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Rep Jared Polis (D, CO-02) swamped at not-town hall.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 8th, 2009 at 10:09 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Expected 30 at a sidewalk coffee place: got several hundred.

A few things to note:

  • No SEIU on hand, so everything stayed peaceful.
  • CO-02 is D+11 and includes the city of Boulder. They haven’t elected a Republican Congressman there since the 1970s. A front line in the 2010 election wars, it isn’t.
  • Man, but there are a lot of ticked-off old people out there who want to talk about why they don’t like the way Congress is handling the health-care situation.

Shame the Speaker of the House would rather blather on about swastika-wielding mobs – hey! She means the ticked-off old people, doesn’t she?

Moe Lane

PS: I think that Polis may be getting it, a little. Or at least he’s not a natural born damned fool who’d casually insult an entire voting demographic by calling them Nazi astroturfing shills.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • Robert A. Hahn

    Health Care Reform is dead. No matter whose polls the CongressCritters believe, no matter what they think is prompting all these people to show up at these events, they know one thing for sure: this is controversial. That’s all any politician needs to know about a subject in order to conclude that he’s against it and he wants it to go away. He doesn’t want to take a position on it and he certainly does not want to have to vote on it.

    You watch: when these guys get back to Washington, ‘health care reform’ will get dropped like a hot rock.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    …when I see its metaphorical head on a metaphorical stick. And even then I’ll still do the mirror test.

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  • mbecker908

  • Richard Mullins

    to persuade Congressman Polis, or that see to what came out. A little more open minded at the end. I’m really wondering how Gene Green(TX-29) little thing went since he complained that the majority of the people at his town hall were not from his district(I really need to find the part of it that in the story in Houston Chronicle Friday).

  • bs

    Really, I think the Dems are going to kiss O-butt and vote for it no matter what the constituents are saying. I truly think they will buy the “astroturfing” crap and claim that the public really & truly wants socialized medicine.

    They won’t know what hit them in 2010.

  • JohnRichardson

    at the Memphis townhall, linked in the RedHot section, either. I suspect after St. Louis the SEIU has worn out it welcome.

  • http://www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com SoFiMil

    Wasn’t it only a year ago during the primaries when the MSM couldn’t stop commenting upon (and complimenting) the American public’s engagement in the political process? So where’s the recognition for all those attending Tea Party and Health Con functions, who continue to engage in the political process? Why is the MSM no longer charmed? Oh, yeah…a year ago Obama also led in all the polls.

  • Ausonius

    Just like the Dems need to beware believing their own lying propaganda, we need to keep punching and counterpunching. I do not believe that Hell-th Care “Reform” is dead, until NObama blinks on it, which has not yet happened.

    Recall the overconfidence of the Ford Administration in the 1970′s in the campaign of 1976: they were supremely confident that all was well and going their way, and were blindsided by the results.

    Let us go for unconditional surrender – no prisoners! (i.e. compromises) – and hope the Dems cannibalize each other in the coming months.