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Republicans will enact the health reform proposal they unveiled this week if they take back the House, Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) pledged Thursday. Appearing on the Republican National Committee's (RNC) online town hall, Boehner and other House and Senate leaders said they sensed momentum behind GOP efforts to halt Democratic health reform legislation, which is set for a vote on Saturday. "If we get in the majority after the election, I plan to enact our healthcare plan," Boehner said during the town hall.

This afternoon I am invited to participate in a townhall meeting conference call. Wanted to solicit ideas from my Freerepublic friends and what I should ask the Senator.

U.S. Sen. John McCain said Friday that Americans are in the toughest times he can remember and that President Barack Obama hasn't brought the change in Washington that he promised. The Arizona Republican spoke at a town hall Friday to a couple hundred people at Mesa's Central Christian Church, reiterating many of the same arguments he's made in recent similar events. McCain took to the stage with standing ovations and an aim to address key issues affecting Arizonans, such as the economy, health care reform, the war in Afghanistan, among other things.

MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Sen. John McCain says Americans are in the toughest times he can remember and that President Barack Obama hasn't brought the change in Washington that he promised. McCain spoke at a town hall Friday to a couple hundred people in a Mesa church, reiterating many of the same points he's made in recent similar events.

Democrats are getting closer to agreeing on a health care reform bill, but there are still town hall meetings held across the country where people can go to voice their opinions on the issue. At times, the meetings have been heated. On October 30 and 31, Senator John McCain will discuss issues affecting Arizonans, including the economy, health care reform, and the war in Afghanistan in Town Hall meetings. Town Hall Meetings: Oct. 30, 2:00 pm Central Christian Church 933 N. Lindsay Rd., Mesa, AZ Oct. 31, 10:00am Skyway Church of the West Valley 14900 W. Van Buren St., Goodyear,...

Conservatives are sick and tired of being taken for granted, misrepresented, and talked down to by the same "elite" Republicans in Washington who hopelessly screwed everything up during the Bush years. Everybody knows exactly whom we're talking about here. The same snobby, elitist, stuffed shirt, squishy, poll-obsessed Country Club Republicans who went to D.C., forgot who put them there, wasted the incredible opportunity they had to change this country for the better, and are now pointing the finger at everyone except themselves for their mistakes. Here are five messages for those people: We're not going back to the Bush years:...

As the health care debate raged on across the country, U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise continued to attack proposals supported by President Barack Obama at a town hall event held Monday in Slidell, pushing instead an alternative bill to end frivolous medical lawsuits and create health care competition across state lines. "I oppose this bill," he said to applause from the more than 200 who attended the event at Slidell Junior High School. "I strongly think we need to make reforms to health care in this country but I think we need to be very careful to fix the things that...

Better late than never:Democratic Rep. Dina Titus will do this week what most Nevada lawmakers ably avoided during the long hot summer of Tea Party protests: She will host an open town hall forum on health care on Monday. The freshmen congresswoman had publicly promised her constituents in August that she would return to her Southern Nevada district in fall with a full-fledged forum. Titus is keeping good on her word with an event from 7-8 p.m. on Monday at Temple Ner Tamid, 55 North Valle Verde Drive in Henderson. Yes, questions will be taken and answered.Good for Rep. Titus...

Here is video from Obama's town hall meeting today where he took a question from a little boy who asked Obama "why do people hate you? They supposed to love you." (Video)

If there's anything Lindsey Graham does for the Republican party, it's that he reminds his constituents that political principles are more important than winning. In these videos, Graham simply has no shame as he continues to defy principle for compromise in the name of "winning." Since when did morality become all about winning? Regardless, the last time I checked Mr. Moderate John McCain didn't exactly excite voters in last year's presidential race other than to vote against Democrats. Honestly, I'd rather have one Republican in office who actually stood behind the Constitution than a super majority made up of two...

(snip) McCain took five questions about health care, and heard from several other people, including one who challenged his conservative credentials and several who said they deeply opposed Obama policies and expansion of the government into health care or other facets of personal life. (snip) The only note of disagreement came from Gabriela Mercer, a naturalized citizen from Mexico who repeatedly challenged McCain’s conservative credentials, saying he has not represented Arizona on immigration issues. McCain defended his record and said he recently won an award for tight-fisted spending. (snip)

Please consider taking time out to attend either one of these two simultaneous Town Halls across the Delaware River. 1. BOB CASEY SIDEWALK TOWN HALL – Senator Casey (D-PA) did not hold one August Town Hall in this region. Let's tell him what we think of Obamacare and his recent vote on Acorn funding at our own Sidewalk Town Hall. When: Friday, October 9, 12 Noon – 2 PM Where: 2000 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 2. BOB MENENDEZ SIDE WALK TOWN HALL – Senator Menendez (D-NJ) also skipped the August Town Halls and recently voted against the Bunning Amendment to...

