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Title: McCain Evicts Angry Woman From Town Hall Meeting
Source: HuffPost
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Published: Aug 27, 2009
Author: HuffPost
Post Date: 2009-08-27 14:34:11 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 860
Comments: 30

PHOENIX — Sen. John McCain met with an angry crowd at a town-hall meeting about health care reform Wednesday, sometimes having to fight to talk and telling one woman who wouldn't stop yelling that she had to leave.

The Arizona senator hadn't yet opened up the meeting at McCain's central Phoenix church to questions when one audience member continuously yelled over him.

"You're going to have to stop or you're going to have to leave," McCain told the woman. When security guards approached to escort her out, he told her "Goodbye, see ya" to a round of applause.

After McCain opened it up to questioning, one man angrily pointed at him and asked the senator why he deserves a better health care plan than him.

"I'm trying to get it for you," McCain told him. "We'll do it for you. We'll make it affordable and available to you."

Other audience members in the crowd of 2,000 told McCain about their medical problems, such as HIV and multiple sclerosis.

McCain urged them he would fight for health care reform but reiterated his opposition to President Barack Obama's plan to create a government option to compete with private insurers, arguing that it would be the eventual end of private insurers in the U.S.

Obama and most Democrats say a government option would serve to balance the power of private insurers. But insurance companies see it as a step toward a government takeover, and many business groups agree.

When McCain was trying to answer questions from reporters after the town hall, one audience member yelled at him that he gets hundreds of thousands of dollars from insurance companies every year.

In a voice of feigned surprise, McCain said "Really? I didn't know that."

"There's more interest and involvement in this issue than I've ever seen in many years on a domestic issue," McCain said afterward. "There's obviously strong feeling and emotions on this issue and I think the town-hall meetings are a very important way to get people's viewpoints and allow them to deal directly with their elected representative."

The Democratic plan has repeatedly run into problems at such meetings. Throughout August, unruly opponents have tried to shout down lawmakers at local town hall meetings.

McCain also spoke against the proposal at a much more subdued town-hall meeting Tuesday in the retirement community of Sun City.

McCain canceled a Friday trip to Flagstaff so he can attend services for longtime colleague Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who died Tuesday night.

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#3. To: Brian S (#0)

Will the people get an international panel of doctors to treat their brain cancer?? You know, the same treatment Ted Kennedy got for his brain cancer???? Or will they get an end-of-life discharge from "the system"???????

X-15  posted on  2009-08-27   19:50:31 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: X-15, Jethro Tull, Brian S (#3)

Let me get this straight.

Obama's health care plan shall be written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it, signed by a president who smokes and has no birth certificate, funded by a treasury chief who did not pay his taxes, overseen by a surgeon general who is overweight and financed by a country that is nearly broke.

What could possibly go wrong?

buckeroo  posted on  2009-08-27   23:35:52 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: buckeroo (#9)

Let me get this straight.

Obama's health care plan shall be written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it, signed by a president who smokes and has no birth certificate, funded by a treasury chief who did not pay his taxes, overseen by a surgeon general who is overweight and financed by a country that is nearly broke.

What could possibly go wrong?

Niecly put Bucky, nicely put. Kudos.

Yeah. What could go wrong?

All we need now is Larry, Moe, and Curly to run it.

Original_Intent  posted on  2009-08-28   0:26:43 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: Original_Intent (#18)

All we need now is Larry, Moe, and Curly to run it.

Figuratively speaking, the government stooges already perform at their maximum peak of personal power and true capability for the rest of us god-damned cretin citizens being turned into infinite tax-slaves.

buckeroo  posted on  2009-08-28   0:41:33 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: buckeroo (#19) (Edited)

And we should be thankful for all that they do to for us.

Original_Intent  posted on  2009-08-28   0:45:31 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: Original_Intent (#20)

And we should be thankful for all that the[y] do to for us.

Sarcasm at its best!

But never forget, as the government attempts to invoke these new programs upon us wee, little people the government does not fix anything. In effect, with the nation flat broke and in depression based upon past failed expansion programs the government wants to create a method of change to stimulate your conscience juices to achieve the real stimulus package: "get your "eye off the ball."

Personally, I am not buying the BS.

buckeroo  posted on  2009-08-28   0:54:58 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#22. To: buckeroo (#21) (Edited)

Personally, I am not buying the BS.

Not only that the general legal consensus is that the Feral Government has no Constitutional Authority to mandate healthcare coverage and therefore the bill will be immediately challenged in court in the unlikely event it passes. They are still going to try and push it but they were not able to get it through fast enough and while Congress hasn't read it a lot of smart people have and the implications and mandates of the bill are being communicated to the general public and, bless their pointy heads, the sheeple are reaching for their pitchforks. So, we'll see where this settles out. The elites want this bill, not for improving hellthcare, but to improve the depopulation rate. So, they are going to try to continue to push it but the level of building outrage risks an explosion and our corrupt and worthless Congresscritters is gettin' afeared for their own worthless hides lessen some hothead take a shootin' iron and aim it their way. That of course would just break my liddle heart.

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