No I read it. Internal memo, sit up front make sure your voice is heard, make him think that your constituency is larger than he might otherwise think.
Standard political tactics.
You’d all be praising it if Democrats were doing it in a Republican district.
We all? You got a cite that I have done so?
You sure? All the words?
But where’s the fun in that?
I’m all fired up and ready to deliver a heapin’ helpin’ of praise and hosannas, you bethca! Where did it happen? Give me all the details!
Assumes facts not in evidence.
You really have no idea what the teabaggers are doing, do you? They’re not interested in debate, they’re trying to shout it down. This is not a good thing.
Did you guys see that! **Carol Stream **made another funny! Our influence is gradually rearranging her DNA!
Now, I’m not saying this is proof positive of a just and loving Goddess, but still…
And what makes you think that the people going to the town hall meeting are planning to do that?
And you would be wrong about that, as you are on most things.
Again, what makes you think that is what is being planned? You quoted from two seperate sources. One of them is local and will probably have a goodly number of people there. The other group is not local and probably won’t have a single soul there. Yet you do a guilt by association/insinuation thing - they are both conservative groups, therefore this will be their game plan. I’m wondering why you found it necessary to do that.
As I’ve been reading this thread, it occurred to me that using people heckling Ann Coulter as an example of the same thing isn’t really valid.
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t appreciate hecklers. However, heckling Ann Coulter (or Michael Moore, for that matter) is not the same as interfering with a representative attempting to communicate with his or her constituents.
In the first case you’re interfering with essentially an entertainer espousing a political viewpoint, in the second you’re monkey-wrenching the democratic process.
Code Pink interfering with governmental proceedings such as hearings is a better example.
My mistake. I’m sure you’re capable of masturbating to her without the poster.
Who did i quote? I haven’t quoted anyone in this thread, as far as i can tell.
If the people attending the meetings do indeed just ask questions and listen to the responses, and offer criticisms of the politicians and their policies, then that’s great. But there are groups of conservatives who are involved in this campaign who are exhorting their comrades to use methods that are purely obstructionist and designed to quash speech, debate, and explanation. If the people attending the meeting do those things, then my criticism stands.
I’ve been talking, in this thread, largely about matters of principle. You can look it up if you’re unfamiliar with the concept.
Perhaps, but none of this negates my point.
If heckling for no other purpose than to shut down speech and dialog is wrong when done to an entertainer like Coulter or Moore (and i believe it is), then it’s even more wrong when done in a forum where a representative and his or her constituents are involved.
Exactly my point. Shutting down communication between a rep and his or her constituents is more wrong, much more. Especially when it’s instigated by corporate backed astroturf groups, as appears to be the case here.
Here’s a blog post about a group of organizers that was able to suppress a planned disruption of their meeting through good planning.
:rolleyes: sigh Do you all remember what a sick, sad, pathetic joke the “Tea Party” protests turned out to be? This set of protests will be, and will deserve to be, substantially the same.
“And the Tea Baggers will shrivel.”
Did they really need to? 
Cite? Stand-up comedians notwithstanding, the USPS does a damn fine job. And Medicare is very popular with people who actually use it. And government run VA health care is first rate. Better government run UHC than health care controlled by insurance companies.
Facts are irrelevant. If the popular wisdom is that Al Gore says he invented the Internet, then by golly that becomes the truth! And so it is with your silly little reality-based arguments. You really need to pay closer attention to your Aunt Bea’s forwarded forwarded forwarded emails.
Disrupting and bullying and shouting down opponents, as opposed to engaging them in rational debate, is, undeniably, a classic fascist tactic.
Fascists do not, of course, hold a copyright on such tactics, but all fascist movements have made lavish use of them.