Here is video of a raucous Town Hall Meeting at Suffolk County Community College in Brentwood, New York, where Democrat Congressman Steve Israel faced a skeptical crowd as he tried to make the case for the Democrats' Health Care Plan. Israel was asked a simple question: "Why can't we just fix the part of health care that is broken, when what is needed is tort reform?" The crowd went wild at the question! Rep. Israel then condescendingly tried to lecture the crowd about why tort reform is not a good thing! The crowd remained raucous throughout his attempted answer. ....

Sen. John McCain will hold a town hall on health care from 2 to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Sahuarita school district auditorium, 350 W. Sahuarita Road. Doors open at noon. Parking is available behind the school district administration building, whose driveway is west of the varsity baseball field. Parking also is available off the driveway to the middle school and primary school, which is the first driveway east of Rancho Sahuarita Boulevard. The format and other details will be made available Tuesday, McCain’s office said.

The congressman began the rare meeting with voters in his district by apologizing for being late. He had taken a wrong turn in Jackson, GA, on his way to Covington. Wrong turns by politicians in Washington are becoming a common occurrence, and no one in the primarily conservative crowd seemed to be surprised. Marshall then admitted that his lack of direction may have come from the fact that, out of the 100 town hall meetings he granted over the last two years, only four have been done in Newton County, the conservative portion of his district. That leaves 96 meetings...

In the latest incident of violent rhetoric against the president, an anonymous user of Facebook posted a poll on Saturday asking if Barack Obama should be assassinated. Administrators of the online social networking website took down the poll on Monday, but not before it received 730 responses to the question, “Should Obama be killed?” The identity of the poll’s author is not known, nor are the responses to the poll, which was posted using third-party software unaffiliated with Facebook itself. The incident came to light after the Secret Service received a tip and contacted Facebook. Threatening the life of the...

Rep. John Carter (R-Tx), a member of the GOP House Leadership and a former judge, informed us in a blogger conference call that he will be hosting a virtual townhall tonight at 7:30 p.m. Eastern and will be taking questions from members of the public. CSPAN will broadcast floor speeches covering the status of certain legislation on issues such as ACORN hearings, Obama's Czars, auditing the Federal Reserve, and the Democrat abuses in running the House of Representatives. After that, Rep. Carter will return to his office, fire up the web-cam and take questions from the public by email or...

Candidate for KY US Senate Dr. Rand Paul held a "Town Hall" meeting on the topic of Health Care. Although some questions from the audience delved into other unrelated topics. In the meeting he tried to get across his ideas for free-martket solutions to reforming Healthcare. Video of the event can be found here: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2231277

"A National Townhall on Health Care Reform" examines the moral, ethical, and financial dangers of President Obama's health care plan. Join our stellar lineup of Congressional leaders and policy experts as they dissect the dangers inherent in the President's proposed plan, and answer your questions on the President's plan and some alternative approaches.

This woman commented on my blog twice because she was offended I incorrectly labelled her a LaRouche Democrat. This a woman with a laundry list of left-wing lunacy long enough to circle the equator - and has made the Boston-area press because of it. But she's all bent out of shape 'cuz some little-known blog accidentally affiliates her with the LaRouchers. Whatever ...

This is footage of Dan Rostenkowski when trying to pass the "Catastrophic Health Act of 1989". I don't know if these people were called any of the names that we are being called now but these old folks were definatly upset. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qre7DzEtxyc&feature=fvw

Free People Need No Leader Throughout the summer’s town halls and protests, a passing question has been raised again and again by the media and their consorts: who is this movement’s “leader?� The assumption behind the question reveals something interesting about the questioners’ perspective. To ask this question, the questioner must believe that average people require a “leader� to tell them what they do and don’t want, what they must or mustn’t do and where they must or mustn’t do it. While it’s certainly true that we who resist federal intrusion into our every action must have representatives, free people...

The bounce from Barack Obama’s speech last week to Congress continues to amplify … to Obama’s detriment. Rasmussen now reports that opposition to ObamaCare has reached its highest level yet, at 56%, while only 43% support it. Majorities now believe that health care would get worse and more expensive under Obama’s overhaul of the American health-care system: Fifty-six percent (56%) of voters nationwide now oppose the health care reform proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the highest level of opposition yet measured and includes 44% who are Strongly Opposed. Just 43% now favor the proposal, including 24% who...

