More Dem Cowards Hiding Out from Voters: Delaware Senators Carper & Kaufman Refuse to Hold ObamaCare Town Hall Meetings
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on August 17, 2009
Like mangy, panicked rats racing to get off a sinking ship… take cover, Democrat congressional leaders!
And of course, this newsworthy information (the list of Democrats running for cover from their constituents on ObamaCare isn’t being discussed or acknowledged by the majority of journalists in the mainstream media… those anchors on the major networks are still in lock-step on the “Obama Road”).
The latest info I’ve found on “running scared” members of Congress is from Delaware. H/T to Pirates! Man Your Women — here’s a short portion of the excellent Pirates post:
Senators Carper and Kaufman are refusing to hold town hall meetings.
August 16, 2009
Sen. Tom Carper (D) and Sen. Ted Kaufman (D – non elected, hand picked by a Dem gov in her last days to replace Sen. Biden, who he worked for. Commonly believed to be keeping the seat warm for Biden’s son)
Cowards. Or: baby, caitiff, chicken heart, chicken liver, chicken, craven, cur, dastard, deserter, faint-of-heart, faintheart, fraidy-cat, funk, gutless, invertebrate, jellyfish, lily liver, malingerer, mouse, pessimist, poltroon, quitter, rabbit, recreant, scaredy cat, shirk, shirker, skulker, sneak, weakling, white liver, wimp, yellow belly, yellow.
Take your pick.
It seems as though the Senators from DE can’t face their constituents (which in Libland, it truly amazing, in itself).
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Recent town hall meeting have been “disruptive” and “unproductive”? Why? Did the people fail to drink the KoolAid on the way in? Did the happy gas piped into the room fail to work?
People are mad. And, they have every right to be. The government is going places that it was never supposed to go. They are spending money like it was water. They are doing a happy dance over our freedoms. And now, we are supposed to trust them with something as personal and as important as healthcare?
From Goodtimepolitics: List of Healthcare Town Hall Meetings Nationwide
Here’s a round-up of various cowardly Democrat leaders I posted last week, with lots of delicious videos and links: Runnin’ Scared: Democrats Not Handling ObamaCare Town Hall Protests Well… Some Hiding Out from Voters (video)
Encore video below… because when something’s this wickedly delightful, I can’t resist posting it again to “share the laughter”:
Hey There, Obama (Drink the Kool Aid)
For my favorite lyrics from this parody, check out the previous post: Video Parody: Hey There, Obama (Drink the Kool Aid)
H/T to Nice Deb for finding this well-crafted, spot-on music video parody of the Plain White T’s “Hey, There, Delilah.”
Related reading on ObamaCare news:
Delaware Online: Lawmakers opt out of shouting matches
Moe Lane: Rep. Bishop, Boswell having health care meetings allllll the way over *there*
Jeffrey Jena, Big Hollywood: Stand Up Notes From Flyover Country: Sen. Sherrod Brown is Why We’re Angry, My Liberal Friends
El Campeador’s Weblog: Reader Report from San Francisco Rally Against Obamacare…LOOK! More “uncivil” MOBSTERS Madame’s Boxer and Pelosi. Madame’s meant in the most “uncivil” way….
