2009.10.29
And the masses gathered ... all 10 of them
The Tea Party planned a huge "flash mob" today to protest the rollout of the new health care reform bill by House Democrats.
It didn't turn out quite as planned. About 10 protesters showed up, according to Talking Points Memo. As one participant said, "If this is organized, we suck."
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what a sarcastic title, but it doesnt suprise me from the lib rt..
the tea party has plans but it isnt for today rt..
Comment by pammala — October 29, 2009 @ 1:12 pm
That's probably because these responsible people actually work instead of expect government handouts. 10....about the number of rational Democratic Senators who will derail this bill.
Comment by Jim — October 29, 2009 @ 1:34 pm
Pelosi is insane. Whatever happened to LOWERING premiums for people who have insurance now?
This isn't about providing health care folks. It never has been. It is about control.
Comment by T Witten — October 29, 2009 @ 2:02 pm
#2 - Jim hit it on the head. Conservatives have a hard time organizing protests on weekdays...they're all at work.
Comment by Patrick — October 29, 2009 @ 2:05 pm
@3...Witten
Control of WHAT? The conservatives have been screaming "it's all about control" for months now. I'd like to know exactly what they think is trying to be controlled?
Give us some specific examples of what is trying to be "controlled". Republicans want to "control" Congress, The White House and the Supreme Court. Why shouldn't we all be up in arms about that "control"?
Comment by Will — October 29, 2009 @ 2:26 pm
Flash Mobbing is a bad idea for people that actually don't spend all day with their faces glued to the screens of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. Also mid afternoon on a weekday? I don't know many unemployed tea partiers! What a bad idea. This has "Punk'd" written all over it. Gotta be a liberal set up.
Comment by Walker — October 29, 2009 @ 2:46 pm
Here is an example of flash mob...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdg-b08uWRc
Pretty hilarious. Maybe the TP's can storm the hallways of the Congressional offices. THEY ARE public space...
Comment by Walker — October 29, 2009 @ 2:53 pm
This health care bill looks like a diaster from a financial and health stand point.
Comment by Patt — October 29, 2009 @ 4:00 pm
"Control of WHAT?"
Hmmm...1/6th of our ENTIRE economy, run by the people who have bankrupted Medicare and Social Security. Is that enough for you?
Say you have a rather important disagreement with the President (Iraq war, Gitmo, 0bamaCare, etc). If the government CONTROLS whether or not YOU, or your family receives life-saving treatments...are you going to be so eager to speak out against them?
Would you make waves if you had Cancer and you needed a special treatment to get better...and you were DEPENDENT upon the government to ALLOW it?
Who cant see the conflict here?
Comment by T Witten — October 29, 2009 @ 4:00 pm
Goes to show how fast the right wingers just burn out fast from their fear based,half baked ideas.
Funny story I think.
Comment by Bill Hudson — October 29, 2009 @ 4:55 pm
Democrats, sadly, are pushing for socialized medicine when a growing number of people don't want it, and when there are so many other effective things they could do, that they will not for political reasons, such as tort reform.
This is all about power for Democrats and nothing about concern about America's health.
Comment by Suzie — October 29, 2009 @ 5:50 pm
Rest assured, if the turn out was 1000, the event would have never been reported in the RT!
Comment by John R — October 29, 2009 @ 5:55 pm
#11 Another growing number of us do, very badly, it is very long over due and yes it has every thing to do with America's health. The GOP has become a party of NO. What have they offered?
Thanks but no thanks.
Comment by Bill Hudson — October 29, 2009 @ 6:02 pm
T Witten...
I'll say the same thing to you that I did to GFK in another thread. During the 1930's when SS was implemented, the average life expectancy for a male or female was not nearly as long as it is today. I doubt that you or anyone else could have forseen the advances that took place that have created longer lifespans for people. To blame it on "the government" is shallow at best.
As for going against whoever is in office if I disagree with them...if it's a Democrat...I've gone against them and if its a Republican, I've gone against them too. If I think you're wrong, I don't give a rat's hind foot what party you're affiliated with.
And by the way, insurance companies deny treatment every day of the year for things they don't feel are necessary. Tell me how that's any better.
Comment by Will — October 29, 2009 @ 6:15 pm
"#2 - Jim hit it on the head. Conservatives have a hard time organizing protests on weekdays...they're all at work."
Sorry, teabaggers and conservatives have had weekday rallies with lots of people.
Comment by gdad — October 29, 2009 @ 7:19 pm
Dan is playing his assigned role perfectly. Downplay the numbers of "dissidents" at every opportunity. Straight from the Bolshevik Manifesto, 1917.
Comment by Suzie — October 29, 2009 @ 7:45 pm
#12 - And if it was tens of thousands and held in DC, the White House would say, "Event? What event? We knew nothing about it."
Oh, wait, they already did that.
Comment by Patrick — October 29, 2009 @ 7:51 pm
@13 the republicans have actually offered several options/suggestion but per the links I have posted several times, it has been proven that the democrats have not allowed any input by their opposition..it is a fact.
