I wrote yesterday that I did not like how this was going down and I don't.

We need to show up to these meetings. We don't have to act like them, but we need to be there for support. The media is doing a piss poor ass job in local coverage. What we are seeing is independent bloggers, etc., taking their footage and passing it along. We don't get the FULL STORY, because we are getting an edited version.

Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), whose health care town hall Saturday turned into a "mob scene" of shouting protesters, just summed up this whole thing. CNN anchor Rick Sanchez asked Doggett why, if public opinion polls are split down the middle, we're only hearing from opponents. I'll tell you, unless more Americans who are suffering under the insurance companies get out there and express their opinion, write their letter to the editor, call these talk shows -- if they don't get their message out the insurance companies will win in September and we just cannot let that happen.

This is what it is about.

If we don't let our voices be heard, the orchestrated chaos will continue and health care reform will lose.

Here is House Leader Steny Hoyer getting a "busta move" from the teabaggers:

"You're lying to me," said "Patriots" ringleader Don Jeror -- who previously organized the area Tea Party back in April, interestingly -- interrupting Hoyer. "Just because I don't have sophisticated language, I can recognize a liar when I see one." Jeror also declared: "Why would you guys try to stuff a health care bill down our throats in three to four weeks, when the President took six months to pick a dog for his kids?!"

And these groups are being bused in by "K" Street:

The DNC is out with a stinging rebuke of the tea party protesters who are disrupting health care town hall events hosted by Democratic members of Congress. "The Republicans and their allied groups - desperate after losing two consecutive elections and every major policy fight on Capitol Hill - are inciting angry mobs of a small number of rabid right wing extremists funded by K Street Lobbyists to disrupt thoughtful discussions about the future of health care in America taking place in Congressional Districts across the country," says DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse.

Here is a list of places the teabaggers are targeting and also more town hall meeting information here. These are our congress critters. As much as we may be angry with them for some things, they need our support to do the right thing and pass health care with a STRONG public option. We need to show up. If we languish, don't take this seriously, do you honestly think we will get health care reform passed? Please, wake up and think again.

And teabaggers at Senator Dodd's town hall meeting. These nutjobs even had NERVE to make fun of Dodd's cancer, pathetic:

"Barack Obama clearly said, all you should do is take a painkiller. How come we just don't give Chris Dodd painkillers?" shouted one man. "Like a handful of them at a time! He can wash it down with Ted Kennedy's whiskey -- oh excuse me, scotch!"

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