American Spectator: Support For Health Care Bill Drops Even Further Without Gov’t Plan and Gallup Finds Independents Sympathize With Protesters
Greg Gutfeld, Big Hollywood: Thank You, Old People
GayPatriot: Reader Report from San Francisco Rally Against Obamacare and Ma’am Boxer has time for a book signing, but “nothing scheduled” on health care reform
John C. Phillips, Big Hollywood: ObamaCare: From the People Who Brought You the Post Office
Hot Air: Democrat: I don’t care what my constituents think, I’m voting for single-payer and Rasmussen: 54% would prefer no bill to current ObamaCare proposals and Cornyn to Obama: Shut down Snitch Central and Blue on blue: Helen Thomas hammers Gibbs on Obama’s phony town hall and Obama: Government health care will be like, um, the post office
American Thinker: Orthopedic Surgeons respond to Obama on amputation comment
Yahoo, Reuters: Liberal Democrats unhappy with healthcare shift
Frugal Café Blog Zone: “You Can Bet Our Astro-Turf…” San Francisco Tea Party Against Health Care (video) and San Francisco’s Pelosi, Feinstein, Boxer Refuse to Host ObamaCare Town Hall Meetings… Citizens Will Hold Their Own Mock Town Hall Meeting and Candle Vigil (UPDATE: Boxer’s Book Tour) and Dr. Obama’s in the House: I’m Not a Doctor, but I Play One on TV (video) and Phony-Baloney Democrat Astro-Turfing: Dems Hiring Fake ObamaCare Protesters from Ads Placed on Craigs List; UPDATE, Little Girl with Political Connections to POTUS? and Trojan Horses and Bold-Faced Lies: Obama’s Own Words on Eliminating Private Health Insurance (video) and Rush Limbaugh: Town Hall ObamaCare Protests, “All Statist” Insurance, and “Obama The Joker” Posters and Fake Democrat Astro-turf Protesting: Is Code Pink “Too-Well Dressed”? Or Just “Too Pink”? Only Sen. Babs Boxer Knows for Sure…
PA Pundits – International: The Etiquette Czar’s Rules For Patriotic Protest
New York Times: Health Debate Fails to Ignite Obama’s Grass Roots
The Reluctant Optimist: Health Care Town Halls
Suitably Flip: ObamaCare 1% More Popular Than HillaryCare During Death Throes
The Anchoress, First Things: Science Czars & Healthcare; When Life is devalued…UPDATED
Dave’s World: Welcome to the world of government rationing: Health Care for Dummies
Scared Monkeys: Nancy Pelosi – Hypocrite … In 2006 Pelosi was a fan of Disruptors when it was against the Iraq War
The Clampdown: Obama Ripped By American College Of Surgeons
The Substratum: RHINOCare – The Senate Finance Committee Puts Lipstick On A Pig. Rush Limbaugh And Other Concerned Parties Are Counting On The Blue Dogs And Ignoring The Elephant In The Room
Pink Elephant Pundit: Skeptic Joins the Town Hall Train: Providing a Backbone for the Good Guys
Doug Powers, Michelle Malkin: Town hall time for Obama and ‘the mob’ and Did ‘Cash for Clunkers’ just put Obamacare on the junk heap?
Patterico’s Pontifications: Deceiver.com on Pelosi and Obama: Goal Is to Eliminate Private Health Insurance
American Elephants: The Democrats Really, Really Don’t Want to Hear From You About Nationalized Health Care
Chris Burgard, Big Hollywood: Dear Mr. President, Please Don’t Kill My Kids
Dave Lucas: Not On MY Corner!
Right Voices: Specter: “I could be somewhere else. I don’t get any extra pay — I don’t have any requirement to be here.”
Alberto de la Cruz, Babalú Blog, an island on the net without a bearded dictator: That was then, this is now…
NewsBusters: Harry Reid Will Only Do Town Halls By Telephone, Media Mum
Real Clear Politics: Dem Congressman: Town Hall Protesters Are “Political Terrorist[s]”
Gateway Pundit: Shocker! Little Girl Who Asked Obama Question at New Hampshire Town Hall Was a Plant
Greg Gutfeld, Big Hollywood: Daily Gut: Plants
Temple of Mut: WE ARE NOT THE STAGERS! Leftist Activists try create faux imagery to squash our dissent.
The Hoosierpundit: Baron Hill Repeats “Political Terrorists” Line
GayPatriot: AP Finds Anti-ObamaCare Protests Represent Genuine Grassroots
Jim Blazsik: Breitbart.tv » ‘06 Flashback: Pelosi Tells Anti-War Protesters ‘I’m a Fan of Disruptors’
Steven Crowder, Big Hollywood: Lonewolf Diaries: It’s Time to Flip the Bird to Tyranny–Flag Yourself! and Throwing Down With the Governator
JustOneMinute: Because Children Are Useful Props Except When You Don’t Want Them To Be
Just Americans Making Ethical Statements Weblog: Surprise: Young Girl @ Obama TownHall in NH was a Plant!
Atlas Shrugs: Tampa, St. Louis …Obama’s Union Thugs are Beating People up at Town Hall Meetings
Sharp Right Turn: White House tries to intimidate on healthcare opposition
Fire Andrea Mitchell!: Cowardly Democrats Tim Bishop and Alan Grayson now holding townhalls at union offices and Exposed: The little “mean signs girl” Julia Hall from today’s New Hampshire Townhall
Gateway Pundit: RAW VIDEO!!…..TEA PARTY PROTESTERS ATTACKED– 1 Black Conservative Seriously Hurt in St. Louis!… 6 Arrested Including SEIU Members
Goodtimepolitics: A Video Obama Doesn’t Want Americans To See (ACORN and local police)
Rep. Thaddeus G. McCotter (R-MI) , Big Hollywood: A Health Dirge Night: President Obama’s Lefty Health Club Band
Seth Swirsky, Big Hollywood: It’s No Wonder People Are Angry!
