Teabaggers/Republicans now encouraging their thugs to take firearms to Town Hall Mtgs

It makes perfect sense. Threaten violence, threaten the lives of members of Congress, and bring guns to a health care reform forum, all in the service of lobbyists for huge corporations that don't want to see a loss of revenue. What an upstanding citizen!

Let's run through that again from the other direction. Huge insurance company in near-monopoly has customers pay ever-increasing costs for insurance, while trying to avoid paying claims, and rakes in enough to give their execs ridiculously high pay and compensation and make huge campaign contributions to friends in Congress. When lucrative venture is threatened by attempts to give uninsured and low-income people an affordable alternative, big insurance corporations pull out all the stops to thwart it.

Pulling out all the stops includes telling mind-numbingly ridiculous lies about the reform bill, hiring lobbyists to form fake grassroots groups and saturate right-wing media outlets with those lies, and encouraging violence against Democratic members of Congress, fueled by ignorance, bigotry, and a dependence on right-wing media for all information.

End result: moron brings gun to a town hall meeting.

Good show, AHIP!