{"id":5550,"date":"2011-08-07T01:45:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T08:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5550"},"modified":"2011-08-07T07:45:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T14:45:32","slug":"joe-walsh-r-wi-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/07\/joe-walsh-r-wi-shut-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Walsh (R-IL) Shut Down!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It\u2019s always a refreshing sight, when when Republican representatives go home, hold town hall meetings and try to spread their lies about the economy, only to be shut down by every day Americans.\u00a0 This is completely different from Astroturf summer in 2009, when corporate criminals bussed Teabaggers all over the country to disrupt meetings.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"7Rep-Joe-Walsh\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/7Rep-Joe-Walsh.jpg\" alt=\"7Rep-Joe-Walsh\" width=\"350\" height=\"268\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At a Thursday town hall meeting in Wauconda, Illinois, Tea Party Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) railed against defense cuts and entitlement programs, telling attendees that Americans refuse to have a discussion about how best to rein in the nation\u2019s deficit and debt. But when Walsh asked how Americans planned to pay for those programs, he was caught off guard by a quick answer from one of the event\u2019s attendees&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Watch it, courtesy of Americans United for Change:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GhMbkC76v4A?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Republicans continue ignore that the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy are among the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2011\/07\/the-chart-that-should-accompany-all-discussions-of-the-debt-ceiling\/242484\/\" target=\"_blank\">main drivers<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2011\/06\/07\/238653\/animation-tax-cuts-deficit-debt\/\" target=\"_blank\">American debt<\/a> and that <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2011\/04\/09\/157448\/main-street-richest-taxes\/\" target=\"_blank\">falling tax rates<\/a> on the rich have led to <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2011\/05\/04\/163476\/us-unequal-uganda-pakistan\/\" target=\"_blank\">widening income gaps<\/a> between the richest and poorest Americans&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2011\/08\/06\/289618\/joe-walsh-townhall-tax-rich\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">He doesn\u2019t know where to find the money?\u00a0 I\u2019ll tell him where!\u00a0 Find it in the Koch brothers\u2019 wallets!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Update:\u00a0 I corrected the state in the title.\u00a0 Apologies.\u00a0 I had WI on my mind.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s always a refreshing sight, when when Republican representatives go home, hold town hall meetings and try to spread their lies about the economy, only to be shut down by every day Americans.\u00a0 This is completely different from Astroturf summer in 2009, when corporate criminals bussed Teabaggers all over the country to disrupt meetings. At <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/07\/joe-walsh-r-wi-shut-down\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-5550","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\/5550","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=5550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}