The San Diego County Sheriff's Department Tuesday responded to 10News' report about a new sonic weapon known as a Long Range Acoustic Device, or LRAD. The technology has been used in Iraq to control insurgents, and now it is in the sheriff's department's possession.On Monday, members of the American Civil Liberties Union spoke with 10News, and they expressed outrage that local law enforcement had the device and that they had brought it to recent town hall meetings in case things got out of hand. Kevin Keenan, of the ACLU, said, "We think that local law enforcement shouldn't be using military...

United States of America- All across the nation yesterday town hall meetings were bombarded with protesters wishing to express their displeasure with the presidents agenda for health care reform as well as his general disdain of individual liberty and property. Without the benefit of an audience with the head of the executive branch most of this anger was directed against local congressman. Despite this effort, however, many experts wonder how effective these demonstrations will be. This substantial query, it must be noted here, is in hard deference to the quality of these protesters. Many experts in the field are skeptical...

 

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Whatever your philosophy, there was something for almost everyone in Sen. Lindsey Graham’s performance Sunday at a town hall meeting at the University of South Carolina that drew more than 350. “I’m a free-market guy with a heart,” said Graham, a South Carolina Republican serving his second term in the Senate. Graham — using simple language and folksy stories about his upbringing, in which government handouts helped his struggling family — explained for almost two hours his complex political views on equally complex political issues.

Did the August town hall protests have an effect on Congress? Enough so that at least one Blue Dog Democrat admitted it convinced him to oppose the public option in the health-care overhaul bill. Rep. Mike Ross (D-AR) announced his opposition this morning, crediting his constituents for his moment of clarification: Rep. Mike Ross (D-Ark.), the Blue Dog congressman who battled with Democratic Party leaders for much of July before reaching an agreement on health-care reform legislation, said Tuesday that he could no longer back the government-insurance option included in the bill he voted for before the congressional recess. “I...

WASHINGTON -- The armies of "tea party" conservatives who packed town-hall meetings last month to oppose President's Obama's $1 trillion government healthcare plan are bringing their protest movement to the Capitol Saturday to urge its defeat. Those who thought the hundreds of April 15 tax-day rallies across the country were a flash-in-the-pan phenomenon had better think again. It is a grassroots movement that has been gathering strength ever since, fueled anew by pending bills in Congress to enact a historic expansion of the government's power over the nation's private healthcare system. The tea party's march on Washington will come three...

Here is video of a man being booed when he asked a question in Spanish at a town hall meeting. (Watch Video)

inspired by the DHS Report, and angry Townhall Mobs.

Here is video of a man named Scott Weber, who confronted Democrat Rep. Bill Pascrell of New Jersy at a Town Hall Meeting. He is interviewed about his experience on Fox & Friends. Weber's told Pascrell that the "Public Option" would lead to "socialized medicine" and is "positively un-American." Weber said the crowd was so raucous because Pascrell and other speakers had droned on, killing all the time, and the people attending became very restless. . . . (VIDEO)

Rep. says to journalist student "This is my town hall meeting, I set the rules."

Oath Keepers will be conducting a rally and ceremony in Washington DC on September 12. And they have a special guest: "Stewart Rhodes has invited David Hedrick to come to the 9-12 DC march as part of the Oath Keepers contingent, and to be a speaker at our dinner that same night, and David has accepted the invitation. We consider David’s action in calling out Congressman Baird on the violation of his oath to be an example of what needs to be done. Oaths should mean something, and when a public servant has violated his oath of office, he should...

Brian Baird Town Hall meeting Sept 2, 2009 this video is an exchange between a young conservative man and Rep. Baird became a little incensed at the way the young man personalized one key part of his statement. Brian Baird’s rebuttal was interesting in the sense he started to go to half-truths and painted an illusion that the Republican Party was the problem with debt. Because of the spin there is 2-minute segment that address the half-truths and bring some reality back to the issue. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYp0BetIZAE

Here is a collection of video footage taken over the past week or so. There were a lot of other events that took place. Vic Snyder didn't allow any media during his townhall debate, so the internet is the only place you will see footage of that event. Video 1 of the Tea Party Express in Little Rock,AR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP0A-cKJgWQ Video 2 of the Tea Party Express in Little Rock,AR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64rWOtRUmOg -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blanche Lincoln's Townhall at the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQj-PYgW8lYhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGlqsvMnsow -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vic Snyder's Townhall at University of Central Arkansas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLtXoNZHilkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6At0NHSFKs

Here is a collection of video footage taken over the past week or so. There were a lot of other events that took place. Vic Snyder didn't allow any media during his townhall debate, so the internet is the only place you will see footage of that event. Video 1 of the Tea Party Express in Little Rock,AR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP0A-cKJgWQ Video 2 of the Tea Party Express in Little Rock,AR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64rWOtRUmOg Blanche Lincoln's Townhall at the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQj-PYgW8lY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGlqsvMnsow Vic Snyder's Townhall at University of Central Arkansas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLtXoNZHilk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6At0NHSFKs

