Planning to attend a local town hall meeting about health care reform? Hoping to learn something and to express your opinion? <\/p>\n
Well, be sure to bring a pair of ear plugs. Because the only thing you’re likely to hear is an enraged, screaming mob. And the only thing you’re likely to learn is that it’s frustrating and possibly dangerous to be a Democratic Congressperson. <\/p>\n
Here’s my limerick about the right-wing scheme to stifle intelligent discussion of the issues by inciting angry mobs to shout down these meetings.<\/a> <\/p>\n Tantrum Politics If reform can’t be fought using facts, Related Posts: An Open Limerick To President Obama;<\/a> Republicans Were For \u201cDeath Panels\u201d Before They Were Against Them;<\/a> and Waterloo Lies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Planning to attend a local town hall meeting about health care reform? Hoping to learn something and to express your opinion? Well, be sure to bring a pair of ear plugs. Because the only thing you’re likely to hear is an enraged, screaming mob. And the only thing you’re likely to learn is that it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,23,20,52,14,556,11,154,6,7,3,9,69],"tags":[701,375,828,833,831,825,832,829],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1479,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions\/1479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n
\nSimply give civil discourse the ax.
\nBlock discussion with mobs
\nPacked with morons like Dobbs.
\nThat’s the path of Republican hacks.<\/p>\n