Republicans Avoiding Town Halls to Silence Far Right Noise Makers

[drivebymedia]

A Former Engine of the G.O.P., the Town Hall Meeting, Cools Down

WASHINGTON — Representative Pete Sessions, a Texas Republican, is no stranger to town hall meetings and their political possibilities. Four summers ago, he helped his party use them to stoke opposition to President Obama’s health care bill. Across the country, forums like his fed a budding Tea Party movement and set the stage for returning the House to Republican control in 2010.

But when Mr. Sessions returned to his Dallas-area district for the August recess this year, a pause before Congress takes up an agenda that includes immigration, government surveillance, health care and budget cuts, there was something conspicuously missing from his schedule: a town hall.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/u...l-meeting-cools-down.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

 

[bodecea]

A Former Engine of the G.O.P., the Town Hall Meeting, Cools Down

WASHINGTON — Representative Pete Sessions, a Texas Republican, is no stranger to town hall meetings and their political possibilities. Four summers ago, he helped his party use them to stoke opposition to President Obama’s health care bill. Across the country, forums like his fed a budding Tea Party movement and set the stage for returning the House to Republican control in 2010.

But when Mr. Sessions returned to his Dallas-area district for the August recess this year, a pause before Congress takes up an agenda that includes immigration, government surveillance, health care and budget cuts, there was something conspicuously missing from his schedule: a town hall.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/u...l-meeting-cools-down.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

They've created a monster and it's turning on them.

 

[martybegan]

A Former Engine of the G.O.P., the Town Hall Meeting, Cools Down

WASHINGTON — Representative Pete Sessions, a Texas Republican, is no stranger to town hall meetings and their political possibilities. Four summers ago, he helped his party use them to stoke opposition to President Obama’s health care bill. Across the country, forums like his fed a budding Tea Party movement and set the stage for returning the House to Republican control in 2010.

But when Mr. Sessions returned to his Dallas-area district for the August recess this year, a pause before Congress takes up an agenda that includes immigration, government surveillance, health care and budget cuts, there was something conspicuously missing from his schedule: a town hall.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/u...l-meeting-cools-down.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

They've created a monster and it's turning on them.

The problem is we are lacking the "four legs good, two legs better!" bleating sheep the progressive side can rely on to pad the town halls and disrupt anyone who goes outside the statist groupthink.

 

[Intense]

From your link......

Even if more lawmakers schedule public meetings, and many still might, Republican and Democratic advocates said Congressional offices have gotten increasingly clever about keeping their schedules under wraps.

Sometimes, they wait until the last minute to announce the meeting, advocates said. Other times, they book a room that cannot accommodate large crowds and then alert their supporters to arrive an hour early so that the audience fills up with friendly faces.

Many now prefer to hold forums over the phone, a format that allows an operator to screen callers and minimizes the chance for the kind of disruptions that could be recorded and distributed by camera-wielding campaigners.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/u...l-meeting-cools-down.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Republicans Avoiding Town Halls to Silence Far Right Noise Makers

Really? Maybe the Statists from both sides of the aisle feel that way, for people that want to be told what to think, Town Halls would be a problem, huh. Why don't you just tell everyone what to say and think so no one has to worry about being profiled and labeled an extremist, by the likes of you. Just curious, who directs your Propaganda campaign?

 

[drivebymedia]

The article is clear:

Republicans are avoiding Town Halls to muzzle the tea party rabble rousers

 

[Lonestar_logic]

A Former Engine of the G.O.P., the Town Hall Meeting, Cools Down

WASHINGTON — Representative Pete Sessions, a Texas Republican, is no stranger to town hall meetings and their political possibilities. Four summers ago, he helped his party use them to stoke opposition to President Obama’s health care bill. Across the country, forums like his fed a budding Tea Party movement and set the stage for returning the House to Republican control in 2010.

But when Mr. Sessions returned to his Dallas-area district for the August recess this year, a pause before Congress takes up an agenda that includes immigration, government surveillance, health care and budget cuts, there was something conspicuously missing from his schedule: a town hall.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/u...l-meeting-cools-down.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Where's the list of Democrats having town hall meetings?

 

[Stephanie]

A Former Engine of the G.O.P., the Town Hall Meeting, Cools Down

WASHINGTON — Representative Pete Sessions, a Texas Republican, is no stranger to town hall meetings and their political possibilities. Four summers ago, he helped his party use them to stoke opposition to President Obama’s health care bill. Across the country, forums like his fed a budding Tea Party movement and set the stage for returning the House to Republican control in 2010.

But when Mr. Sessions returned to his Dallas-area district for the August recess this year, a pause before Congress takes up an agenda that includes immigration, government surveillance, health care and budget cuts, there was something conspicuously missing from his schedule: a town hall.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/u...l-meeting-cools-down.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

They've created a monster and it's turning on them.

wow, so the people don't have a damn thing to be angry over?
we should all just sit meekly by like you Democrats and let them just walk over us huh?

