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Audience Shouts Down Sebelius, Specter at Health Care Town Hall in Philadelphia
Fox News ^ | Aug 03, 2009 | N/A

Posted on 08/03/2009 9:25:00 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar

ealth and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Sen. Arlen Specter got a preview Sunday of the tough sell lawmakers will face over health care reforms.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Sen. Arlen Specter got a preview Sunday of the tough sell lawmakers will face over health care as audience members booed and jeered them during a town hall meeting in Philadelphia.

Among those at odds with the officials touting the $1 trillion, 10-year plan was a woman who earned loud applause when she said she doesn't want Washington interfering with her health care choices.

"I look at this health care plan and I see nothing that is about health or about care. What I see is a bureaucratic nightmare, senator. Medicaid is broke, Medicare is broke, Social Security is broke and you want us to believe that a government that can't even run a cash for clunkers program is going to run one-seventh of our U.S. economy? No sir, no," she said.

Click here to see the video of the town hall meeting.

While supporters offered courteous applause to the officials, Sebelius didn't earn any fans when she said that if lawmakers say they don't understand the legislation voters should urge them to go back and read it.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 111th; bhohealthcare; booed; congress; democrats; healthcare; obamacare; sebelius; socializedmedicine; specter; townhall; townhallmeetings; townhalls
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1 posted on 08/03/2009 9:25:00 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Jet Jaguar

It’s pitchfork time and the looney left knows it...


2 posted on 08/03/2009 9:26:31 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Jet Jaguar

Love it!!!! Keep going to these town meetings! We got them on the run!


3 posted on 08/03/2009 9:26:37 AM PDT by Shaka
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To: Jet Jaguar

Sebaceous and Spectre. What a combo.


4 posted on 08/03/2009 9:27:40 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (ABC-AP-MSNBC-All Obama, All the time.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

The two old broads got what they deserved.


5 posted on 08/03/2009 9:28:01 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Even as out of touch and ignorant as these people are, they can think in the abstract enough to project. Think they are scared?


6 posted on 08/03/2009 9:29:37 AM PDT by alarm rider (None shall be crowned who has not fought well. 2 Tim 2:5.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

7 posted on 08/03/2009 9:29:43 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: pissant

“The two old broads got what they deserved”.

...now THAT’s funny!


8 posted on 08/03/2009 9:30:12 AM PDT by albie
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To: Shaka
Love it!!!! Keep going to these town meetings! We got them on the run!

Doesn't matter. The Thug is gonna pull one of those 'midnight specials' and pass it by Executive Order on a Friday night. He doesn't care if people oppose it.

But you know what? I say, Let those bastards pass it anyway.

It will seal their political doom for certain.

9 posted on 08/03/2009 9:30:40 AM PDT by kromike
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To: Jet Jaguar

Someone said it before I could... It’s truly pitchfork time!


10 posted on 08/03/2009 9:31:32 AM PDT by BertWheeler (Dance and the world dances with you...)
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To: Jet Jaguar
The disdain that Spectre and Sibelius show for that audience of citizens is obscene.
11 posted on 08/03/2009 9:31:44 AM PDT by EggsAckley (There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply. W.C. Fields)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Need to VOTE them down!


12 posted on 08/03/2009 9:32:03 AM PDT by iowamark (certified by Michael Steele as "ugly and incendiary")
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To: Jet Jaguar; NoObamaFightForConservatives; joygrace

BTTT


13 posted on 08/03/2009 9:33:12 AM PDT by EdReform (The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed *NRA*JPFO*SAF*GOA*SAS*CCRKBA)
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To: Jet Jaguar
For Sebelius to make the point that ‘I've never seen congress’ work so hard; hours and hours on this’ is egregious. Most of these people would appear to have little knowledge of what hard work really is. They have tons of staffers, and if they had actually personally written the crap that's in that document they wouldn't have to ‘read it’ to know what is in it. They are clowns, and I apologize to clowns for saying that.
14 posted on 08/03/2009 9:33:44 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Jet Jaguar

Senator Sphincter says what??


15 posted on 08/03/2009 9:33:54 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Ummmm...

In the end they lost big time....


16 posted on 08/03/2009 9:33:59 AM PDT by Adder (Proudly ignoring Zero since 1-20-09!)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Fortunately, we have the 2nd Amendment, If the left had it’s way, pitchforks would be the most dangerous weapons we would be “allowed” to have, and then only if the tines were dulled.


17 posted on 08/03/2009 9:35:13 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Obamacare: all the efficiency of the DMV and all the compassion of the IRS.)
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To: socialismisinsidious

Ping


18 posted on 08/03/2009 9:35:47 AM PDT by EdReform (The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed *NRA*JPFO*SAF*GOA*SAS*CCRKBA)
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To: Jet Jaguar
“The Senate bill isn't written so don't boo the senator for not reading a bill that isn't written,” she said.”

Oh brilliant!!!!! So ... since SHE is willing to buy a pig in a poke, she thinks we ought to as well. Stupid jerk. What the h%$# is she selling, if the product DOES NOT EXIST??????????????????????? What are these clowns peddling to American voters if in fact, and according to her own statement, the bill does not exist yet! Why don't our 'elected officials' STFU till they have something to present? I'll tell you why... because they are so COMPLETELY "O's" creatures that they will stand up and say ANYTHING in public. They think we are all as drunk on this BS as they are. THEY have sold themselves to this creep in the WH and now are trying to earn their pay...nothing more.

19 posted on 08/03/2009 9:37:49 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else" Lucius Septimus Severus)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
pitchforks would be the most dangerous weapons we would be “allowed

GUILLOTINE!!! GUILLOTINE!!! GUILLOTINE!!!

20 posted on 08/03/2009 9:38:17 AM PDT by Huebolt (Kill the boomers quickly and cheaply = O BUMMER CARE "take the pain medication")
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