Comments on: Teabaggers Bring Guns To Cohen Health Care Event http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/08/08/teabaggers-bring-guns-to-cohen-health-care-event/ Politics for liberal newsgeeks Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:33:20 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: darter22 http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/08/08/teabaggers-bring-guns-to-cohen-health-care-event/#comment-36984 darter22 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:48:06 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/08/08/teabaggers-bring-guns-to-cohen-health-care-event/#comment-36984 <p>Just shouting down others was not enough for the Paliban insurgents. Now they have to use guns to enforce their viewpoint? How can this be right? Wasilla trailer trash.</p> Just shouting down others was not enough for the Paliban insurgents. Now they have to use guns to enforce their viewpoint? How can this be right? Wasilla trailer trash.

]]> By: cinnamonape http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/08/08/teabaggers-bring-guns-to-cohen-health-care-event/#comment-36978 cinnamonape Sun, 09 Aug 2009 05:05:47 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/08/08/teabaggers-bring-guns-to-cohen-health-care-event/#comment-36978 <p>I think that the meetings should be held in places where no firearms are allowed…for example, many States and municipalities have laws against carrying weapons on schoolgrounds, Universities, courthouses, public buildings, etc. Some laws restrict “packing” within l00 yards, so these folks shouldn’t even be in the area without receiving a citation.</p> I think that the meetings should be held in places where no firearms are allowed…for example, many States and municipalities have laws against carrying weapons on schoolgrounds, Universities, courthouses, public buildings, etc. Some laws restrict “packing” within l00 yards, so these folks shouldn’t even be in the area without receiving a citation.

]]> By: Poicephalus http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/08/08/teabaggers-bring-guns-to-cohen-health-care-event/#comment-36977 Poicephalus Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:22:39 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/08/08/teabaggers-bring-guns-to-cohen-health-care-event/#comment-36977 <p>Jane,<br /> +18 doesn’t mean a whole lot against .45.<br /> Of course he is gonna say anything to deflect the nutters from<br /> stalking his family and checking his countertops.</p> <p>I don’t know where we go from here, but I think I will do the<br /> Banhoeffer thing.</p> <p>C</p> Jane,
+18 doesn’t mean a whole lot against .45.
Of course he is gonna say anything to deflect the nutters from
stalking his family and checking his countertops.

I don’t know where we go from here, but I think I will do the
Banhoeffer thing.

C

]]> By: NationHahn http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/08/08/teabaggers-bring-guns-to-cohen-health-care-event/#comment-36967 NationHahn Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:58:59 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/08/08/teabaggers-bring-guns-to-cohen-health-care-event/#comment-36967 <p>Is anyone terribly shocked?</p> Is anyone terribly shocked?

]]> By: Eureka Springs http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/08/08/teabaggers-bring-guns-to-cohen-health-care-event/#comment-36962 Eureka Springs Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:13:14 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/08/08/teabaggers-bring-guns-to-cohen-health-care-event/#comment-36962 <p>If you are for single payer.. a pledge to demand a robust public option (at minimum) should be very easy to do.</p> If you are for single payer.. a pledge to demand a robust public option (at minimum) should be very easy to do.

]]> By: TheLurkingMod http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/08/08/teabaggers-bring-guns-to-cohen-health-care-event/#comment-36959 TheLurkingMod Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:01:44 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/08/08/teabaggers-bring-guns-to-cohen-health-care-event/#comment-36959 <p>TBogg is upstairs!<br /><a href="http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/08/07/the-creamed-corn-mafia-also-does-not-like-your-music-and-your-slouchy-pants/" rel="nofollow">The Creamed Corn Mafia also does not care for<br /> your loud music and your slouchy pants</a></p> TBogg is upstairs!
The Creamed Corn Mafia also does not care for
your loud music and your slouchy pants

]]> By: vibinc http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/08/08/teabaggers-bring-guns-to-cohen-health-care-event/#comment-36958 vibinc Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:01:18 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/08/08/teabaggers-bring-guns-to-cohen-health-care-event/#comment-36958 <p>Cohen’s not acting like a Blue Dog. He’s not pulling a Mike Ross. He’s not being Max Bauccus. Come on, be serious.</p> <p>He said at the meeting that he supports single payer/public option. As for the pledge…we’re working on it, but he’s not much of a joiner.</p> Cohen’s not acting like a Blue Dog. He’s not pulling a Mike Ross. He’s not being Max Bauccus. Come on, be serious.

