When you can’t stand the heat…
…hold your congressional town hall in a children’s hospital to avoid tough questions.
It’s the Democrat human shield strategy at work again. Kenneth Wallis in Little Rock reports on Rep. Vic Snyder’s plan to evade constituent accountability:
Just called Arkansas Children’s Hospital 501-364-1100 to confirm and get details. Vic Snyder will have a townhall meeting at 1pm at the Chairman’s Hall in the Sturgis Building Wednesday 080509. I asked them about the radio announcement stating the meeting was at 2pm. Bonnie from Arkansas Children’s Hospital stated that it was a 2pm and that it has been changed to 1pm. I also confirmed that the event would be open to the public. It has been recommended that people not go to protest in anger due to the fact that there will be ill children and their families at the hospital. Snyder decided to hide in a hosptial when he realized that he would face angry constituents.
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Didn’t Hamas and Hezbollah do this very same thing? Curious…
What? He didn’t pick a corner of a church hosting a fallen Veteran’s funeral?
Not a dime’s worth of difference between them and the Democrats.
…well it won’t be a problem since tea party folks don’t protest in anger.
Snyder is one cowardly, slimy politico . . . I can’t believe the gutless pig is actually doing this.
Don’t scream, don’t yell, just ask him why he wants to kill your mother!
Signs are quiet…
Sorry wothtless worms! Can’t stand the heat can you?
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This Admin is like keystone cops pie in the face slapstick stupid.
Seriously after this hopey changey fiasco is over dems are going to be looking at plastic surgery to change their looks completely.
Not surprising..
Vic is the Poster Child for Welfare for Votes, Pandering Politician. You add up the Multi-generational Welfare Receipiants, ACORN Registration Fraud fueled rolls, and the numerous Illegal Aliens that have been allowed to vote up in Yell County… THAT is how this guy gets re-elected over and over..
Congratulations! Republican disruption tactics are preventing Democratic Congressmen from meeting with their constituents.
The link was not to a news item — newspaper logo notwithstanding. It was to a blog entry by a Republican operative (check out his web page). His description may or may not be accurate.
I don’t like Nazi analogies, but it is a tactic of less scrupulous political groups to organize “private citizens” to disrupt normal political events held by the opposition.
lgm said:
Your lame attempt at associating DemoRat tactics with Conservatives and their disgust with everything Liberal is just that,Lame. Lets do the A.C.O.R.N. litmus test lol.
And ACORN, SEIU, and Apolo have been using the tactic for years.
IT IS ABOUT TIME WE DO!
Get him in the parking lot.
Spineless wimps!!!! Campaigning for reelection will be fun. Your elected official is too scared to meet you in person, but he/she will fight hard for you in DC.
News flash: those Republicans ARE the Dem Congressmen’s constituents.
LGM, in every event that I show up to I will be able to show my keys. Same can not be said for protesters at Republican events!
On August 5th, 2009 at 1:55 pm, lgm said:
Surprise! You just described what your party does all of the time. ACORN, SEIU………
Unfortunately for you we can read and have started to delve into this travesty of a bill. If you are courageous enough just skim this healthcare over view at http://www.lc.org/ where they do a good job of laying out the theft of our liberties and freedom. Take your time they use big words sometimes.
This is actually the ideal location. Now the attendees can ask him how long these kids will be waiting for treatment under Obamacare. And at what stage will some bureaucrat decide that this child is too sick to treat and this child can get treatment.
Let the parents of these sick children know what Obama care has in store for their children.
1pm on a Weds….. Their other tactic is to make sure the only people who will attend this will be typical loser liberals that have no job.
The responsible adult conservatives will need to be at work at that time.
Dead on! Let the explaining begin.
I have no idea what the hell you’re talking about….. but I’ve got no issue with disrupting Democrats. Like was already said. Dems and liberals have been and continue to do it to this day. The gloves are off and there are no rules.
No need to make a scene to be heard. I would ask him though per Obama’s own words which of these children should only be given pain medication and not treatment.
A civil discourse can take place and this venue can be used to your advantage.
How many of these children would not have even been born if the liberals healthcare plan is enacted?
Isn’t the mere presence of the children in this hospital proof that the current system works?
How many children from other parts of the world are here being treated?
All but the recent 5.5% that are experiencing first-hand, the jobs created or saved by the radical in chief.
lgm said:
Your argument (that opposition to nationalized health care is some sort of Soros-like, centrally planned phenomenon) aside…would YOU still go to the baby milk factory in order to get your point across to this congressman?
I meant children’s hospital.
When they back off, we’ll back off. They won’t so neither will we. End of story.
Those with their children in the hospital should know about this Sec. 1713, Pg. 768, Lines 3-5 – Nurse Home Visit Services – Service #1: “Improving
maternal or child health and pregnancy outcomes or increasing birth intervals between
pregnancies.” Compulsory ABORTIONS?
This bill is so invasive that the old USSR would be envious of the power the government wants to take over our lives.
calmly ask this congresscritter if he and his family will be forced into this medicare for all program. if not, why do it, as it is obviously inferior care for our poor and children. working folks have health insurance, just as he has, and elderly have medicare, and poor have medicaid, so just who is this program set up to cover, illegal aliens? why would any gubmint official want to increase the gubmint roles of medicare/medicaid/va healthcare when all of those are broke and bankrupting the nation and the states? but quietly, you mob.
spineless sobs…did anyone expect different?
kinda early for the chronic unemployed and 420 crowd isn’t it, unless of course the Rep. is handing out munchies to go along with his BS.
