Are Republican Congressmen afraid of their own constituents? I just had a stealth

town hall meeting sneaked up on me. Around 6:30 PM my Congressman Kevin McCarthy, a Republican, rang me up and announced a phone conference town hall meeting. Not being prepared for it and frankly watching an expose of the health care industry on Rachel Maddow, I declined and didn't participate. Also, my land line phone's battery cuts out after fifteen minutes and my cell phone would have been a better choice. However, it struck me that Mr. McCarthy seems to be too chicken to have a live town hall in our very red district. I had searched for a town hall last week to no avail and gave up. He didn't seem to have one advertised anywhere, even the telephone one, which I would have participated in on my cell phone. What is he afraid of? His own redneck base? The more I think of it the more I think he is a big chicken and afraid to come out in public. Doesn't he understand that we liberals will not be the ones shouting him down and carrying guns. Of course he knows that because we liberals would be very outnumbered in a town hall meeting in this district.

Oh dear! It seems they have become victims of their own party's ideological rantings, running scared I tell you.

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

:)

...Osama bin Laden HATES health care for all?

Chicken Congressman loose in Bakersfield. :rofl:

The Republicans have every reason to be scared. Though it would be incredibly ironic if it were an (R) town hall where the real violence broke out.

That's what you get for pandering to the insane and stupid.

Unfortunately, I could not stay on but I did listen long enough to hear him characterize "public option" as a government owned system in which doctors and hospitals would be employed and owned by the government. I didn't try to ask any questions since I had to leave about that time but the next day I did email him about that deceptive answer.

I had to stop as I needed to go to the shower, badly.

I did learn though that the right wing talking points are alive and well no matter a US Congress woman debunked them.

Democrats should be, but should Republicans be afraid of the people who vote for them? Strange things are happening.

and fear is part of it, you are correct.

Just look at them wrong and they will run like scared rabbits!