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Protesters Trash Health Care Reform
Democrats Met With Anger over Prospect of Higher Taxes, Government-Run "Obama-Care" on Eve of August Recess
By Wyatt Andrews
(CBS) The debate over health care reform has been raging in Washington for weeks. But outside the nation's capital, this healthy discourse has grown loud with vocal protests.
Is this just some less-than-polite heckling or political maneuvering? CBS News correspondent Wyatt Andrews reports.
It's happening almost everywhere as Democrats try to defend their plan for health care reform.
Angry protestors in Philadelphia shouted down both Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Sen. Arlen Specter.
On Saturday in Texas, demonstrators against what they called government-run health care surrounded Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett and followed him out to his car, shouting "just say no."
The crowds are partly the result of conservative Web sites asking for turn out at town hall meetings - including three tonight in Virginia, Mississippi and South Carolina. Hundreds of events by both Democrats and Republicans are being targeted in every state.
But the turnouts also reflect the real fear over the increased taxes and government controls that are part of the health bills being considered in Congress.
"They know that that means somebody's taxes are eventually be used to pay for this - and they are worried that that's their taxes," said Max Pappas of the conservative Web site Freedom Works.
Political analysts say Democrats face a very tough August recess. Beyond the shout-downs, anti-reform forces have also mounted phone campaigns
"It's all the calls that are flooding in to the district offices of members of Congress," said CBS News political consultant Marc Ambinder. "And I bet that a lot of these calls will be negative."
Avoiding this kind of uproar is why Democrats wanted to pass health reform before August recess. Democrats are going out without a final bill to defend - and facing opponents trying to kill what they call "Obama-care" with this show of August heat.
But Nobody Reports it Like Keith Olbermann
Click here to see Keith's coverage. It's the #5 story: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#32276805
By Wyatt Andrews
(CBS) The debate over health care reform has been raging in Washington for weeks. But outside the nation's capital, this healthy discourse has grown loud with vocal protests.
Is this just some less-than-polite heckling or political maneuvering? CBS News correspondent Wyatt Andrews reports.
It's happening almost everywhere as Democrats try to defend their plan for health care reform.
Angry protestors in Philadelphia shouted down both Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Sen. Arlen Specter.
On Saturday in Texas, demonstrators against what they called government-run health care surrounded Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett and followed him out to his car, shouting "just say no."
The crowds are partly the result of conservative Web sites asking for turn out at town hall meetings - including three tonight in Virginia, Mississippi and South Carolina. Hundreds of events by both Democrats and Republicans are being targeted in every state.
But the turnouts also reflect the real fear over the increased taxes and government controls that are part of the health bills being considered in Congress.
"They know that that means somebody's taxes are eventually be used to pay for this - and they are worried that that's their taxes," said Max Pappas of the conservative Web site Freedom Works.
Political analysts say Democrats face a very tough August recess. Beyond the shout-downs, anti-reform forces have also mounted phone campaigns
"It's all the calls that are flooding in to the district offices of members of Congress," said CBS News political consultant Marc Ambinder. "And I bet that a lot of these calls will be negative."
Avoiding this kind of uproar is why Democrats wanted to pass health reform before August recess. Democrats are going out without a final bill to defend - and facing opponents trying to kill what they call "Obama-care" with this show of August heat.
But Nobody Reports it Like Keith Olbermann
Click here to see Keith's coverage. It's the #5 story: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#32276805
Tags: Health Care Reform
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Permalink Reply by Timothy Platt on
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Jackie,
Obama has already acknowledged that not everyone wll have insurance. They are developing the rhetoric that some people just refuse to pay for healthcare so they must be personally responsible for their decision. -
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Permalink Reply by Boothby171 on
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The problem is, at a fairly recent lecture series at a liberal college, the left-wing students protested just as vociferously and obnoxiously.
No one's got a leg to stand on, or the moral high ground. -
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Permalink Reply by gunsq on
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But were the students bought and paid for? It seems that the Repub protesters are being bussed to these things, sometimes from out of town.
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Permalink Reply by P.A. on
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I do not want to be lumped with them either and I share both skin color and region with them.
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Permalink Reply by Westerly_2 on
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My question is, how does it "play" for serious people who really want a serious discussion and/or health care reform for their own reasons?
Do voters know this for the circus it is, or is the poor representative doomed to play defense and placate the loud and the ugly?
Is it effective at large,or do most voters realize it for the sad sham I know it to be? -
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Permalink Reply by ZenDog on
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Bail money? Well, jeez, I probably do. I mean, after all, I'm not going to need any bail money - if anyone gets me started on this B.S. they won't be granting me any bail . . .
The NITWITS don't have any plan, but they do have lobbiests to placate. So they bus in some angry white people.
Say, that gives me an idea . . . I look like an angry white person . . .
where's my vest . . . -
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Depends on which way your boss leans, how hard he leans that way, and how much of a ruckus you cause. Try not to get yourself in too much trouble, will ya?
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If they have no plan can it really matter, for those who are looking for volume, not logic?
Carry on, TobyRow, but keep us posted. -
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I will get you bail money and even come and get you out myself. Just let me know.
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Permalink Reply by Madhatterat60 on
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I love the "new name" for the tea-baggers who want to call theirs a 'grass roots' movement. Instead...it's more an Astro-Turf movement.
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Permalink Reply by cynthia Hunter on
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Msnbc I won't listn to them at all! The bay way to get to the I listen to cnn and fox!
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