You mean acting like this?
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/04/this-is-what-mob-rule-looks-like/
Point of order lgm. A “townhall meeting” is an event for an elected representative to meet with their constituents. A constituent is anyone in their district.
I find it interesting that you view these townhalls as political events instead of non-political fact finding and information sharing….hmmmmm a grain of truth…
lgm Go frack yourself.
After the last 8 years you have no room to talk.
LOL. All of a sudden, lgm hates community organizing, and opposes the right to assemble to petition government for a redress of grievances.
“I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face,” - B.H. Obama, September 2008.
Or, I guess, it would have been more accurate to say, lgm thinks the idea of citizens assembling to petition government for a redress of grievance smacks of Nazism.
What. A. Tool. (A hilarious, hilarious tool).
i know there are a few military folks posting here.
I’ve read in a multiple blogs this week, about flying the flag “upside-down” as a signal of distress.
I like the idea and I think it’ will be INSTANTLY understood – even if the viewer driving by my house doesn’t know about the “distress” meaning.
My question: is this just for military use – or – would doing this be disrespectful?
What does this mean? That constituents can’t question anyone at an open forum?
I live in Dr. Vic Snyder’s district – which is controlled by the Little Rock Liberal Democrat machine – and what makes me sick is Dr. Snyder & his elitist ilk! At least there will be a Conservative Republican candidate to oppose him next yr.
No it is not a sign of disrespect. The country is in distress and the flag flying upside down is your proclamation that you are in a distress situation.
Site for you: http://www.usflag.org/flagetiquette.html
As I have posted before:
The Silent Majority is Silent No More
Here’s the link to Rep. Snyder’s Congressional page, dated Aug 5th, stating that he & Rep Ross will be at the AR Children’s Hosp from 2-3 pm.
Well, lgm, at last you have said something we can agree upon, at least in general. I do not like Nazi analogies either. However, the elected officials are responsible to ALL THE PEOPLE in their district, & if some of them wish to protest, it is their right and moral obligation to do so. Remember, your gal Hillary stated something like every American has the right to agree or disagree with any administration. There are no distinctions about Republicans or Democrats, and neither hold exclusive rights to protest. I understand you are a school teacher; a very fine & important profession. It distresses me to determine that, after reading many of your posts, I cannot hold any opinion other than you are intellectually bankrupt and obtusely diputatious. Your arguments generally lack even a modicum of rigor, and have the illlogical constuct of a highly opininated & completely uninformed teenager. In effect, you sound like a sulking child. As an educated adult, you should and can do better.
That may not be a bad place afterall. What better place to question about abortions and neonatal care?
lgm fell face first into the KoolAid jug.He is coming unraveled just like the left.You can almost hear the quiver in what he is writing.He can’t be that naive to not believe the left has used these tactics for ever.
Are you contending that the people there are NOT constituents? Proof, please.
Soooo….???
I like fascist history as it applies to this time and BIG BRO. Many, many degrees of fit. People SHOULD VOCALLY AND ANGRILY EXPRESS THEIR OPPOSITION TO CONTROL OVER THEIR LIVES. History in Italy and Germany would have been quite different, if they had.
Or do you disagree?
YES!!! Plus the “cost/benefit” calculation of what a child’s life is worth.
Hey Desert Lover…. You said it right!!
I wonder what factor they will use when calculating the QALYs of the children in that hospital. If the best those children can hope for is a life limited by handicap or pain, Obama’s plan would have them out on the street, because their care is not “cost effective”.
sonofdy said (#33):
All Americans can find some common ground if we search hard enough: Battlestar Galactica! You’re a toaster.
These Republican tactics are genius! Why didn’t they use these tactics to . . . you know . . . win the election?
Could it be that these folks ARE simply passionate about this issue?
It’s stupid to accuse these people of following marching orders – even if someone did suggest that they show up to protest.
Liberal analogies to Bush as Hitler notwithstanding, and as a former member of SEIU, and no pun intended: physician, heal thyself. Blinders are not supposed to wrap around your head: the cover the eyes and the ears, and there is a tourniquet effect on your brain that should be addressed…
Once you get past the obligatory and egregious projection of the liberals, you can see that the only groups practicing anything that could even remotely be called “Nazi tactics” are the liberal Democrats.
Do you really want a list?
If the best the Democrats can do is imitate Hamas, Hezbollah, and the theocracy in Iran, then they are only hanging themselves in the Court of Public Opinion.
How to build a consensus:
1) If you don’t allow dissent there can be no disagreement.
2) If you take away their guns there can be no dissent.
3) Count on the stupid to do your bidding.
Arkansan and Vic Snyder constituant here..
I didn’t get to attend (Since this meeting was strategically Moved to a time and place to avoid tax Paying workers from showing up in droves)..but I saw the highlights on TV..and several people, lots of older Arkansans showed up..
It was heated..and basically the two politicians (Vic Snyder and Mike Ross) were at a loss for words….even Mike Ross spent moments dejected with his head down… but the highlight was when they both said they would not sign a bill that contained a Single Payer Provision..(Of course Vic Snyder has been caught in lie after lie..and basically wants this).. the crowd erupted with applause. When the noise came down.. many said they didn’t believe them and they had lost ALL their trust.
Oh, One (1) Obama Worshipping loser did show up to yell out his dying devotion to his lord and Savior Adolph Obama.. to only get laughter and one person yelling out.. “Get a Job!!”. hahahahaha
Thx / t