Hey Long Island! 2010's Just Around The Corner!

"Oh boy, is this great!". This is democracy. People, real people not rent-a-mobs, showing up and exercising their first amendment right to petition the government for a redress of grievances! I'm not talking about anti-war nuts throwing fake blood on people or wearing funny hats to get on TV - I'm talking about real Americans that have probably never gone to a meeting with a Congressman before showing up and telling his they're mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.

Special cheers for Long Island residents that showed up and exposed Democrat Tim Bishop as an out-of-touch elitist that is so fed up with the people he represents telling him how pissed off they are about his votes that he's stopped meeting with the unwashed, unintelligent masses he represents! All because people were shouting at him about his positions! Mommy, they were yelling at me! Get this, he goes on to complain about how he believes in talking things over! After cancelling all his meetings with constituents! How does he walk with those things? November 2010, Long Island - November 2010. Get yourself a rep that doesn't think you're beneath his notice, not worth his time, and stupid because you don't want to live in a socialist nation. This is your one chance - if you re-elect him after this, you own him.

On the eve of the August recess, members are reporting meetings that have gone terribly awry, marked by angry, sign-carrying mobs and disruptive behavior. In at least one case, a congressman has stopped holding town hall events because the situation has spiraled so far out of control.

“I had felt they would be pointless,” Rep. Tim Bishop (D-N.Y.) told POLITICO, referring to his recent decision to suspend the events in his Long Island district. “There is no point in meeting with my constituents and [to] listen to them and have them listen to you if what is basically an unruly mob prevents you from having an intelligent conversation.”

In Bishop’s case, his decision came on the heels of a June 22 event he held in Setauket, N.Y., in which protesters dominated the meeting by shouting criticisms at the congressman for his positions on energy policy, health care and the bailout of the auto industry.

Within an hour of the disruption, police were called in to escort the 59-year-old Democrat — who has held more than 100 town hall meetings since he was elected in 2002 — to his car safely.

“I have no problem with someone disagreeing with positions I hold,” Bishop said, noting that, for the time being, he was using other platforms to communicate with his constituents. “But I also believe no one is served if you can’t talk through differences.”

Bishop isn’t the only one confronted by boiling anger and rising incivility. At a health care town hall event in Syracuse, N.Y., earlier this month, police were called in to restore order, and at least one heckler was taken away by local police. Close to 100 sign-carrying protesters greeted Rep. Allen Boyd (D-Fla.) at a late June community college small-business development forum in Panama City, Fla. Last week, Danville, Va., anti-tax tea party activists claimed they were “refused an opportunity” to ask Rep. Thomas Perriello (D-Va.) a question at a town hall event and instructed by a plainclothes police officer to leave the property after they attempted to hold up protest signs...

“We’ve seen Russ Carnahan, we’ve seen Tim Bishop, we’ve seen some other people face some very different crowds back home,” said National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Texas). “The days of you having a town hall meeting where maybe 15 or 20 of your friends show up — they’re over. You’ve now got real people who are showing up — and that’s going to be a factor.”...

Desperate to spin an unspinnable situation, the press brings up one Republican that had a confrontation with one "birther". Then they quote the out-of-touch elitist democrat voice who says Republicans have to be careful about aligning themselves with a tiny minority of conservatives (guess he hasn't seen the polls in about 6 months) like TEA party activists. They're trying to spin, but this one's stuck firmly in the mud.

Most distressingly - as today went along, more news trickled out that Democrats were 'coming around' to the idea of socializing medicine to the tune of trillions and countless lives. The FCDINO's (Fiscal Conservative Democrats In Name Only) decided to roll over and play dead for Obama despite the protests just described that will likely cost them their seats in 2010. Sorry, you lose all right to call yourself any sort of conservative when you sell out to the socialist wing of your party for a couple of bucks in YET ANOTHER trillion dollar spending spree.

Congratulations. You're making it come true. America will be brought down from within, not by any outside forces. Medicare and Social Security (not the plans, but the way they have been run and expanded) put us well along the path, piling free market crushing emission laws into affect to stop something that cannot be stopped and, worse yet, does not need to be stopped, coupled with multiple multi-trillion dollar spending sprees that America can never hope to recover from will be too much to bear. Those that can will flock to emerging nations as immigrants now flock to the US. Everything described in Atlas Shrugged is coming true. We will become a nation of mediocrity where success is punished and frowned upon and the unsuccessful and lazy will take from the successful and hardworking until there is no more to take and the nation will collapse, likely taking much of the world that depends on the US for so many things with it.

Congratulations. Socializing 1/6th of the nation's economy will get you well on your way.