Republicans simply “do” emotion much better than Democrats. (Why do you think Glenn Beck is always crying?) This was again evident at this past Saturday’s “Congress on Your Corner” forum with Rep. John Hall at the Lewisboro Library. A man and a woman in attendance were ready with “questions” in full Tea Party mode. Essentially, this means that you yell your questions much louder than everybody else, and do so in a way that is not so much asking anything as making angry accusations — including blanket statements about health care reform being “unconstitutional” and Congress pursuing a “radical” agenda. Once those allegations are on the table, any rational answer is ignored. Thus, Mr. Hall’s very calm, reasonable, and relevant responses — which included the facts that the great majority of Americans favor the most important individual elements of the health care reform bill that he will now attempt to implement separately, and that he has no jurisdiction over New York state taxes but had nonetheless been putting pressure on the state to use stimulus funds he had helped procure to eliminate the MTA payroll tax — were shrugged off by these folks in favor of repeating their talking points.
On a recent visit to my ophthalmologist (obviously not the same ophthalmologist currently campaigning against Mr. Hall), he lamented that so many people seem to be in the clutches of the Church of Fox News. He calls it that because once so enthralled, these people just keep repeating the dogma and refuse to consider any other point of view. And he has found that he is better off not attempting to engage them in any kind of discussion, because it is useless.
via Uncommon Sense: Triumph of the shrill.
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Obama’s trip to India is INSANE. NO U.S. president has EVER taken such a large group on ANY trip. You stooges sure do like comparing apples to oranges and leaving out VERY important matters of fact.