Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Crooksandliars.com has more on the GOP Astroturf campaign to disprupt healthcare town halls. Rachel Maddow: Big Money Pulling the Strings of Protests Rachel Maddow exposes the monied interests pretending to be "average Americans" who are fueling the outrage at these "town halls gone wild". First up, Recess Rally, sponsored by Michelle Malkin, … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: When you recruit hooligans and thugs from the far fringes of American society, you have to expect this kind of behavior. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA), the president of the freshman Democratic class has been “physically assaulted at a local event.” Freshman Democratic lawmaker ‘physically assaulted at a local event’ by activists. Rep. … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The town hall meeting is ingrained in the history of New England from its earliest colonial days. While in decline, the town hall meeting is still the form of government in use today in a number of small towns in New England. History of Town Meeting: Origins of Small Town Government and … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The health insurance industry lobbyists, right-wing political action committees, and the RNC are orchestrating an Astroturf campaign to disrupt townhall meetings of Democratic members of Congress to create YouTube moments for the easily gullible and incompetent mainstream media to report as public opposition to health care reform. The people who show up at these … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Democratic National Committee released a new web ad on Tuesday evening, accusing the Republican Party of being taken over by an angry mob of "birther" conspiracy theorists and disgruntled partisans. DNC Goes All In: Takes On Birthers, Conservative "Mob" In New Web Ad The spot, titled "Enough of the Mob," is … Read more