Posted on 08/08/2010 6:57:44 AM PDT by La Lydia
CHARLOTTE COURT HOUSE, VA. -- The crowds that have been showing up for Democratic Rep. Tom Perriello's town halls have been smaller and more polite than the angry throngs he saw during last August's raucous congressional recess. Catcalls about socialism and death panels have given way to substantive and pointed questions -- about the intricacies of the new health-care law and financial regulations, finding alternative energy sources...Most of all, people want to talk about the economy.
Virginia's largely rural 5th Congressional District, first represented in Congress by James Madison, is a good place to see what Democrats across the country are up against...
Gale-force outrage -- both the real kind and the kind manufactured for television -- has faded this August. There is still the occasional outburst: On Saturday, the Lynchburg Tea Party Patriots hastily called a rally outside a Perriello town hall in Fork Union to demand that he vote against $26 billion in aid to state and local governments when the House reconvenes...
But when the shouting dies down, it becomes possible to hear something else, something Democrats know is an even greater threat to them this fall. With polls consistently showing that dissatisfaction with Washington is at or near record levels, another word for what voters are feeling right now might be "frustration," or "despair," or "disgust."...
So Democratic House leaders sent their members home for August with pocket cards of talking points headlined "WE CAN'T GO BACK" and a list of weekly messages to push...Last week was "Make It in America" week, to be followed by "Protecting Social Security Week," "Consumer Protection Week," "Small Business Week" and "Troops & Veterans Week." The week of Sept. 6 will bring a reprise of "Make It in America" week....
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This year we get even.
Hello Washington Post! The reason why large angry crowds aren’t at town hall meetings anymore is because Democrat politicians stopped doing them.
Maybe the voters have figured out that it doesn’t matter if they scream and yell at these democrats they are going to do wha they want. Now we get to do what we want and throw the bums out.
Mine has not either but we know it is a waste of time to try to reason with these fanatics. November is going to be a complete wipe out for the Crats. I am holding my fire until the election. I predict that the Crats go down in flames and we get rid of the communists in 12. I think Palin is the next President.
My anger is still growing. I have no idea what this author is talking about.
Amen. Throw them and the RINOs out. FOR GOOD!
Gale-force outrage.....has faded this August.
______________________________________________________________No it hasn’t. It’s gone incognito and will be revealed on November 2, 2010.
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Last year we got mad.
This year we get even.
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EXCELLENT!
The Post can tell itself whatever it wants - the truth is the truth. Americans’ unhappiness has not diminished and if the politicians and the media refuse to acknowledge it that’s up to them, I guess.
What I think it is, is something called resolve.
My high school age niece engaged me in a bit of an argument a few days ago. She’s a great kid, but as so many of us at that age, she has a childlike view on life, meaning that she is pretty liberal at her age.
She demanded to know of me why these Tea Parties didn’t show up when Bush was in office. I reminded her that we tossed the Republicans for blowing money in the 2006 elections. She wondered why no tea parties in 2008. Again, I reminded her that we had an ELECTION, and that is where people registered their anger.
She wonders why we had Tea Parties in 2009, after Obama took office and I explained to her that it was because it was NOT an election year and we wanted to be heard. I reminded her that the rallies early this spring were to stop HC legislation in advance of this year’s election. Now, you see few rallies. This is because we are resolute. We have our game plan and will execute it.
I tried to explain to her that Pelosi & Reid, without a Democrat as president were not as dangerous (given the veto threat), but that those clowns with an Obama in the White House are absolutely toxic.
She’s a kid. She doesn’t get it. I can’t make her understand we could be looking at inflation and taxes that will kill her future.
She doesn’t understand that we’re fighting for her. :(
People have figured out that yelling at town halls changes nothing. The media labels you as a racist and violent ‘Teabaggers’. When the politicians are voted out of office, they will get the message in November.
Democrats are so completely micromanaged that they are nothing but Obama automatons now. Instead of having his teleprompter they are reading from pocket cards. The WaPo does it's best to boost enthusiasm for the Dems. I pray it doesn't work. We are still outraged.
Was there ever a doubt that Karen has ever known what she was talking about? I labeled her a bubble head from the first time I saw her on C-Span many years ago.
I constantly remind my four young adult children that I am fighting for them and their generation. They are all Rush babies and completely conservative in their viewpoints, however, I cannot get them to understand that they should be as mad as I am.
She will be fine as soon as she gets a job and starts paying taxes. That shock tends to concentrate the mind.
If she is making good grades in school, try the story about fairness being dolled out by the teacher. Maybe after reflecting on this story, the left side of the brain might not hold as much sway (or whatever the side is)
An economics professor gives his students a stark lesson in socialism:
An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single student, but had once failed an entire class.
The students insisted that socialism worked since no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism.”
“All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade.”
After the first test the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who had studied hard were upset while the students who had studied very little were happy.
But, as the second test rolled around, the students who had studied little studied even less and the ones who had studied hard decided that since they couldn’t make an A, they also studied less. The second Test average was a D.
No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around the average grade was an F.
The scores never increased as bickering, blame, name calling, all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for anyone else.
To their great surprise all failed. The professor told them that socialism would ultimately fail because the harder people try to succeed the greater their reward (capitalism) but when a government takes all the reward away (socialism) no one will try or succeed.
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