He said at the meeting that he supports single payer/public option. As for the pledge…we’re working on it, but he’s not much of a joiner.

]]> By: DeanOR http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/08/08/teabaggers-bring-guns-to-cohen-health-care-event/#comment-36956 DeanOR Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:57:30 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/08/08/teabaggers-bring-guns-to-cohen-health-care-event/#comment-36956 <p>Jackie, Today’s NBCLosAngeles reminds everyone that we DFHs are actually the violent ones in this country.</p> <p>“Manson Murders Showed Dark Side of Hippie Generation”<br /><a href="http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local-beat/Manson-Murders-Showed-Dark-Side-of-Hippie-Generation-52799157.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nbclosangeles.com/n.....99157.html</a><br /> The second half of the article quotes someone at length who studied Manson and says he wasn’t a hippie. That doesn’t stop the headline writer. Great scary picture of Charlie, the face of our movement.</p> Jackie, Today’s NBCLosAngeles reminds everyone that we DFHs are actually the violent ones in this country.

“Manson Murders Showed Dark Side of Hippie Generation”
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/n…..99157.html
The second half of the article quotes someone at length who studied Manson and says he wasn’t a hippie. That doesn’t stop the headline writer. Great scary picture of Charlie, the face of our movement.

]]> By: Eureka Springs http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/08/08/teabaggers-bring-guns-to-cohen-health-care-event/#comment-36955 Eureka Springs Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:45:47 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/08/08/teabaggers-bring-guns-to-cohen-health-care-event/#comment-36955 <p>Agreed with folks above… in AR or TN etc.. it would only be noteworthy if guns were not present.</p> <p>Why the hell is Cohen acting like a Blue Dog?</p> <p>Take the damn pledge, Congressman! Or come here and explain yourself to your early supporters.</p> <p>And that goes for your vote for the war spending too.</p> Agreed with folks above… in AR or TN etc.. it would only be noteworthy if guns were not present.

Why the hell is Cohen acting like a Blue Dog?

Take the damn pledge, Congressman! Or come here and explain yourself to your early supporters.

And that goes for your vote for the war spending too.

]]> By: vibinc http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/08/08/teabaggers-bring-guns-to-cohen-health-care-event/#comment-36953 vibinc Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:38:11 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/08/08/teabaggers-bring-guns-to-cohen-health-care-event/#comment-36953 <p>The key to getting the MSM to cover this is to not bury the lede under the emotional response that guns (posibly) were at an event in a State with a heavy gun culture.</p> <p>The wingers didn’t take over. That’s the lede. There was fairly civil discourse. That was the lede. There were lots of people there of dissenting opinions and no one got heated. That’s the lede.</p> <p>Or my favorite: They brought out the best wingers they could find to disrupt the democratic process, and they were outsmarted by a short jew that they called a Nazi. THAT’S THE LEDE.</p> The key to getting the MSM to cover this is to not bury the lede under the emotional response that guns (posibly) were at an event in a State with a heavy gun culture.

The wingers didn’t take over. That’s the lede. There was fairly civil discourse. That was the lede. There were lots of people there of dissenting opinions and no one got heated. That’s the lede.

Or my favorite: They brought out the best wingers they could find to disrupt the democratic process, and they were outsmarted by a short jew that they called a Nazi. THAT’S THE LEDE.

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