Trip To Ire Land
By Mitch Berg
What a wonderful, civil country we’d have if it weren’t for all those deranged wingnuts making all those townhall meetings so dang uncivil.
It started during Bachmann’s introductory remarks when she said, “Let’s not destroy the greatest health care system the world has ever known.” That sparked a chorus of boos that was quickly drowned out by cheers.
“Participatory democracy is alive and well in America,” Republican Rep. Michael Burgess, a physician from Texas who was Bachmann’s guest at the meeting, wryly observed.
The capacity crowd of about 450 in the school auditorium was decidedly pro-Bachmann. An estimated 400 more watched the meeting on closed-circuit television in the school cafeteria.
People packed the aisles, waiting to get to microphones to question — or lecture — the two-term congresswoman.
When angry shouting matches broke out, Bachmann didn’t join in. She calmly and patiently listened to her critics, and when the audience shouted
them down, she asked her supporters to let them speak.
While cheers and jeers frequently interrupted the meeting, it was not as rowdy as some other town halls around the nation earlier this month. Unlike some of her congressional colleagues, Bachmann managed to keep her temper when confronted by angry protesters.
One might have expected the local left to disgrace themselves with their boorish behavior; rabid conspiracymongering and rage-honing has become a cottage industry among Bachmann’s regional detractors. Bachmann Derangement was alive and “well” long before Sarah Palin was even elected governor. She is proof that there is nothing the left hates worse than one of their supposed constituents – a woman, a minority – who goes apostate on them.
I’d love to hear from people who were there.
August 28th, 2009 at 8:37 am
“cheers…decidedly pro-Bachmann….People packed the aisles…calmly and patiently listened to her critics…asked her supporters to let them speak…Bachmann managed to keep her temper when confronted by angry protesters.”
Wow, Mitch, your unattributed block quote has convinced Angryclown. Bachmann is A-OK, despite having a bad case of the crazy eyes.
Why do the proponents of increased access to affordable healthcare hate America?
August 28th, 2009 at 9:18 am
It’s attributed; the link is to the PiPress’ story.
And if the PiPress acknowledges the existence of boorish behavior from lefties, it means they were shooting spitballs and mooning.
August 28th, 2009 at 9:19 am
Minnesotans have a thing for crazy eyes. I mean, didja ever see Paul Wellstone?
August 28th, 2009 at 9:24 am
Crazy eyes? Bachmann has nothing on Nancy Pelosi.
August 28th, 2009 at 9:27 am
Were Eva, teh peeve, or the clown in the audience? KSTP showed several DFLers in a spit flying rage hectoring a rather calm Bachman. The short, balding, fat man with the enormous glasses on KSTP sprang to mind as the prototypical angry clown.
August 28th, 2009 at 10:24 am
Oh man, and there was that one guy with the AR-15 slung on his shoulder carrying a BACHMANN=HITLER=SOCIALISM=KENYA sign and wearing his Timothy-McVeigh-Liberty-Tree-Tyrant-Blood shirt screaming about Bachmann’s birth certificate. WHAAAT? That never happened? Well never mind, I’m sure no charges would have been filed anyway.
August 28th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Letter in today’s St Paul paper. Congress wants to run our health care, yet A-Klo can’t even set up a tele-conference correctly.
August 28th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Yes Chuck. Amy pulled the plug on me last Sunday. It’s called health care town hall rationing.
August 28th, 2009 at 11:01 am
I think she deserves major props for actually having the courage of her convictions in meeting with her constituents and critics face-to-face. Our two Senators, not so much.
August 28th, 2009 at 11:03 am
Link doesn’t work. Here’s a paragraph Mitch mysteriously left out:
“The congresswoman is an outspoken critic of President Barack Obama’s plan to overhaul health care, and when audience members attacked her for opposing the president’s proposals, her supporters often shouted them down.”
So right-wingers are foaming at the mouth, shouting people down in St. Paul, just like everywhere else. Good to know.
August 28th, 2009 at 11:12 am
Hee, hee. It galls you that Republicans are growing a set, doesn’t it Asswipe!
August 28th, 2009 at 11:14 am
Shouting people down in St. Paul and breaking Democrat office windows in Denver.
Oh wait…
August 28th, 2009 at 11:15 am
I’m sure no charges would have been filed anyway.
If he had a valid Minnesota permit to carry, and he violated no laws (such as brandishing or acting in a threatening manner, which would have gotten him mau-maued by cops and gotten his permit and firearms confiscated forthwith)?
Why do you stalinists hate law-abiding citizens so much?
August 28th, 2009 at 11:16 am
Clownie, would you like to watch the video of Tom Tancredo and the thoughtful, open minded reception he got? How about a few Ann Coulter clips? Left-wingers are such an open-minded, tolerant group.
August 28th, 2009 at 11:24 am
That the party that brought us campus speech codes and hit and run pie attacks on conservative speakers and “spontaneous” disruptions of conservative speakers and last-minute institutional banning of conservative events and siccing union goons on conservative dissenters dares to complain about people getting upset (but, so far, NEVER illegally so) about feeling disenfranchised and silenced in the
ObamessiahcareKennedycare debate proves how intellectually and logically vacant they are.I’m not saying that these “liberals” act like a bunch of closet totalitarians. I AM saying that these are the people that totalitarians need to take “peaceful” control.
August 28th, 2009 at 11:37 am
Right Mitch, the lady who attempted to bring up Single Payor (civily) who was shouted down by a chorus of ‘No”, I mean, she was deranged.
The people who’ve shown up at Democratic Representative’s town halls and shouted others down, were all (or even most) of those deranged Bachman haters too?
Oliver Stone’s got nothing on you.
August 28th, 2009 at 11:38 am
The audience featured another lying leftist “Dr.”.
You may have noticed both newspapers feature the rantings of “Dr.” Ilya Gorodisher, of Stillwater.
Dr. Gorodisher isn’t a liar, in the way that Bubba Clinton never had sex “with that woman”.
Ilya Gorodisher
scientist, 3M
http://www.plaxo.com/directory/profile/201863712353/d4b163fc/Ilya/Gorodisher
August 28th, 2009 at 11:40 am
Say AssClown, it’s lunchtime out there….shit tacos again today?
HAHAAHAAaaa!
August 28th, 2009 at 11:46 am
Pen,
I decry ALL incivility. But it’s intensely disingenuous to say that the most dedicated of Bachmann’s opponents arent’ a particular breed of insane.
August 28th, 2009 at 11:58 am
“Bachmann’s opponents arent’ a particular breed of insane.”
Teh peevee won’t understand Mitch. I’m sure they all behave perfectly “normal” when they are at peevee’s annual moonbat barbecue and assdance.
August 28th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Pen,
So have you spoken Truth to Power to Rep. Bachmann yet?
August 28th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
I suspect Ms. Bachmann will make a State Fair appearance on the NARN. A golden opportunity for Peev to excercize his own couragous brand of free speech.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
“have you spoken Truth to Power to Rep. Bachmann yet?”
HAHA!
August 28th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Pee running down your leg when you meet the object of your hatred is could only be defined as truth by peev.