How Tomorrow Moves| More...
 

Town Halls

GOP Desperately Trying To Gin Up New Town Hall Anger

Politico | MANU RAJU | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Town Halls, Town Hall, Town Halls, Gop Town Halls, Gop Town Hall, Republican Town Hall, Health Care, Republican Town Halls, Healthcare, Politics News

Republicans are looking to resurrect the angry town halls of August in the last few weeks of November. Senate Republican Conference Chairman Lamar ...

Read Whole Story

"...And to the Republic for Which it Stands..."

Gary Hart | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Government, Public Policy, Town Halls, Town Hall Debate, Pledge of Allegiance, Town Hall Meetings, Politics News
Gary Hart

Shouting at town hall meetings may vent anger, but it is not sufficient to eliminate corruption in American government. Exercising popular sovereignty through constructive civic duty, though, would be a start.

Read Post

A Critical Mass of Thinking on Health Care Reform

Robert R. Hoopes, Jr. | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Reagan, Town Halls, Politics, Healthcare Reform, Senate, Baucas, Politics News
Robert R. Hoopes, Jr.

On healthcare reform, we need more critical thinking -- we need a critical mass of thinking.

Read Post

Civil Discourse Is Alive and Well ... in Colorado

Carol Hedges | Posted 11.23.2009 | Denver

Read More: Taxes, Revenue, League of Women Voters, Budget Cuts, Budgets, Fiscal Crisis, Rankings, Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute, Colorado, Town Halls, Denver News
Carol Hedges

We've come a long way from Tocqueville's engaged America. I am happy to report, however, that thoughtful, respectful and civil discourse still thrives in the great state of Colorado.

Read Post

Bill Clinton On The Daily Show: Negotiating With North Korea, Lunch With Obama, And How Health Care Is "Bankrupting" America

Huffington Post | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton Foundation, North Korea, Town Halls, Health Care Reform, Bill Clinton Daily Show, Bill Clinton Daily Show Interview, Global Initiatives, The Daily Show, John Stewart, Barack Obama, Politics News

Bill Clinton returned for his fifth appearance on The Daily Show on Thursday night. During the 20 minute, wide ranging discussion, Clinton dished on ...

Read Whole Story

Health Care Reform is the New Gay Marriage

Morgan Warners | Posted 11.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Tea Bag Parties, Tax Day Tea Party, Modernity, Tea Bag, Tea Baggers, Tea Party, Tea Bagging, Gay Rights, Evangelical Christians, Economy, Christianity, Globalization, Gay, Gay Marriage, Health Care Town Halls, Town Hall Debate, Tea Party Protests, Town Hall Debate Reaction, Town Halls, Town Hall Meetings, Media News
Morgan Warners

Gay marriage and our increasingly obvious interconnectedness present threats to traditions and ways of doing things that many of us think should change. In that regard, health reform is the new gay marriage.

Read Post

Joe Wilson: Just Another Heckler in the Crowd

Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: You Lie!, Hecklers, Obama and Republicans, Civic Discourse, Guns at Town Halls, Obama and Congress, Congressional Behavior, Joe Wilson Liar, Joe Wilson Obama, Tea Baggers, Joe Wilson, Obama Speech, Town Halls, Obama and Gop, Obama Health Care, Obama Joe Wilson, Politics News
Rick Horowitz

Once you've spent day after day among the constituents -- hearing the president being called a Nazi, a commie, a socialist tool, a terrorist mole -- calling Barack Obama a liar must have seemed almost quaint.

Read Post

Wilson Is the Poster "Child" for the New Republican Party

Robert Creamer | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Joe Wilson, Town Halls, Breaking News, Obama Health Care Speech, Health Care Reform, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Health Insurance Reform, Joe Wilson Congress, Republicans, Politics News
Robert Creamer

The other night, Joe Wilson etched his political legacy into the wall of American history. He will forever be the poster child that symbolizes the new Republican Party.

Read Post

Right Like Me

Steven Weber | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Town Halls, Right Wing, Town Hall Meetings, Republicans, Politics News
Steven Weber

I used the unnaturally plentiful gifts that made me arguably the greatest actor in modern times, gifts which propelled me to the highest level of achievement, to assume the guise of a Right Winger.

Read Post

Health Care & Town Halls

George Mitrovich | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Health Care Reform, Town Halls, Health Care Debate, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Healthcare, Politics News
George Mitrovich

There was fear in the middle school gym Saturday, palpable fear; fear of what the government might do to impose by fiat health care on the nation -- but it was driven by lies and distortions.

Read Post

New GOP Tactic: The Counter-Town Hall

Politico | MICHAEL FALCONE | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Town Halls, Gop, Gop Tactics Town Halls, GOP Tactics, Republicans, Politics News

Republican challengers across the country have found a new way of capitalizing on the roiling emotions surrounding congressional health care town hall...

Read Whole Story

Stop the Teabaggers, Give Them Green Jobs: Lessons From the Coalfields of West Virginia

Mike Elk | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business

Read More: George Bush, Al Gore, Green Jobs, Teabagging, Unemployment, Mountaintop Removal, New Deal, West Virginia, Town Halls, Clean Energy, Racism, Fdr, Progresive-Movement, Appalachia Coal, Appalachia, Appalachia Poverty, Business News
Mike Elk

To know the story of West Virginia is to know why the progressive movement is failing to win over white working class voters. Because of their primary concern: jobs.

Read Post

Ryan Grim

Senate Republican Leaders Plan Closed Health Care Forum

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Town Halls, Mitch McConnell, Roy Blunt, Town Hall Meetings, John McCain, Kit Bond, Politics News

Senate Republicans may have found a way to keep public health care meetings at home from getting out of control: keep the public out. On Monday, Sena...

