Two Key Details Emerge about Mob at Now Notorious Lloyd Doggett Town Hall
By: Blue Texan Sunday August 9, 2009 7:30 am
from:
http://oakhillgazette.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=73&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=2313&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1846&hn=oakhillgazette&he=.netA Gazette reporter was there to witness an unruly hollering mob of people disrupt the meeting and personally insult Congressman Doggett. Conservative cable news and talk radio stations around the country hailed the event as a spontaneous outbreak of opposition to proposed healthcare reform. But
it was later discovered that the Travis County Republican Party Chair had led an organizing effort to disrupt the event.......................
There's a lot of good reporting in this article -- but this exchange is really important.
Congressman Doggett stressed that opponents of healthcare reform are also the opponents of Social Security and Medicare, which he said have worked "very successfully."
He added: "Near the beginning of the session…because they were holding up all these Tenth Amendment signs, I was saying, ‘Well, if that's your attitude about health care, then I suppose you don't really support Social Security and Medicare,'" Doggett said. "And they said, ‘Yes, we don't. We don't think they're good.'"
At which point, Doggett said, it becomes more than just a healthcare issue.
"I just think this fanatical insistence on repealing Social Security and Medicare is not just about halting the healthcare bill that's up there, but it's about rolling back about 75 years of progress.
more:
http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/09/two-key-details-emerge-about-mob-at-now-notorious-lloyd-doggett-town-hall/more:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6258878&mesg_id=6258878
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