Posted on 08/03/2009 12:46:52 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, fresh off a rousing neighborhood meeting on health-care reform that ended with people chanting “just say no,” said this morning he’s more resolved than ever to seek congressional approval of health-care reforms.
The Austin Democrat said people who attended the gathering Saturday morning at a South Austin grocery store first heard him talk about why he favors change and then he took questions. Doggett said he subsequently said he wanted to talk one on one with crowd members interested in other issues, but that proved impossible because of deafening chants of “just say no.”
It was the din, Doggett said, that encouraged him to depart for a community event in Bastrop, where he said some in the Austin crowd followed. Later, he said, a few people opposed to Democratic health-care proposals showed up at a Democratic Party event in Bastrop.
Doggett said of his stop at the grocery store: “It wasn’t as if I wouldn’t listen and respond. They had their say; they just went a little too far.”
Separately, Doggett issued this statement today about Saturday’s event:
"This mob, sent by the local Republican and Libertarian parties, did not come just to be heard, but to deny others the right to be heard. And this appears to be part of a coordinated, nationwide effort. What could be more appropriate for the “party of no” than having its stalwarts drowning out the voices of their neighbors by screaming 'just say no!' Their fanatical insistence on repealing Social Security and Medicare is not just about halting health care reform but rolling back 75 years of progress. I am more committed than ever to win approval of legislation to offer more individual choice to access affordable health care. An effective public plan is essential to achieve that goal."
So “This mob, sent by the local Republican and Libertarian parties” are referred to COLLECTIVELY as “the party of no”.
Those of you in his district — please get on it!
He has been promised something much LARGER and more POWERFUL than just a post on a committee, he has a HUGE ego.
This calls for a hot batch or Tar and Feathers.
They sure are snarky. Vote him out in 2010.
I remember in 1984, when he ran against Phil Gramm for Senator, he seemed a bit light in the loafers. Does he still live with his mother?
He’s defining his opponent. Only in this case it is his constituents. I wonder how that will work.
Saying “NO” to the take over of this country is a good thing. Keep it up.
that’s it. BO promised them all something.
ARROGANT A-HOLE.
Since there is a movement around country to recall LOCAL pols. How do you do the same to Congress Critters.
By 2010 he'll have already helped in exterminating the senior citizens...some of whom obviously voted for him and/or his co-horts.
Isn’t he suppose to represent his constituents?
Ditto! That might change his little attitude to help him remember who he is suppose to represent.
True-believer -—in himself.
Arrogance.
Which was the election where Democrats trotted out a forged KKK membership card for Phil Gramm? Texas Monthly did an article exposing the hoax (although I think it led the reader through all of the suspicion until the very end when it cleared Phil of the charge).
Send him into the steet in nothing but tar and feathers, running for his life.
Texas ping
In his mind only those who voted for him.
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