 

[Stephanie]

so the troll thinks a party should now "exclude" people..

what a small person

 

[jon_berzerk]

A Former Engine of the G.O.P., the Town Hall Meeting, Cools Down

WASHINGTON — Representative Pete Sessions, a Texas Republican, is no stranger to town hall meetings and their political possibilities. Four summers ago, he helped his party use them to stoke opposition to President Obama’s health care bill. Across the country, forums like his fed a budding Tea Party movement and set the stage for returning the House to Republican control in 2010.

But when Mr. Sessions returned to his Dallas-area district for the August recess this year, a pause before Congress takes up an agenda that includes immigration, government surveillance, health care and budget cuts, there was something conspicuously missing from his schedule: a town hall.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/u...l-meeting-cools-down.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

They've created a monster and it's turning on them.

wow, so the people don't have a damn thing to be angry over?
we should all just sit meekly by like you Democrats and let them just walk over us huh?

personally i am fed up with it

we hear it from the right time after time blah blah blah

either fish or cut bait

put new folks in or start another party eff em

 

[Stephanie]

They've created a monster and it's turning on them.

wow, so the people don't have a damn thing to be angry over?
we should all just sit meekly by like you Democrats and let them just walk over us huh?

personally i am fed up with it

we hear it from the right time after time blah blah blah

either fish or cut bait

put new folks in or start another party eff em

yep, I'm with you...but these nasty libs always have their noses in other peoples business...
it's a disgusting habit of theirs, and this troll is the ugliest ever

 

[jon_berzerk]

wow, so the people don't have a damn thing to be angry over?
we should all just sit meekly by like you Democrats and let them just walk over us huh?

personally i am fed up with it

we hear it from the right time after time blah blah blah

either fish or cut bait

put new folks in or start another party eff em

yep, I'm with you...but these nasty libs always have their noses in other peoples business...

yes that is what they do

the cure is to rid the from power the progressive righties

and perhaps some new amendments starting from the bottom up

 

[whitehall]

Once again the title of the post doesn't match the information contained in the link. Like everything else in the NY Times the alleged story is nothing but an op-ed with little information and lots of unverified opinion.

 

[Stephanie]

Once again the title of the post doesn't match the information contained in the link. Like everything else in the NY Times the alleged story is nothing but an op-ed with little information and lots of unverified opinion.

the troll doesn't care, as long as it looks like people are being shit on he runs with it

 

[Luddly Neddite]

The article is clear:

Republicans are avoiding Town Halls to muzzle the tea party rabble rousers

Running away is a tried and true trick of the right. Almost every R candidate has dodged questions from their constituents and/or the press.

The rw's eat this stuff up. The more their candidate lies, the more often they vote for him/her/it.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

A Former Engine of the G.O.P., the Town Hall Meeting, Cools Down

WASHINGTON — Representative Pete Sessions, a Texas Republican, is no stranger to town hall meetings and their political possibilities. Four summers ago, he helped his party use them to stoke opposition to President Obama’s health care bill. Across the country, forums like his fed a budding Tea Party movement and set the stage for returning the House to Republican control in 2010.

But when Mr. Sessions returned to his Dallas-area district for the August recess this year, a pause before Congress takes up an agenda that includes immigration, government surveillance, health care and budget cuts, there was something conspicuously missing from his schedule: a town hall.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/u...l-meeting-cools-down.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

They've created a monster and it's turning on them.

True.

And it will be interesting to see if Christie can tame that monster or be consumed by it.

 

[freedombecki]

A Former Engine of the G.O.P., the Town Hall Meeting, Cools Down

WASHINGTON — Representative Pete Sessions, a Texas Republican, is no stranger to town hall meetings and their political possibilities. Four summers ago, he helped his party use them to stoke opposition to President Obama’s health care bill. Across the country, forums like his fed a budding Tea Party movement and set the stage for returning the House to Republican control in 2010.

But when Mr. Sessions returned to his Dallas-area district for the August recess this year, a pause before Congress takes up an agenda that includes immigration, government surveillance, health care and budget cuts, there was something conspicuously missing from his schedule: a town hall.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/u...l-meeting-cools-down.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Poor lefties. Whining because they can't call the shots on Republicans. Now they're playing the world's saddest song:

 

[freedombecki]

The article is clear:

Republicans are avoiding Town Halls to muzzle the tea party rabble rousers

All leftist lockstep media articles are clear: they hate Republicans and love to make them look bad, even if they have to really tweak a story out of dust in the vacuum cleaner.

 

[whitehall]

The left wingers are so good at spin. You know that democrats who never even read the gigantic bill before they signed it are deathly afraid of being backed into a corner about Obamacare. The friendly liberal media plays a little Alinsky game and pretends that it's republicans.