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One of hopefully many scenes from the August Health Care Rationing Grassroots Feedback Seminars.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 2nd, 2009 at 11:39 PM  | 

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Not one of my videos, but it should warm your heart. Via Instapundit, I present to you this delightful exercise where Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D, TX) gets some feedback from his constituents on health care rationing.

By the way, do you know how Republican TX-25 is?

It’s not. D+6. Doggett was apparently not expecting this level of mentoring from his employers.

Moe Lane

PS: Looks fun, doesn’t it?

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • djemi
  • bk

    and it was rock-solid safe for a Democratic. Jake Pickle held it for about 150 years I think. But after DeLay and company redistricted him it was tougher for him and he beat some Hispanic after that. He might have even had to move to get into a friendlier district – I don’t recall. I used to be in this creep’s district but thankfully we got shifted to the area now under Michael McCaul.

    It’s great to see the Dems get a dose of their own medicine. They love to disrupt conservative gatherings, using hired thugs as often as not. The groups who are mad at the Dems are truly grass roots from all appearances. Nice to see the silent majority not being so silent.

  • NeoKong

    Moe Lane

    PS: Looks fun, doesn?t it?

    I’ll give the guy some credit for standing among them.
    Other Democrats were calling the cops on senior citizens.
    The Code Pinkers never had a crowd like that on their best day.

  • bk

    Our districts are just as creative after DeLay got done with them as they were before under maps that Democrats drew.

    http://www.govtrack.us/congress/findyourreps.xpd?state=TX

    Austin got split up to make all the slots around here more competitive. Doggett has District 25 which starts at the south end of Austin and covers a large area without a huge concentration of population. The areas he has near Austin are growing and I suspect they are more conservative, so it could get tougher and tougher for him over time.

    We are now in District 10 which goes from the NE corner of Austin to the NW corner of Houston.

  • izoneguy

    Are the Tar & Feathers and the Pitchforks….
    Later in the year some flaming torches should enhance the mood.

  • Richard Mullins

    Before 2006 TX-28
    After 2006 TX-23

    That was when I was living at home in SE San Antonio, now i live in Spring and it TX-02.

  • Freedomlover

    you feel like there’s some hope, (darn, can’t use that word anymore),
    how about, fire out there. We need to keep the pressure on on all of them. Some of the original groups of Tea Parties are joining together for the National Recess Rally. Here’s a link:

    http://recessrally.com/

    I’m planning on going to my reps. office. If we all do, maybe they’ll start listening.

  • red4ever

    According to the liberal trolls on the Statesman website. Of course they would think that since the only way anyone shows up to support Liberal causes is when ACORN buses them in. The concept of honestly involved citizenry is foreign to them.

    When I lived in austin I was in Doggetts district before redistricting. I was still there after redistricting. Thanks alot.

  • nessa

    I had to buy one of Glenn Beck’s T Shirts, “Torches and Pitchforks, Protecting americans From Politicians since 1787″

  • Hera

    I hope to see scenes like this repeated again and again during the August recess.

  • Duke

    before ACORN starts the counter-protests? Considering the fact that Comrade Zero launched out of the Chicago Patronage Machine, morphed out of the organization created in the late ’20s by Al Capone, the conservative demonstrations could turn into riots. The left would like nothing better, al la “rules for radicals.”

  • IJB
  • briann

    I have seen Acorn “agitators” at a couple of events already. They are usually outnumbered, anywhere from 2-1 to 10-1.

    They have one guy with a camera and another will get in your face and try to start a fight. The attempts are so transparent that it’s pretty laughable.

    -Bri

  • red4ever

    In a statement he actually said everyone who protested was a Republican or Libertarian plant:
    http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/politics/index.html

    Also, he is still going to vote for the bill despite the overwhelming rejection by his constituents.

  • Ward_Off_Monkey

    of tarring and feathering as was done leading up to and during the American Revolution. It would send a strong message to those in Washington who would usurp the peoples’ rights, just as it did in the days of the Revolution. Take this account from “The Diary of John Rowe”, published by the Cambridge Press in 1895:

    On January 25, 1774 John Malcolm was put ?into a Cart, Tarr?d & feathered him ? carrying thro? the principals Streets of this Town with a halter about him, from thence to the Gallows & Returned thro? the Main Street making Great Noise & Huzzaing.?

    Applying this treatment to today’s Democrats and faux Republicans would not be a bad thing. As I said in response to Lamar Alexander’s announcement of support for Sotomayor, next time he comes to Knoxville a group of his constituents should tar and feather him and ride him out of town on a rail. That would be a good start but there are many more in Washington and in our statehouses that would benefit from the same treatment.

  • The_Gadfly
  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/08/01/a-rece/

  • popdaddy

    Fortunately, I live in the Western part of the Socialist Republic of Travis County Texas and am under the protection of Congressman Lamar Smith.
    Doggett is completely worthless, has never amounted to anything above a sure vote for any democrat wacko agenda item.

    I honestly cannot recall anything positive he has done for the core of old hippies that have continued to vote for him other than rant the old yellow dog socialist democrat yap of the day.

    I did contact his office last week on behalf of my 75 year old mother-in-law fighting cancer on MediCare. His staff person was totally unconcerned with the looming cuts in Medicare, rationing and The Moron’s desire for people like my mother-in-law to just take a pain pill.
    I sure wish I’d known about this little gathering over the weekend.