No Sheeples Here: Mistrust Those In Whom The Urge To Punish Is Strong
Michelle Malkin: Democrat Rep. Betsy Markey, etiquette czarina and Profile in congressional cowardice and White House public option ploy: A trial balloon, not a white flag and Another Democrat takes refuge at a union headquarters and Congressional Fugitive Watch: Has your lawmaker absconded today? and Pretty sneaky, Congresswoman Bean and Winds of change in San Francisco and Obamacare/OFA stage props in Houston: “One is a Che Guevara fan and the other lies about being a doctor.” and Hey, Rep. Betsy Markey: You’re invited to a town hall meeting you refuse to hold! and Breaking: Finance Committee to drop end-of-life provision and Selective outrage of the MSM and Billie Jean King: Obama’s distortions are “cute” and Obama’s town hall performance and Democrats now taking refuge at SEIU offices and Little girl at Obama town hall has not-so-random political connections and NBC: “YES WE DID” and What’s the SEIU up to now?; Another Democrat calls Obamacare protesters “political terrorists” and Help out the Internet snitch brigade: Report on fishy health czar office and The smell of desperation: White House unleashes on Internet critics and Health care czar’s office calls for Internet snitch brigade and Video: No, you can’t just ram Obamacare through “fast” and Yes, they are talking about a government takeover of health care
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I have an idea for those constituents whose representatives refuse to confront them or hold town meetings open to everyone. Give them an ultimatum. Either they meet with their constituents on such a such a date at such and such location OR his or her constituents will meet there without him or her to start a recall petition if he or she doesn’t show up. I come from Massachusetts and Barney Frank is my representative and I agree with almost NOTHING in his politics… but he had the guts to hold a meeting and was not afraid to take some heat and even gave some back. If he refused to hold a meeting then I would have started it myself in my state. It’s one thing when you, as an individual disagree with your congressman, it’s another when they hide from the people they are supposed to represent.
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Barney Frank showed up to show off to his lberals in congress on calling the people names, He is a very creepy guy and need to be voted out.
No wonder Virginia’s Federal Officers Nye, Webb and Warner are doing their best to duck their constituents. Especially Webb and Warner. They want no public forum in which the angry voters have an opportunity to express themselves with the cameras rolling. Better to hide behind conference calls, emails, sequestered letters and “private meetings”
Listen! Senators Webb and Warner (and Congressman Nye), your fellow citizens are mad as hell about the (Democrats’) Pay to Play Fraud. Specifically the: health care scam, bailout scam, stimulus package scam, Cap and Trade, take over of GM and Chrysler, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the trashing of the peoples retirement funds, the devastating losses in our colleges and universities endowment funds, the Bush-Clinton-Mena narcotics cabal, the Diebold electronic vote machine fraudulent elections, the phony war on drugs, the phony war in Iraq, shipment of entire US manufacturing plants to China, (see what economist Robert Higgs and Ron Paul, MD have to say about these outrageous Chicago/Little Rock/Crawford Pay to Play scams).
No wonder you don’t want open town hall meetings!
The People’s Right to Petition the Government for Redress of Grievances
America’s elected officials are hiding out. Especially the Democrats. They want no public forum in which the angry voters have an opportunity to express themselves with the cameras rolling. Better to hide behind conference calls, emails, sequestered letters and “private meetings”
Listen! Elected officals, your fellow citizens are mad as hell about the (Democrats’) Pay to Play Fraud. Specifically the: health care scam, bailout scam, stimulus package scam, Cap and Trade, take over of GM and Chrysler, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the trashing of the peoples retirement funds, the devastating losses in our colleges and universities endowment funds, the Bush-Clinton-Mena narcotics cabal, the Diebold electronic vote machine fraudulent elections, the phony war on drugs, the phony war in Iraq, shipment of entire US manufacturing plants to China, (see what economist Robert Higgs and Ron Paul, MD have to say about these outrageous Chicago/Little Rock/Crawford Pay to Play scams).
No wonder you don’t want open town hall meetings!