Here in Charlotte, Richard Burr (R) is joining McConnell and McCain in a forum at Carolinas Health Care, but it is only open to "hospital staff and invited guests".
Hospital staff and invited guests are expected to make up the crowd this morning when Republican U.S. Sens. Richard Burr, John McCain and Mitch McConnell host a health care forum at Carolinas Medical Center.
The three senators will tour the Levine Children's Hospital near uptown Charlotte at 8:30a.m. and meet with employees, doctors and patients until 10. The event is nominally open but will take place in an auditorium that can seat only about 250 people.
In fact McConnell has held ZERO public health care town halls, instead preferring to speak to Rotary Clubs and Hospital Groups
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who has been critical of health care proposals from President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats, is not holding town halls. Instead, he is speaking to Rotary clubs, chambers of commerce and hospital groups, according to spokesman Robert Steurer.
They have the nerve to spread malicious lies to seniors about death panels and death books, but won't hold public town halls? Maybe it's because when they do, they end up embarassing themselves
Here's some inspiration for those of you involved in the health care debates. On Sunday, Republican Pete Olson (TX-22--Tom Delay's old district) held a health care town hall meeting, and attempted to propagandize a young kid's heart defect by relating the story of a mother's effort to get transplant surgery for the infant. When he tried to claim that the child would not have received care under a single payer plan, the audience shouted him down, saying that the mother was initially denied coverage for the operation by free market insurance:
The Democrats need to make this an issue out of not just this, but the whole lack of town hall business too. PLEASE! Is ANYONE on Capitol Hill listening?