Oops!

Schadenfreude, how I love you, let me count the ways:

1)  Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY), 2)  Rep. Rick Crawford (R-AR)--"We're done"?  Typical gutless republican. 3) Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI) --love the republicans are the "party of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich" comment.  Right here in our home state, too! 4) Rep. Frank Guinta (R-NH)--foiled by a fourteen-year-old! 5) Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI)--love the "if I can't have it my way I'm taking my ball(s) and going home" whininess. 6) Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA), 7) Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-PA)--some mighty pissed off folks in PA--note to Pennsylvanians:  this is what happens when blue staters vote for republicans! 8)  And the coup de grace, the creme de la creme, the man we Democrats have to thank for the "Main Street Uprising," Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), who had the good fortune of getting booed at his own town hall event!

Pity it only took these folks forty-six years to figure out that the republicans only goal is to dismantle Medicare and if you or your kids or your grandkids can't afford medical care, too damn bad.  Gotta take care of those corporations and rich folks first--God only knows how much better they can eat....

Think Progress has a nice highlight reel here--good times at the Town Halls.

It's also spurring other backlashes--like this NY constituent of Rep. Chris Gibson wondering why the gop congressman was worrying about immigrants not paying taxes (surprise, another republican lie) when multi-billions in profit GE pays none, or here in Michigan (again!  we might catch up to those smart protestors in Wisconsin yet) where the constituents of dupe Tom Casperson are wondering why we're giving tax cuts to wealthy corporations for shits and grins and gutting our education funding....

As usual, Paul Krugman gets it right--there is no deficit crisis, and the goal of the heartless republicans is not to balance the budget but to destroy the social contract that has gone so far to make America what it is today.  It's reverse Robin Hood--they want to take from the poor and middle class and give to the rich.  Briefly:  fuck that.

Peace,
emaycee