Posted on 08/07/2013 5:33:03 PM PDT by mdittmar
It's been four years since protests of the president's health care agenda boiled over in town hall meetings around the country.
The summer of 2009 marked the rise of the Tea Party movement and set in motion the GOP takeover of the House of Representatives the following year.
Groups from all over the political spectrum are hoping to recapture some of that energy this month.
'A Boiling Point'?
Before August 2009, town hall meetings — gatherings where members of Congress check in with constituents back home — used to be guaranteed snoozers.
But in Michigan that month, Rep. John Dingell, a Democrat, was confronted by a man who pushed his disabled son's wheelchair up to the podium.
"You are a fraud, and you're sentencing this person to death under the Obama plan," the man said.
In Florida, an overflow crowd chanted, "Hear our voice!" outside of Rep. Kathy Castor's town hall meeting. Inside, it was just as chaotic as the Democrat struggled to talk over chants and jeers.
And at a meeting in Pennsylvania, then-Sen. Arlen Specter, who had earlier switched to the Democratic Party, was essentially told he was going to hell for supporting the president's health care plan.
Clips from these events replayed on YouTube and cable news throughout the August recess.
Mike Wagner, an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin, says the shoutfests "really helped create the impression that the public en masse had reached a boiling point."
"It was the case that a lot of people had reached a boiling point, especially members of the Tea Party," he adds, "but there were plenty more people who were not enraged in the summer of 2009."
Those people, however, don't tend to show up at town hall meetings, Wagner says.
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You can bet the union knuckledraggers are already stocking up on Louisville Sluggers and brass knuckles in preparation for the 2014 “elections”.
“It was the case that a lot of people had reached a boiling point, especially members of the Tea Party,” he adds, “but there were plenty more people who were enraged in the summer of 2009 that didn’t get to any townhall meetings.”
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We are still HERE jerkwad, and if you thought we were
pissed then, just wait and see.
Sadly the joke was on us. They created enough Baraqqi/Bernanke/Geithner minibucks to fund entitlements to buy the 2012 election.
And the markets still continue to swallow them at unprecedented levels.
And the markets still continue to swallow them at unprecedented levels.
This will eventually end when those Barry Bucks come home to roost and inflation takes your money.
I agree, and obviously if we knew WHEN we’d both get richer than Soros.
But this has gone on FAR LONGER than I ever believed it would and who knows how many more years?
The spark is still there. The bastards don’t have the guts to show up at a town hall this time, especially after we’ve learned that they and their aides will be subsidized at 75% for their healthcare.
BINGO.
The neo-commies will simply not hold them.
Then the mouthpiece media will report "TEA Party loses interest; no-show in Townhall meetings."
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