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NY Democrat Faces Raucous Town Hall as He Tries to Make Case Against "Tort Reform" - Video 10/6/09
Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | October 7, 2009 | BrianinMO

Posted on 10/07/2009 6:24:12 AM PDT by Federalist Patriot

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. . . . (VIDEO)

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To: Federalist Patriot

That Congresscritter is SOOOOOOOOO full of BS:

http://tlrfoundation.com/beta/files/Texas_Tort_Reform_Report_2008.pdf


21 posted on 10/07/2009 8:52:17 AM PDT by radioone (Alinskys rules for radicals: Ridicule is a better tactic than argument.)
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To: parsifal

I haven’t “been played.” I’ve been to McAllen, and know the score. The numbers of illegal foreign nationals living in that community and feeding from the public trough massively skew any possible numbers you could have.

But, to whatever extent the numbers you cite are correct, you’ve made the main point quite clearly anyway that McAllen is not a normal case. Which means, of course, that the leftwing Democrat in question is using an extreme case to try and impose his socialist views and policies on the rest of the country.

Extreme examples make for very bad public policy, no matter how you slice it.


22 posted on 10/07/2009 8:56:22 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (Darkness has no response to light, except to flee.)
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To: EternalVigilance

Have you read the article?

parsy, who is curious


23 posted on 10/07/2009 10:42:40 AM PDT by parsifal (Abatis: Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside)
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