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To: Road Walker who wrote (498966)	7/28/2009 2:27:54 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1575781

Senator Claire "ACORN" McCaskill's office agreed to hold a town hall meeting on Obamacare. A massive Tea Party Protest broke out! Missouri Senator Claire "ACORN" McCaskill arranged for her district director, Michelle Sherod to meet with constituents (after calling the cops on them two weeks ago) at a town hall meeting on Monday night at Forest Park Community College in St. Louis. Americans for Prosperity's Carl Bearden moderated the meeting and Ms Sherod took questions for the Senator. They were expecting around 100-150 people... Hundreds showed up. It was so crowded they were forced to move the meeting down to the cafeteria. At least McCaskill was shamed into holding the meeting. Others, like Rep. Collin Peterson from Minnessota (Democrat), refuse to even talk with constituents and call them crazy. I kid you not! From Ed Morrissey over at HotAir: Peterson: I don’t talk to my constituents because they’re nuts. The Minnesota GOP took notice of an odd statement from Rep. Collin Peterson (D-MN) in a Politico piece on the Birthers. They want Peterson to apologize for calling a quarter of his constituents Truthers and claiming that he can’t hold town-hall meetings in person with the other seventy-five percent: Out-party politicians have long had to deal with conspiracy theorists on their side — the people who think that the Clintons killed Vince Foster or that the Bush administration helped orchestrate the Sept. 11 attacks. “Twenty-five percent of my people believe the Pentagon and Rumsfeld were responsible for taking the twin towers down,” said Rep. Collin Peterson, a Democrat who represents a conservative Republican district in Minnesota. “That’s why I don’t do town meetings.” Somehow I doubt that a full quarter of Peterson’s constituents are Truthers, or even ten percent. However, what if they were? Doesn’t Peterson have some responsibility to talk to his constituents to dispel those paranoid conspiracy theories? More to the point, Peterson should be answerable to his constituents, but I suspect that his reluctance to face them now has more to do with Peterson’s support of Obama’s agenda on cap-and-trade than it does with him being frightened away by conspiracy theorists. Way to represent you constituents there, tough guy! Might brave of you to hide. Good luck in 2010! theblogprof.blogspot.com

To: Road Walker who wrote (498966)	7/28/2009 2:31:20 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575781

Have you looked at the Republican approval ratings? The 'newly elected honeymoon' is over for Obama but people HATE the Republicans. Depending on which poll you look at the Democrat congress has between a -28 and -43. That's not impressive. Even the DailyKOS poll has a -11 on the right track/wrong track. The difference between Rs and Ds on the generic ballot is negligible. The people are sick of what this congress is doing, and even sicker about what the president is doing. Now, if the economy happens to turn around by this time next year, they may have a shot; obviously, it would not be due to Obama policy of wild pork barrel spending, but he will be the beneficiary if it happens. Otherwise, the rule of Obama will have been a short one.