Town halls over the next few days

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You can see from the calendar shown here that Rep. Welch will be doing some public meetings over the next few days.

For those of you unfamiliar with recent events, there have been a lot of teabaggers angry mobs wingnuts showing up at public events to try to drown out the discussion and attack Democratic representatives at public events.  Some of this is getting a bit insane.

Which is why we need to be there, not just to provide a balance to the right wingers paid flacks for right wing organizations useful idiots who are there to shout people down, but to show them how things are handled with class.

Welch is supporting good and positive health care reform.  We need to show him that we’ve got his back, no matter what the crazies throw at him.

(Calendar courtesy Firedoglake)

23 thoughts on “Town halls over the next few days”

  1. What would your response be if Republicans characterized various protests from the Left over the years in that manner?  What happened to dissent being the purest form of patriotism, and all that?  Why are liberal demonstrations a grassroots expression of democracy, yet these implicate wingnuts and mob rule?

    I would be shocked if your position on the legitimacy of political expression is a function of the views being expressed.  I don’t recall that part of the First Amendment.

  2. The ‘right’ employs the favorite tactic of the ‘left’. Reaction from the opposite side is the same, call them names (wingnuts, teabaggers, mob, flacks, whiners and idiots). I guess some people are the same, immaterial on ‘what side of the fence’ they reside.

  4. Some broad and important issues about the size, scope and purpose of government are being debated in our state and nation.  Good points are to be made across the political spectrum.  It is regrettable that dissent (that patriotic impulse, remember?) on this site is frequently met, not with a thoughtful response making the opposite case, but with puerile name-calling.  Each resort to ad hominem attacks, each reference to teabagging (which most mature commentators admit is juvenile and passe by now) and the like, each insult directed toward “the opposition” instead of engagement in debate, merely undermines your broader credibility.

    If your positions are the wiser, then make that point persuasively.  Otherwise, this site risks becoming a echo chamber where insults are the coin of the realm.

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