Comment by pammala — October 29, 2009 @ 8:06 pm
control of your healthcare
control of your electricity
control of your internet
control of your airwaves
control of your banks
control of your jobs
control of your children
what else you do need
this guy is a loser ~ go home to chicago
Comment by pammala — October 29, 2009 @ 8:09 pm
@18
That's a lie.
http://www.slate.com/id/2223023/
Comment by Art Hill — October 29, 2009 @ 8:30 pm
#20 - Gee, it was only yesterday that I heard a Republican Senator say they've offered several options and have been ignored.
I wonder who's lying?
Comment by Patrick — October 29, 2009 @ 9:00 pm
@21
I wonder. Feel free to post all the rebuttal links you wish.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/64877-gopers-impatient-on-healthcare-alternative#at
Comment by Art Hill — October 29, 2009 @ 10:23 pm
Facts are like Kryptonite to a liberal. Bama care will be disasterous for this country if passed.
Comment by Jim W. — October 30, 2009 @ 1:18 am
I love pammala.
Comment by Glen Franklin Koontz — October 30, 2009 @ 9:01 am
@22 ~ Start with the horse's mouth.
http://www.gop.gov/solutions/healthcare
Comment by Uptheriver — October 30, 2009 @ 9:38 am
obamacare is anti-freedom, anti-liberty and anti-American.
Comment by Glen Franklin Koontz — October 30, 2009 @ 11:28 am
Its funny with the GOP, they just leave silly little things out. On their web site yesterday as to what they are proposing (which means delay, delay) they let out the older folks,guess they do not count.
I wonder if some of those on the right had to put up their house for sell to pay for the cost of staying alive if they would think the same way?
#26 you are not doing any good for your side to say our President is anti-American, somehow that does not sound right.He won you lost get over it. We still have another 3 more years, maybe 7 years to clean up the mess.
Comment by Bill Hudson — October 30, 2009 @ 11:52 am
@25
Wherrre's the bill??
(Apologies to Clara Peller)
Comment by Art Hill — October 30, 2009 @ 12:18 pm
@27 He won you lost get over it
take your own advice and get over the gore loss..lol
Comment by pammala — October 30, 2009 @ 12:23 pm
29 My, my, what a difference but yes that was a while ago sense then we have moved on and all kinds of things have been done.
Try to maybe look at it maybe this way, do you remember Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Cambridge Police Sergeant James Crowley and President Barack Obama all sat to have a beer. Well just yesterday the Professor and Jim Crowley met at a bar to have another beer and talk. The Point is, instead of trying to input fear and how different one side or the other is maybe we should sit down and stop the yelling and talk. The western civilization will not come breaking down because of it but maybe build a foundation to it.
Comment by Bill Hudson — October 30, 2009 @ 12:46 pm
@20
no it isnt a lie Art, watch this and learn something...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD_YOlUBoIk
Comment by pammala — October 30, 2009 @ 4:17 pm
Goes to show how fast the right wingers just burn out fast from their fear based,half baked ideas.
Funny story I think.
Comment by Bill Hudson — October 29, 2009 @ 4:55 pm
We'll see if you are still laughing in 2012.
Comment by Jim W. — October 31, 2009 @ 9:09 am
tea party had fun in friday, great turnout...got a lot of attention and positive feedback from traffic !!!!!
GO TEA-PARTIERS
Comment by pammala — November 1, 2009 @ 1:00 pm
That's great, Pammala. I wanted to come, but couldn't. Did the Roanoke Times send a reporter?
Comment by Suzie — November 1, 2009 @ 1:30 pm
@26...GFK
Yes..by all means...indeed.
Trying to get an improved healthcare system is the worst thing that I can ever imagine. What in the world is anyone thinking when they want to try to see that ordinary folks can have decent healthcare at an affordable price such that a catastrophic illness won't put the family in the street.
Good lord...what absolute lunacy.
Comment by Will — November 1, 2009 @ 1:41 pm
#32 By 20012 the GOP will really be in a hole. The infighting and the pull to the right and far right and the radical right you will be burning out your own party.So what you are doing is setting in place for another 4 more years of trying to clean up the mess that Bush and his bunch made.
Comment by Bill Hudson — November 1, 2009 @ 2:15 pm
Will:
The current problems with health care stem directly from government interference with markets. Better health care? Get the government out of it.
Comment by Glen Franklin Koontz — November 1, 2009 @ 3:59 pm
#37 Wrong again, and you win the doll on the wall.
The problem my good man is many people that even have insurance are having to sell their home or go very in very deep in dept. Your blindness to this shows your one sided views. We have tried the "get the government out of the market thing and guess what? It is not working. People are now not people but dollars signs and its working they are making hand over fist.
Comment by Bill Hudson — November 1, 2009 @ 4:25 pm
@33
I'm sure all three of them had a really nice time.
Looks like all is not well in teabagger-land.
http://washingtonindependent.com/63299/tea-party-activists-reject-pac-backed-tea-party-express
Comment by Art Hill — November 1, 2009 @ 4:50 pm