{"id":13196,"date":"2009-08-03T17:36:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T22:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=13196"},"modified":"2009-08-03T17:49:44","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T22:49:44","slug":"left-doesnt-like-its-own-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13196","title":{"rendered":"Left doesn&#8217;t like it&#8217;s own tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/290456.php\">Ace of Spades<\/a>, you can see videos of Kathleen Sebelius and the Senate&#8217;s newest Democrat Arlen Specter getting shouted down at a Townhall meeting and Lloyd Doggett getting a dose of Tea Partiers at his own town hall meeting. <\/p>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/07\/31\/recess-harassment-memo\/\">Think Progress<\/a> thinks they&#8217;ve found a &#8220;talking points memo&#8221; from Freedom Works that outlines ways to disrupt these townhall meetings. And they&#8217;re not happy about it. One commenter at Think Progress complained;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These are truly un-American people, afraid of change, afraid of improvements, and completely against helping ordinary people. It&#8217;s all about how much these Repubs can line their greedy pockets. This intimidation of duly elected persons, attempting to do their jobs &#038; actually communicate with voters is truly disturbing &#038; frightening.<\/p>\n<p>I hope all Dems &#038; in particular, the White House, has received this information.<\/p>\n<p>And how is it that Gates is arrested, yet hanging a politician in effigy is simply ignored?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They&#8217;re pretty upset about it at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/discuss\/duboard.php?az=view_all&#038;address=132x8565424\">Democratic Underground<\/a>, too;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We bring in the tasers and the fine books and take care of these assholes. Yelling out and causing disruptions like this should get you fined and if it continues tased. I mean they weren&#8217;t afraid to shoot liberal students in college. I&#8217;m only talking about town hall meetings, if they want to chant let them go outside and chant away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s as if the last eight years never happened, isn&#8217;t it? What made me laugh was one of the &#8220;talking points&#8221; was;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Artificially Inflate Your Numbers: \u201cSpread out in the hall and try to be in the front half. The objective is to put the Rep on the defensive with your questions and follow-up. The Rep should be made to feel that a majority, and if not, a significant portion of at least the audience, opposes the socialist agenda of Washington.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While I was reading the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/denise-dennis\/right-wingers-wreak-havoc_b_249897.html\">HuffPo article<\/a> about the Sebelius\/Specter incident, I found this description of the supporters of the healthcare plan; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There were people in the crowd wearing purple t-shirts with gold and white lettering that said &#8220;Health Care Now We Can&#8217;t Wait.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, those people in the purple shirts were forced to be there by their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seiu.org\/index.php\">SEIU union masters<\/a>. That&#8217;s how the Left boosts their numbers at rallies &#8211; send in the unions.<\/p>\n<p>Think Progress interviewed Dick Durbin (you know, the guy who called our troops at Guantanamo SS guards) called protests at townhall meetings &#8220;a sucker punch&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But you know, I hope my colleagues won\u2019t fall for a sucker-punch like this. These health insurance companies and people like them are trying to load these town halls for visual impact on television.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>So, we need to have a much more balanced approach that really allows members of Congress to hear both sides of the story, rather than being sucker-punched or side-tracked by these types of tactics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, we don&#8217;t want the Democrats sidetracked like the Left has sidetracked the war against terror. TSO writes; &#8220;the rank hypocrisy of this is phenomenal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Claymore for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Ace of Spades, you can see videos of Kathleen Sebelius and the Senate&#8217;s newest Democrat &hellip; <a title=\"Left doesn&#8217;t like it&#8217;s own tactics\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13196\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Left doesn&#8217;t like it&#8217;s own tactics<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,28,47,5,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-bloggers-and-stuff","category-liberals-suck","category-politics","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}