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VIDEO: Durbin On Town Halls: "This Is Clearly Being Orchestrated"
Real Clear Politics ^ | August 9, 2009 | Real Clear Politics

Posted on 08/09/2009 9:09:03 AM PDT by ianschwartz

CNN: The Senate’s second-ranking Democrat slammed recent town hall protests Sunday as organized disruptions of the democratic process.

“We have these screaming groups on either side. That isn't helpful. Let's be honest about this. Town meetings are not bean bag, I've had hundreds of them and sometimes folks get upset. And that's part of America, part of our process,” Sen. Dick Durbin told CNN’s John King on “State of the Union.”

“But this is clearly being orchestrated and these folks have instructions. They come down from a Texas lobbyist in Washington…" he said.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; angrymob; bhohealthcare; communityorganizer; dickdurbin; townhalls
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To: ianschwartz
“But this is clearly being orchestrated and these folks have instructions. --------------------- Hmmmmm, like maybe a community organizer is involved? Imagine that? Something like that has never happened before in our country. /s
61 posted on 08/09/2009 10:26:28 AM PDT by Joan Kerrey (Experience 1930's Germany. Report your neighbor. flag@whitehouse.gov)
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To: GOPJ
fall in line - and kiss up to any corrupt dem who has the power to give out “favors”.

That's the real danger here. You'll be at the mercy of some civil servant with all the compassion of an IRS agent. God forbid if you actually have a real malpractice case can you sue the government? Yeah, you're dying of cancer and the rationing board denies you treatment, but they have an appeals process. Just fill out a form the size of a 1040 with accompanying schedules. No thanks. Right now I have a doctor I know, if I run short on a perscription he'll help me out with some samples. If I need bloodwork or something he'll know how to code it so insurance will cover it. Try reasoning with your local IRS agent about a misplaced decimal, that's what Obamacare will be.

62 posted on 08/09/2009 10:29:17 AM PDT by YankeeReb
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To: noblejones
But the identical, union-printed signs, tee-shirts and bullhorns are “natural”?

These people live in alternate universes. Thousands of hand-made signs, every one unique and individual, is a sign of a "manufactured" protest, while identical union-printed signs indicate a "grass roots" initiative. To believe this you must have the intellect of a toadstool.

63 posted on 08/09/2009 10:29:38 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: PapaBear3625
Which is the whole point of Democrat politics, particularly Chicago-style Dem politics -- to create an environment where nobody can do anything without Dem politicians and their friends getting a piece of the action.

"Pay to play" when your mother's life is at stake could bring in big bucks. And anyone who thinks dems don't sell favors has been living in Podunk ...paying to play is the Chicago Way...

64 posted on 08/09/2009 10:30:00 AM PDT by GOPJ (ACORN - paid protesters ...The White House has an enemies list. Are you on it? (yet?)
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To: GOPJ
WE’LL be left with one option to get the medical care we need for a loved one - fall in line - and kiss up to any corrupt dem who has the power to give out “favors”. ---------------------- Hey now. It's a new game now. You need to learn the new rules. Now one pays to play. Chicago rules apply now. All one needs to do to play in this game is find the right contact, vote the right way, join the right party and have funds available to "contribute" to the right campaigns. Blacks pay nothing, hispanics 50% off, Whites 1% off, Jews full price, no discount. /s
65 posted on 08/09/2009 10:33:44 AM PDT by Joan Kerrey (Experience 1930's Germany. Report your neighbor. flag@whitehouse.gov)
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To: ianschwartz
“But this is clearly being orchestrated and these folks have instructions. ----------------------- And the problem with this is what??????? Obama built his career via community organizing and proudly put it on his resume. Only Obama's methods were 100% more disruptive and costly.
66 posted on 08/09/2009 10:37:50 AM PDT by Joan Kerrey (Experience 1930's Germany. Report your neighbor. flag@whitehouse.gov)
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To: tflabo
accusing us of being on the take from insurance companies?

Correct me if I'm wrong, isn't big insurance falling in like with Zer0care along with big Pharma? I think Glenn Beck did a show on that. These companies see the writing on the wall and want a seat at the table. If this is true than the whole talking point about protests orchestrated by big insurance is CRAP. It's the old strategy of Marxists playing on the ignorance of the people and of course the MSM does NO investigation but rather they just repeat the talking point. It's no wonder people are reaching the boiling point.

67 posted on 08/09/2009 10:38:57 AM PDT by YankeeReb
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To: Texas Mulerider
Atlas Shrugged is the “anti-Marxist”.

