{"id":4686,"date":"2011-04-27T02:57:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T09:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4686"},"modified":"2011-04-27T02:57:38","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T09:57:38","slug":"voters-blast-republicans-over-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/27\/voters-blast-republicans-over-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters Blast Republicans Over Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republicans representatives all over the country are leaving their own town hall meetings in serious need of a dose of Preparation H, as voter anger approaches that last seen in Summer, 2009.  Those 2009 town halls were astroturfed with corporate lobbyists and plutocons providing transportation, often from out of state, lodging, meals and, of course, thorough indoctrination on exactly what to think and say.  These town halls are true grass roots, an upwelling of the base, who wait for the party to get on the bus.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"GOPIn central Florida, a Congressional town meeting erupted into near chaos on Tuesday as attendees accused a Republican lawmaker of trying to dismantle Medicare while providing tax cuts to corporations and affluent Americans.<\/p>\n

At roughly the same time in Wisconsin, Representative Paul D. Ryan, the architect of the Republican budget proposal, faced a packed town meeting, occasional boos<\/strong> and a skeptical audience as he tried to lay out his party\u2019s rationale for overhauling the health insurance program for retirees. <\/p>\n

In a church theater here on Tuesday evening, a meeting between Representative Allen B. West and some of his constituents began on a chaotic note, with audience members quickly on their feet, some heckling him<\/strong> and others loudly defending him. \u201cYou\u2019re not going to intimidate me,\u201d Mr. West said.  <\/p>\n

After 10 days of trying to sell constituents on their plan to overhaul [destroy] Medicare, House Republicans in multiple districts appear to be increasingly on the defensive<\/strong>, facing worried and angry questions from voters and a barrage of new attacks from Democrats and their allies. <\/p>\n

The proposed new approach to Medicare \u2014 a centerpiece of a budget that Republican leaders have hailed as a courageous effort to address the nation\u2019s long-term fiscal problems \u2014 has been a constant topic at town-hall-style sessions and other public gatherings during a two-week Congressional recess that provided the first chance for lawmakers to gauge reaction to the plan\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Both Rachel Maddow (with columnist Eugene Robinson) and Ed Schultz (with columnist Jonathan Nichols) both provided excellent footage of the meetings and arguments debunking Republican talking points on the budget.<\/font><\/p>\n

First Rachel:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

For me the bottom line is this.  If the Republican budget had anything to do with reducing the deficit, it would not increase the deficit by spending more in tax cuts for the super rich that they save by trashing the safety net, needed by the poor and middle classes.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republicans representatives all over the country are leaving their own town hall meetings in serious need of a dose of Preparation H, as voter anger approaches that last seen in Summer, 2009.  Those 2009 town halls were astroturfed with corporate lobbyists and plutocons providing transportation, often from out of state, lodging, meals and, of course, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}