Aux health care town meetings, citoyens!

Tue, 08/04/2009 - 11:08am — DCblogger

Republican Health Care Politics and Right Wing Thuggery

With the support and encouragement of the Republican leadership, one of America's most despicable political thugs, Dick Armey, a corporate lobbyist funded by the "health" industry, is organizing mobs to disrupt, harass and intimidate every public event organized to discuss the health care reform effort.

Single payer advocates were very effective in coopting the Obama health care house parties, we should be able to coopt these town meetings and overwhelm Dick Armey's thugs. How about single payer activists?

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yes!

By hipparchia on Tue, 08/04/2009 - 9:12pm

especially if the medicare for all advocates show up and act like the good guys! this could be a real gift.

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