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Chris Matthews Says People Who Don’t Want Socialized Medicine Are “Zany”; Texas Congressman Agrees
NewsReal Blog ^ | August 4, 2009 | Claude Cartaginese

Posted on 08/04/2009 3:51:06 PM PDT by HorowitzianConservative

Chris Matthews’ guest on Hardball last night just doesn’t get it. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, Democrat from Texas, had some unkind things to say to Matthews about those “Conservatives and Libertarians” who, he asserts, are sabotaging the health care “debate” in America.

It seems that Doggett, along with Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and others in Congress who support Barack Obama’s push to socialize our health care system, have been met with people actually disagreeing with them at town hall meetings. Imagine, the common people thinking that they may have something to add to the debate about how the government wants to spend their money — the insolence!

After being confronted by hundreds of angry constituents at his town hall meeting in Austin over the weekend, Doggett went on to relate what happened there after being prompted by this screwball question from Matthews:

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People that support the free market are "zany"????
1 posted on 08/04/2009 3:51:06 PM PDT by HorowitzianConservative
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To: HorowitzianConservative

His tingle has gone to his brain.


2 posted on 08/04/2009 3:52:40 PM PDT by Dallas59 ("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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To: HorowitzianConservative

Call me “zany”, then.


3 posted on 08/04/2009 3:53:40 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: HorowitzianConservative

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Pf0GS7p98


4 posted on 08/04/2009 3:53:57 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Expect more of this unhinging on the left.

It’s a beautiful thing


5 posted on 08/04/2009 3:56:02 PM PDT by lakertaker (Democratic Party Economic plan: Declare all those who hate higher taxes as unpatriotic)
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To: HorowitzianConservative

6 posted on 08/04/2009 3:56:10 PM PDT by Wardenclyffe
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To: HorowitzianConservative

Anyone who vaues the opinion of lightweight like Chris Matthews should seriously qualify for psychiatric analysis.


7 posted on 08/04/2009 3:58:53 PM PDT by Paperdoll ( Hunter/Palin or Palin/Hunter in 2012!)
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To: lakertaker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Pf0GS7p98


8 posted on 08/04/2009 3:59:35 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: HorowitzianConservative

These assclowns got the Douche Bag elected, along with a complicit Congress. 2010 can’t come soon enough...


9 posted on 08/04/2009 4:01:36 PM PDT by OriginalChristian (Gov. Sarah Palin, MSM Belittle, Ignore her at your own peril...)
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To: HorowitzianConservative

No: people who believe in “freedom” are zany. It’s not really “freedom”, you see, merely a Social Construct imposed by powerful forces to create the “illusion” of choice. Only Progressives can truly free us from our bondage and provide us with the things we need and therefore deserve to have, because only Need matters. But first, they must take things from those who have amassed them, for the Common Good. It’s for The Children.


10 posted on 08/04/2009 4:02:17 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (It's what people know about themselves inside that makes them afraid.)
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Didnt Doggett get run out of his own town hall by his zany constituents?


11 posted on 08/04/2009 4:02:34 PM PDT by Venturer
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I certainly hope after the election in 2010 when we throw large numbers of these clowns out on their asses maybe the rest will get the message. "We the People" have taken the country back.

2010 will be the defining moment in this countries history. Either we take the country back or we are slaves

12 posted on 08/04/2009 4:03:51 PM PDT by Popman
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Well you didn’t they would fall over with their legs in the air now did you? Oh course they are bleating like sheep, they saw a once unstoppable juggernaut sliding off into a ditch. The snarky dismissive attitude is par for the course and talk about zany, I can’t wait till some of the critics here start getting teabagged also, like Matthews and Press and book signings, townhalls, etc. They will really go into orbit. Looks like we have them on the run fellows, let’s keep it up, better watch out Matthews we may just have to find out where you live and protest out front of your liberal enclave.


13 posted on 08/04/2009 4:03:58 PM PDT by pburgh01
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To: HorowitzianConservative

Saul Alinsky's _Rules for Radicals_

5. "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule.
Also it infuriates the opposition,
which then reacts to your advantage."


14 posted on 08/04/2009 4:09:03 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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Maybe Chris does not know the survival rate for prostate cancer in the US is 95% plus and only 57% in Europe. Or maybe he is cool with that (does not want to live that long anyway).


15 posted on 08/04/2009 4:12:06 PM PDT by microgood
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How am I any more zany than any of the folks in Congress who don't want to change their health plans either?
16 posted on 08/04/2009 4:13:39 PM PDT by Sylvester McMonkey McBean
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To: UriÂ’el-2012

I don’t know how much weight you can give to the opinion of a “man” who reports things tingling up and down his leg. Chris Matthews is as loony as they come.


17 posted on 08/04/2009 4:13:50 PM PDT by AmericanMermaid
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survival rate for prostate cancer in the US is 95% plus and only 57% in Europe

proving government programs are successful in Europe.

18 posted on 08/04/2009 4:23:46 PM PDT by alrea (20% unemployment called "change and hope" coming to a city near you)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win."---Mahatma Gandhi
19 posted on 08/04/2009 4:33:30 PM PDT by cranked
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To: HorowitzianConservative

Matthews is the guy that can’t understand why you didn’t screw that passed out drunk chick at the party


20 posted on 08/04/2009 4:41:04 PM PDT by tophat9000 (Obama plans to fix America like he fixed his dog)
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