The argument that ACORN or Code Pink disrupt meetings is no argument to justify Tea Baggers or anyone else disrupting town meetings. Two wrongs don't make a right.

Pure and simple. People who come to meetings to shout down everyone else who is abiding by the rules of civil discourse should be removed. I don't care if it's those off-the left-end-of-the-political-spectrum, Spartacus, or the misbegotten Birthers. If they have a cause they refuse to articulate by the rules of town meetings- an American democratic tradition as old as this republic - they should demonstrate outside. Picket, leaflet folks as they come in or out, but don't come in and behave like yahoos. The sgt at arms should remove them.

The most dramatic protest I ever saw was when Jean Kilpatrick (the Reagan egregious apologist for Latin American adventurism at the time) was keynote speaker at a Georgetown U graduation held out doors. Those of us disagreeing with the current administration's foreign policies silently turned our folding chairs around and, shunned her.

Slavery was first outlawed in Georgia for instance by Ogglethorpe, the founder of the state.

James Oglethorp founded the colony of Georgia. It's true he outlawed slavery, but within a few years slavery was established there. A Georgian historian explained the reason being "economic necessity".

But here's one for you: Anybody want to take a bet that while Karl Rove won't be indicted, the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. John Conyers of Detroit, will? Conyers' wife is at this moment awaiting sentencing following a federal guilty plea in an influence-peddling scheme involving an elaborate web of federal informants, wiretaps, and guilty pleas from as many as a half-dozen people so far, with more to come.

The FBI in the Detroit case has explicitly said John Conyers is not under investigation, nor even "of interest" in this unfolding story of local corruption. Monica Conyers, former City Council president, has copped a plea for taking bribes in the pay to play here in Detroit. There will undoubtedly be other indictments. I'm betting that possibly former mayor Kilpatrick and his father are among those others, but your bet about John is wishful thinking.

What really puts a bug up your bottom is that John is now majority senior member of the House Judicuary Committee. As Chair he is running the committee as the oversight body it has failed to be for the past eight years.

Your post is brilliant political satire; in fact, it's so good, I'm re-posting here.

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Some screaming Republican shills were arrested today after they confused the location of Mary Alice's Tupperware party for a health care reform town hall, disrupting it with screams, wild accusations, and tantrums. Screamed one screamer, "The Founding Fathers didn't use snap-top cannisters!" Screamed another screamer, "Plastic is socialism!"

The Belfry family of Militia, Arkansas, is barricaded inside the family's mobile home, refusing to come out until they receive word that the government will not pull the plug on grandma. Said son Bats, "We're trying to figure out right now where the plug for Grandma is supposed to go. And after we figure that out, we'll be ready to fight to keep bureaucrats from pulling it."

Glenn Beck reports that he will no longer suggest that various people should die because he doesn't want to be drafted to serve on the federal death panel, even if it is named for Sarah Palin.

You've heard of birthers, who doubt President Obama's birthplace. You've heard of deathers, who think the government wants to kill the elderly. Now, there are whiters. They refuse to believe that Obama is half-black and half-white until he shows them his white parts.

Warren won the office pool today at the Center for Frightening Senior Citizens by correctly identifying that Rush Limbaugh, on his radio show, would do his best to scare the bejesus out of seniors, children, puppies, Lutherans, zookeepers, truck drivers, substitute teachers, and people who walk really slow.

A Blue-Dog Democrat today had to be treated for fleas. Said the veterinarian, "Quit hanging out with Republicans."

Insurance companies are now offering to cover of cost of flea powder if Blue-Dog Democrats will continue to hang out with Republicans and bury that public option like a chewed-up meat bone.

No, you can't trade in your senator or representative for stimulus money in the "Cash for Clunkers" program.

-- Missouri Dave

I plowed through about 150 pages of the wretched prose and cliched plot of this book before I quit. Stories of a young girl growing up to marry her protector abound. One of Alcott's novel is about that, so was the film of the 50s, "Daddy Longlegs", also the recent novel Geisha, another pot boiler.

This was worth reporting?

Wow...Democrats hate Fox and Republicans love it. You don't say.

Empirical evidence (e.g. polls) is always better than intitive or anecdotal.

IntUitive.