Yup. The Republitard way.

I gots mine, screw the rest of you.

Schedule them at 4:30 P.M.

You know — dinnertime.

Well, if it was really about health care and these protesters actually understood what is being said, then maybe it would matter that they get to stand up and rant. Let’s be honest, these grandstanders are using this health care issue as a cover for their racism. They listen to Limbaugh and Glenn Beck and get all fired up, not realizing that they’re just pawns and puppets. I’ll bet you not half of them could tell you what they’re protesting. Except that a black man is running THEIR country, or course.

Keep Government bureaucrats away from Medicare!!!

You know, if they only allowed access to people who don’t currently have healthcare, chances are they’d get a more receptive crowd. Or, they could at the very least ask for a show of hands at the start of the event of people who currently have the gubmint paying for their meds and other medical care.

there are hundreds of ways the Dems could handle this, but as usual they’ll let the GOP take the initiative, allow the retarded brownshirts take over the media message and then, when they realize how badly they’ve blown it, they’ll come back in the 11th hour on the defensive (see also: “Iraq, Invasion of”).

“OK, all of you covered by Medicare, sit your ass down and shut your ass up. Now, those of you getting SS Disability sit your ass down and shut your ass up. And with that, we can have an honest discussion amongst the remaining 35%”

I, for one, am glad the unions are getting involved at future town hall meetings. I am hoping we have reached the tipping point of Democrats being complicit in their own demise. Yes, I know it’s far-fetched, but a grrl can dream, can’t she?

It would be funny as hell to start up a chant of , “End Medicare NOW , no socialized medicine!” , just to see how many Teageezers shit themselves.

And if you really want to screw with the Teageezers, schedule the event during a “Matlock” marathon.

Teageezers! I love that.

That frontmost guy’s pleated denim pants are pretty skeery too.

Or schedule them during the early bird special time.

But Granny is wearing the gang colors of Teh Great Orange Satan!

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Apparently the new thing among teabaggers is to yell “Liar!” at the Democratic Congressmen whenever they open their mouths. It seems a perfect opportunity to bamboozle said teabaggers with one of those logic puzzles involving the person who always lies.

We should play on a fear that plagues old people far worse than euthanasia. We should all call our elderly parents and tell them that if we catch them teabagging, we’re going have them declared incompetent, stick them in a nursing home and never, ever, visit them ever again.

Check out Sara’s post on Orcinus on “Fascism: Are We There Yet.”

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2…..e-yet.html

Liz Cheney at the RedState Gathering in Atlanta.

Perhaps future town hall meetings could have an entry fee: you can only get in if you DON’T have/show a SOCIAL Security card.

Weird… For once I find myself *more* sympathetic to the people with utterly idiotic concerns than the ones with genuine ones.

Worried expanded health care coverage will let the government kill you? Okay, you’re a paranoid idiot who’s been lied to, I understand that, and feel sorry for you having bought that.

Worried that expanding health care coverage will mean longer wait times to see a doctor, longer lines at the pharmacy, or in some other way slightly more hassle for you as uninsured people are suddenly able to see doctors, you’re a selfish asshole and I find you morally irresponsible, even though I know you’re mostly just scared that you may lose what you have to others.

In neither case do I especially respect these fears, though I respect even less the pricks who are busy scaring old people to maintain their profits. But it’s hard not to look at the latter group and see at least an awareness that your exclusive *privilege* may be watered down as it becomes a *right* for everyone.

You know, T, I really didn’t care that Soylent Green is people, until you had to go and post a picture of the ingredients.

It would be funny as hell to start up a chant of , “End Medicare NOW , no socialized medicine!” , just to see how many Teageezers shit themselves.

I would reverse the order in the chant, so it’s “No socialized medicine; end Medicare now.”

The first phrase should suck them in; the second might make them say “wha???”

Here ya go:

http://www.stopmedicare.org/

If we euthanize all the old people, how will we know that it’s a good morning and we’re welcome to Walmart?

Ha! Great site.

What does legendary basketball coach John Wooden have against socialized death farms? He is scary though, all that yelling and practicing and yelling.

My 85-year-old Mom and her buddies STILL lament “Murder She Wrote” leaving the air. If Obama knew what the hell he was doing, he’d schedule alternating Matlock and Murder She Wrote marathons until the end of the recess. Even El Rushbo couldn’t scare the teageezers outta the house.

Oh, my, a hearty laugh at this post, Mr. TBogg. Thanks for that.

Yeah–ha-ha, yuk yuk.

But the major news outlets are all–ALL–reporting this Astroturf as thought it’s real genuine grassroots rage. And most of the major news outlets are reporting the Republicans’ complete bullshit using Krugman’s famous “Shape of Earth: Views Differ” formula.

So go ahead and laugh, laugh, laugh at the deluded old people. You can keep right on chuckling through next spring when you get your next health-insurance renewal notice–and see that your premium has tripled.

ha fucking ha

Let’s call this one Alztroturf (dried up yellow grassroots with a memory problem).

Q. Are you sure you can tell the difference between the teabaggers bussed into a town hall and the actual constituents?

A. Depends.

That’s the second time in the last two days I’ve heard “Volunteers”. Maybe we can get Marty Balin and Paul Kantner to get a cease and desist order against its use in right wing propaganda videos.

“No socialized medicine; end Medicare now.”