Dem health care will have all the responsiveness of any bureaucracy where everyone keeps their job no matter how unhappy the customer.

Because we'll go, from being "customers who pay for a service" to “better be grateful” numbers seeking medical care.

They'll say “you don't like it - where you gonna go?”. And that's that. Take it or do without. And you better be grateful or Nurse Ratched will fly you over the cuckoo's nest... Because she has the power - and she's not putting up with any crap.

68 posted on 08/09/2009 10:39:03 AM PDT by GOPJ (ACORN - paid protesters ...The White House has an enemies list. Are you on it? (yet?)
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To: ianschwartz

If 0’b allows the election in 2010 the RATS are toast, good-bye, toodle-loo, been pure hell to know ya.


69 posted on 08/09/2009 10:42:09 AM PDT by Waco (Libs exhale too much)
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To: ianschwartz

70 posted on 08/09/2009 10:43:00 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the next one...)
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To: 1000 silverlings
Bribery to move up in the line - but those bribes will be exposed for those Nurse Ratched doesn't like.

Those she does like won't have to pay.

When the corrupt are awash with corruption money, the biggest payoff can be degradation of the human spirit.

Think "favoritism" - but on the level where our children will die - not just on the level where dems get a pass and we don't...

71 posted on 08/09/2009 10:55:50 AM PDT by GOPJ (ACORN - paid protesters ...The White House has an enemies list. Are you on it? (yet?)
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To: El Gato

That was my thought also, his blame bush campaign is over.


72 posted on 08/09/2009 11:07:37 AM PDT by eyedigress
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To: Mad Dawgg

That is AWESOME! And now its stolen.


73 posted on 08/09/2009 11:13:05 AM PDT by abishai
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To: b4its2late

DICK Durbin is exactly that.....

This is NOT being orchestrated.

Voters need to remove this Dick and others in 2010.


74 posted on 08/09/2009 11:50:24 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: henry_reardon
This is the problem the fascist dems have, it’s totally out of their comfort zone and they don’t know how to react. In a way it’s similar to their reaction when Sarah Palin resigned.

Great point there. Little Dick is my senator and I'm familiar with the way he behaves. Like most other democrats, he assumes the whole world operates by remote control, with some elite committee somewhere pre-planning everything for them. Free Citizens actually pissed at their representatives in congress are outside his cloistered experience. He is confused and doesn't know what to do. So he accuses them, in essence, of being democrats. He uses the term "teabaggers" a lot, which merely displays his utter ignorance of the entire situation. We have seen durbin crack before. His "Pol Pot and others" speech in the senate, which still hasn't been satisfactorily explained, got him in some hot water and made it necessary for him to do penance as "the veteran's advocate" in the senate to keep his job. Whatever it is we are doing, we must be doing it right. We need to keep it up, and maybe even turn up the volume a little. It isn't even on '3' yet.

75 posted on 08/09/2009 12:18:11 PM PDT by Seven plus One
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To: bushwon

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Or the postings on Craig’s List for activists to be PAID to support health care at the town hall meetings....(for real)
>>

They run in even the smallest towns too. Must have cost millions.


76 posted on 08/09/2009 1:29:18 PM PDT by noblejones (Obama rules!)
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To: ianschwartz

“But this is clearly being orchestrated and these folks have instructions. They come down from a Chicago Community
Activist in Washington…” he said.


77 posted on 08/09/2009 1:33:53 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: ExTexasRedhead; ridesthemiles

Not orchestrated in the least bit. Sick of government taking our money and giving it to those that don’t want to work for it.


78 posted on 08/09/2009 1:44:47 PM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: noblejones; All

Or the postings on Craig’s List for activists to be PAID to support health care at the town hall meetings....(for real)
>>

They run in even the smallest towns too. Must have cost millions.


I got an email from barackobama.com/Organizing for America to go to my GOP congressman’s office this week to tell them I support health care reform efforts. Step-by-step guide...no manufactured activism there....


79 posted on 08/09/2009 2:03:03 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, just wait till it is free! "~ PJ O'Rourke)
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To: YankeeReb
Try reasoning with your local IRS agent about a misplaced decimal, that's what Obamacare will be.

Mix in the worst HMO you've ever heard of and you've got the combination...

80 posted on 08/09/2009 2:21:33 PM PDT by GOPJ (ACORN - paid protesters ...The White House has an enemies list. Are you on it? (yet?)
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