David Hampton and Travis Childers Sitting In A Tree….
On the heels of Travis Childers’ disastrous interview with The Panolian, David Hampton seemed to mirror Childers’ disdain for people who attend townhalls to let their Senator or Representative know how they feel about proposed healthcare legislation.
From Hampton:
The performance of those showing up at congressional town hall meetings on health care and shouting down speakers is truly disgusting. Why can’t people simply listen to one another and discuss their positions with reason and respect. Sadly, I doubt there are few of the shouters who have a clue about what they are shouting about. Sadly, I doubt they care what the facts are.
This is what liberals think of those who don’t agree with them. They think they must be stupid if they don’t agree with everything Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi think up.
Remember, this is what Childers’ said:
What I’m not interested in, and what I don’t appreciate, is when the other party is busing people to try to be disruptive. That’s what’s unnecessary. We’re trying to help the situation.
David Hampton and Travis Childers sitting in a tree…
If you talked to Hampton some time you might be surprised at how ill-informed he is.
this is the most intellectually insulting approach to a topic that i’ve seen in my whole life! u clowns whipped the faithful into a frenzy and then stood back laughed at the carnage that ensued! sad that a once-great party, born of the noble elephant, has once again resorted to feigning outrage by way of innuendo. silly season, it seems is open again…
Childers didn’t call anyone stupid. He said he didn’t appreciate people being disruptive. Then you responded with a schoolyard chant. Way to go!
If you read the Panolian interview you link to, Childers says, prior to the part you cut and pasted, is:
“Certainly the concerns are justified. Now, if a person is willing to speak to me in a civil tone, and talk about concerns they genuinely have, I want to hear from them. ”
Is that crazy or what?
The fact is, we need healthcare reform and the best way to have everyone’s input is through a calm and rational dialog–not through shoutfests, hate, fear and a sustained campaign of misinformation.
But I’m sure you’ll just call me some name and tell me to shut up.
I never said Childers called anyone stupid. I said David Hampton did, although the two seem to have the same thoughts on townhalls. Notice Childers hasn’t been in town for his August vacation.
“We need healthcare reform.” I don’t know many people who will disagree with that, but that doesn’t mean we need a bad bill shoved down our throat. If the people didnt realize what Obama/ Pelosi wanted the bill would of passed (why do you think BHO wanted it done before August?). The Dems have 60 Senators and 250+ Reps, yet the bill is in trouble- what does that tell you about it?
I suppose I could call you names like a Nazi, racist, un-American, etc.- oh wait, that is what liberals are calling conservatives who disagree with BHO.
Well, what you said was that “liberals” think people must be stupid if those people do not agree with them and I guess I assumed you meant to include Childers in that statement. However since you obviously didn’t, I will agree with you that Childers is no liberal.
Speaking on name calling in general, I’m sure you’ve seen both sides engage in it. The right is just as vitriolic and childish when it comes to name calling as the left and frankly all of it irritates me because none of it is helpful. What I mean is, I consider myself fairly liberal (I vote Green after all) but I like debate and I welcome the opportunity to discuss issues and you just can’t do that through name calling or shouting or other nasty rhetoric. Do you agree?
That said, I’d like to read your views on health care reform (what do you think ought to be reformed and why) and also, what don’t you like about the current House bill? I agree, I am not a big fan of the bill–I don’t think it goes far enough and I’m a fan of a single payer system as it seems to be the most logical and easiest to navigate (like the VA hospitals, for instance)–but what sort of system would you prefer?
I think its fair to say we have fundamental philisophical differences on healthcare and how it should be handled. I would say there are some things that are being discussed which I have no problem with and I think would pass easily if they stood alone- this includes portability from job to job and removing pre-existing condition policies.
I also support tax breaks for those who purchase there own insurance similar to what people who get their insurance through work receieve. I support expanding health care savings accounts for those who choose to just buy catastrophe insurance.
One thing that I agree with that Childers said about healthcare is that he wanted to make it easier to find a provider similar to life or auto insurance where you can go online and pull up instant quotes. I agree with that. I don’t know every detail and regulation that Congress has put on health insurance providers, but I would support efforts to expand the number of providers. I feel that gov’t option would just decrease the number of providers until were left with only the gov’t.
I just think anything related to healthcare needs to be individual based. When the gov’ts involved thats not always the case.
I also wouldn’t support any plan without serious tort reform measures.
The fact is that this healthcare bill is just more big government. I guess we should just ignore the fact that the democrats are the ones who have given us most of the great programs that are doing so well like Social Security and Medicare which are both broke. Moderates are just liberals who don’t have the guts to stand for anything. RME