Perfect. Be sure and bring a camera because I want to see the reaction from these demonstrators.

And? What ya gonna do about it?

Marty Balin and Paul Kantner should be eligible for Medicare by now.

I like this. Let’s develop that theme:

“As a hard-working, productive citizen, I am tired of paying FICA and Medicare taxes to support all of these unproductive, unemployed old people. The Bible says ‘he who will not work, shall not eat’ so if these people want to eat, they need to get jobs. There are plenty of jobs available, especially if we round up and deport the millions of illegal aliens who are currently taking work away from these American citizens. I’m sure those old ladies know how to clean houses. Those old guys can get jobs mowing lawns and harvesting the fruit and vegetable crops. Medicare and Social Security are Socialist programs and I’m tired of paying for Socialism and supporting non-working people. I work, my wife works, we both intend to keep working until we die and so should all of the people here in this room.”

Indeed they are. Grace is even older, she will be 70 this October.

My 85-year-old Mom and her buddies STILL lament “Murder She Wrote” leaving the air.

On Real Time last night, Bill Maher said, “I haven’t seen old white people this upset since they cancelled Murder She Wrote.”

Where’s my goshdarn fruit cup?

Most people on Medicare think Ed McMahon sold it to them.

Substituted prunes tonight.

I’m feeling a little guilty about indulging in age jokes.

Actually, we need to reach these people. They are very vulnerable and scared in general about…being old.

The tougher ones are sayin’ yeah, well I paid my taxes and my dues so I deserve medicare etc. Folks around here vote down school bills all the time because their kids are all growed up and they’ve “done their share”. How do we appeal to them? My folks are all atwitter about Obama and the country going in the toilet. They just have no idea that Bush is the one who left without flushing.

Bugs me.

So OK, no really, is Murder She Wrote on right now? where’d everybody go?

How about town hall meetings at highschools school will be starting soon.

Yes we need to remind them that FDR a rich guy convinced America to create Social Security in the first place.

My dad cannot stand FDR. My dear father likes to vote as though he is as rich as FDR. He is not.

I enjoy good snark but have not witnessed any in this post. It is no more appropriate to smear seniors based on the actions of their worst representatives than it would be to similarly pass judgment on teens or young adults.

We can’t convince everybody however we can try to go to local Town Halls to show our support.

How they see us:

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/n…..99157.html

Shorter town hall protesters:

What do we want?

To be fucked in the ass by the same greed mongers who pay Rush Limbaugh half a billion dollars to brainwash us into loving it!

When do we want it?

NOW!

ratfood, I’m 71, and I certainly don’t take it personally. It’s true, though, that there are vulnerable elderly people who are genuinely scared and deserve understanding. I think the most angry, beefy, fist-shaking, door-thumping wingers, however, are a little younger and less vulnerable and are coming from a different mental place entirely.

Since I am old I have to tell you that I get the funniest jokes about old people from my friends. Getting old in many ways is funny and when nothing else works, you laugh.

If we don’t fight back body for body, word for word, shout for shout we are doomed.

Lying down and taking the high road will lose this one.

At this point, WE THE PEOPLE (the 76%) AND The President need to become strident and push back.

And the President needs to call out the national guard to defend and protect EVERY TOWN HALL MEETING IMMEDIATELY!

No guns, no knives, no bottles, just like Fillmore and Winderland.

And no bused in phonies. ID with Zip code at the door to get in.

Wanna yell and scream, outside, across the street, two blocks down in that caged pen with no toilets or water.

NEXT!?!?!

“when nothing else works, you laugh”. Actually, I don’t laugh at all when it doesn’t work, I laugh with joy when it does work occasionally.

Yeah, I sorta slapped myself around on that very point.

And no bused in phonies. ID with Zip code at the door to get in.

Sounds good to me, no ACORN, SEIU, Right or Left organizations.

Lets just throw freedom of assembly out of the Constitution while we are at it.

Hysterical post, Tbogg!

I live in Denver, where 2 people were both tossed out AND arrested for the crime of being not a supporter of Bush when Bush came to rally his base at a supposedly “open event” during his presidency. Their true crime was having an anti-war bumper sticker. I didn’t hear any of the “freedom and liberty” folks get their tighty whitey’s in a bunch over that particular event re: freedom of assembly.

As usual with the wingers, what is illegal, anticonstitutional, etc is strictly based on what Rushbo says it is; otherwise, meh.

Every health care reform meeting and discussion should begin with “The AARP is supporting health care reform because…” Also, Medicare is a successful government run program also emphatically opposed by republicans with the same heinous words: socialism, etc… I get so tired of the libs talking in wordy phrases which have lost their audience before they get to the end. I am also, frustrated by the reports of Obama’s reaction to these wingnuts as well as the mush he spews on health care reform. Whatever happened to “plain English”?

Just shut down all the Country Kitchen Buffets and they’ll be helpless..

“Elfin nitwit” is the best description I’ve heard of Loesch yet. Why this screeching woman is taken seriously by anyone is beyond me. Her website is a joke — she throws up random posts all day but doesn’t ever allow comments, thereby shielding herself from any sort of debate or viewpoints that run contrary to her own. Most recently it seems she’s just discovered Photoshop and spends her days covering photos in 20-point LOLspeak like some sort of retarded Jackson Pollock.