Read Whole Story

Arthur Delaney

Politics In The Doctor's Office?

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Death Panels, Health Care Reform, Town Halls, Health Care, Politics News

Shirley Rish of Mesa, Ariz., met with an orthopedic specialist earlier this month hoping for relief from some pain in her wrist. Instead, she received...

Read Whole Story

Health Care Reform? Yes We Can!

Lucia Brawley | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Feinstein, Grassroots, Town Halls, Boxer, Obama, Chu, Health Care, Watson, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Politics News
Lucia Brawley

Health care reform supporters don't grab the same level of publicity as the right, unless Howard Dean attends an event, because we agitate rationally. It's time for us to get a tad more theatrical.

Read Post

Arthur Delaney

Mary Duffy Speaks Out At Jackie Speier Town Hall

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Town Halls, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Down Not Out, Politics News

At a town hall event on Sunday in San Mateo County, Calif., Rep. Jackie Speier (D) broke from the question-and-answer format to ask a specially invite...

Read Whole Story

The Public Option, Who Makes Decisions to Treat Us, and Tort Reform

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bureaucrats, Healthcare Decisionmaking, Tort Reform, The Public Option, Supreme Court, Medical Malpractice, Rep. Mark Kirk, Health Care Reform, Town Halls, Obama Health Care, Health Care Myths, Politics News
Miles J. Zaremski

We are not in a room crafting health care legislation, so we have to rely on the words of those we elected to public office to truthfully tell us what they say, and how which bill will best benefit our lives.

Read Post

Media: Angry Right-Wingers Are Important; Angry Libs Are Annoying

Eric Boehlert | Posted 09.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Marc Ambinder, Dick Armey, Howard Dean, Cnn, Health Care Reform, Town Halls, New York Times, Washington Post, Brian Williams, Media News
Eric Boehlert

Suddenly this summer, as right-wing mini-mobs turn health care forums into free-for-alls, as unhinged political rage flows in the streets, and as the Nazi and Hitler rhetoric flies, anger is in.

Read Post

Guns, Guns, Everywhere

Dennis A. Henigan | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gun Violence, Town Hall Debate, National Rifle Association, Concealed Carry, Health Care Reform, Town Halls, Gun Control, Nra, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Barack Obama, Guns, Timothy McVeigh, Guns at Town Halls, Second Amendment, Politics News
Dennis A. Henigan

It is important not to treat these incidents of public gun-carrying as merely the misguided behavior of a few. It is more than that; the acting out of central tenets of the extremist "gun rights" ideology.

Read Post

The Health Care Debate the Media Missed

Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 09.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Video, Death Panels, Sarah Palin, Town Halls, Health Care Reform, Bernie Sanders, Health Insurance, Dr. Jon Lapook, Town Hall Meetings, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Healthcare, Living News
Dr. Jon LaPook

Last weekend I was in Vermont on vacation when I heard that Senator Bernie Sanders was hosting a town meeting on health care. I grabbed my video camera and went to the meeting.

Read Post

No One Wants to Talk About Their Idiots

Bill Shireman | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Town Hall Debate, Americans for Prosperity, Sean Hannity, Barney Frank, Town Halls, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Socialism, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Barack Obama, Idiots, Politics News
Bill Shireman

We need a third political movement in this country -- not today's ideological right or left, who pander to idiots, but a group of radical centrists who step past their initial ignorance, fear, and prejudice, and actually think through solutions to our problems, borrowing ideas from all sides.

Read Post

What if the Right was Right? A Reflection on the "Christian States of America."

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Fundamentalism, Social Justice, President Obama, Teabaggers, Islamists, Secularism, Violence, Globalization, Gun Control, International Law, Obama, Christian Nation, Religious Right, Guns, Nation-State, Politics, Gandhi, Us Constitution, Moral Majority, Christ, Taxation, Health Care, Spirituality, Taxes, Christian Right, Jesus, Terrorism, War, Democracy, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Iraq War, Terroists, Nonviolence, Jesus Christ, Far Right, Progressive Christianity, Health Care Reform, Town Halls, Christianity, Socialism, World, Gospels, Politics News
Cynthia Boaz

I am not saying that Jesus was a Stalinist or even a communist, just that it's very clear from his teachings that he believed that people were happier and healthier when they shared with each other.

Read Post

Reform Supporters Outnumber Critics At Town Halls

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Town Halls, Health Care Town Halls, Health Care Town Halls Public Option, Health Care Public Option, Politics News

While television cameras have focused on vocal opponents to health care reform, in many cases they have been outnumbered by supporters of the legislat...

Read Whole Story

Health Care: The Founding Fathers Weigh In

Sarah Schmelling | Posted 09.17.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Town Halls, Health Care Reform, Founding Fathers, Health Care Debate, Constitution, Humor, Comedy News
Sarah Schmelling

We've given quite a bit of power to the Executive Branch, and since the people elect the president, I'm sure they'll listen to what he has to say when he wants to make some kind of change.

Read Post

Lunatic Fringe

Lance Simmens | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Grassley, Health Care Town Halls, Town Hall Debate, Congress, Lunatic Fringe, Obama Healthcare Reform, Healthcare Debate, Obama Health Care, Right to Life, Politics of Fear, Patriotism, Town Halls, Healthcare Reform, Town Hall Meetings, Death With Dignity, South Park, Politics News
Lance Simmens

The fringe elements, carefully nurtured by fear, hatred, mistrust, and fitful bouts of fantasy are positioning the conservative opposition into a death spiral

Read Post