Staged protests are poisoning the well of Social Security reform

This is from a pair of Heritage Foundation writers. Article was in today's South Bend Tribune. I love how they call MoveOn.org members raucous and rude, but it's OK for Bush to spread lies.

South Bend is the next scheduled stop in President Bush's on-the-hustings campaign promoting his Social Security reform plan. Here's hoping the president is braced for a rough reception.

Last week, U.S. Rep. Chris Chocola, R-Bristol, held a town hall meeting in South Bend to discuss Social Security. Liberal activist group MoveOn.org packed the room with scores of its adherents, turning the session into "a raucous affair, with many of the 100 or so people who attended shouting questions and insults, talking over each other and still bubbling with questions when it was all over," according to Tribune political writer James Wensits.

The president's visit will likely attract more of the same. Every stop on his Social Security itinerary thus far has drawn attention from leftist advocacy groups. For example, the Center for America's Future has dispatched its own "advance team" to poison the well of Social Security reform just as the president hits town.

If past is prologue to today's event, here's what to expect. CAF will release a report which claims the president's plan will cost the average 20-year-old Hoosier $152,000 or so in "guaranteed" benefits.

These numbers would be scary, if they were true. Happily, they're not.
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Actually the protests come from the grassroots. They just don't get it or else they're spinning so hard they're apt to get dizzy.

to stage their "protests"

So they assume we do the same.

IE. the GOP staffers flown in from DC to protest the vote recount in Florida in 2000.

systematic phase out of SS. There is no honest dialogue occuring in them.

Quote from article:
"...turning the session into "a raucous affair, with many of the 100 or so people who attended shouting questions and insults, talking over each other and still bubbling with questions when it was all over,"

Uhhhhh....It's called D-E-M-O-C-R-A-C-Y.

Get used to it!!

I know it's difficult for you White House boys. You sit around tables, massaging each other's egos (and God knows what else), as you discuss your grand plans. I know it's difficult to accept that there is nation out there--and that most of us aren't buying your snake oil. But that's the reality!! If your ideas are so brilliant, then I'm sure you won't have any problem taking questions from Tony in Akron or Carol in Walla Walla.

You guys grew way-too accustomed to the campaign trail--paved with artificial rooms that were brimming with loyalty-oath-signing lemmings. Now, when you hear the roar of patriotic, red-blooded, passionate Americans with opinions--you practically wet yourselves.

Quit your whining, you tutu-wearing, weasel-faced wussies!!!

Shut up, listen up and say hello to*****"WE THE PEOPLE!!"****