Here is video of a small business owner going "On the Record" that caused a "major uproar" at a town hall meeting when she voiced her opposition to ObamaCare. When she was done speaking the crowd cheered and it was clear that the majority of people agreed with her. The town hall part is also shown in the video right before the interview. (Watch Video)

Our president seems to believe himself more King than elected representative. Barack Obama has shown himself to be as despotic as George III through overly harsh taxation and forcing his will on the people. Like George used the Parliament, Obama is using Congress to assert his supremacy in a socialist empire. Now, Obama is inciting coercion by advising his followers to fight "Right-Wing Domestic Terrorists," which is anyone who disagrees with his proposed healthcare policy. On Patriot Day, one would "hope" that our President would encourage us to respectfully remember the victims of September 11, 2001, honor our brave soldiers...

ROCK HILL A hostile crowd greeted U.S. Rep. John Spratt in his home county Thursday night, filling a 700-seat hall to voice anger over far more than health-care reform. Many in the Rock Hill audience lashed out at illegal immigration, House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi and a federal government they say no longer deserves the trust of Americans. Outside, an overflow crowd of 200 listened on portable speakers. The loudest applause inside a packed Baxter Hood Center might have come when a Fort Mill man denounced Pelosi for one criticism of opponents of Democratic reform efforts. “One of the things...

A school security officer in Virginia who told a protester opposing President Obama's health-care plan that America is "no more" remains employed, but is now under investigation because of his statements, according to his school district. "I have to say, I've seen the video. We do not condone what the officer did say," Paul Regnier, the coordinator of communications and community relations for Fairfax County Public Schools told WND today. WND reported earlier when the YouTube video showing school Security Officer Wesley Cheeks Jr. objecting to a protest sign carried at a town-hall meeting held by Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va....

Tony Greenwich, Connecticut isn’t immune to the fear and loathing that has been seen at townhall meetings across the country during the Congressional recess this summer. Wall Street traders and their wives showed up fully charged to debate health care reform last night... It was a bit of a mob scene. At one point Congressman Jim Himes, who represent Greenwich in Congress, went out to speak to the fifty or so people locked out of the meeting because of space restrictions. He was escorted by 8 armed police officers. The Congressman was “rattled” by questions ... At one point the...

This video is unbelieveable! What an absolute arrogant jerk!!

In America, school security guards don't get to revise the First Amendment to suit their whims. Nobody does. But that's exactly what happened at a Reston town-hall meeting sponsored by Alexandria Democratic Rep. James P. Moran last week. Fairfax County Public School Security Officer Wesley Cheeks Jr. took it upon himself to decide that one sign -- among a panoply found outside the event -- crossed the line.

On the first page of your website you have a section that says something to the effect, “tell me what you think.” OK, here it is. How much longer do “we the people” have to sit out here and wait for you to do something? Where is your voice? Where is your spine? Why does a talk show host/entertainer have to do your job? Where is the leadership of the Republican Party in Congress? If the United States of America survives past 2009 it will certainly not be because the RNC and the congressional leadership stood firm and held news...

Congressman John Larson (D-CT) held a town hall meeting on Wednesday, September 2 in deep-blue West Hartford, CT at the Town Hall Auditorium. My husband "zelig" and I arrived about 45 minutes before the town hall started. As expected, there were two distinct groups rallying outside the Auditorium. Just like every rally we've ever attended, it was easy to find the folks on "our side": They were the ones with the American flags, the yellow Gadsden flags and the red and white-striped First U.S. Navy Jack flags... AND the homemade signs. The pro-ObamaCare crowd had their professionally printed full color...

The town halls are the first sign of life in average Americans in years and now that they are awake, the best is yet to come! FACT: American citizens taking their anger to town hall meetings across the country are NOT “right-wing racists” organized by “right-wing conspirators” aiming to “create a repeat of the 1994 election” that put Republicans in control of congress. They are just angry Americans…

THOUSAND OAKS -- A 65 year old man had his finger bitten off Wednesday evening at a health care rally in Thousand Oaks, according to the Ventura County Sheriff's Department. Sheriff's investigators were called to Hillcrest and Lynn Road at 7:26 p.m. About 100 protesters sponsored by MoveOn.org were having a rally supporting health care reform. A group of anti-health care reform protesters formed across the street. When someone from the pro-reform side crossed over to the anti-reform side, a fist fight ensued, which resulted in the man's pinky finger getting bitten off. It's believed the man was on the...