{"id":180675,"date":"2017-02-08T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/02\/08\/sow-the-wind-reap-the-whirlwind\/"},"modified":"2017-02-08T19:40:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T00:40:00","slug":"sow-the-wind-reap-the-whirlwind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/02\/08\/sow-the-wind-reap-the-whirlwind\/","title":{"rendered":"Sow the Wind, Reap the Whirlwind"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>It appears that after decades of organizing disruption at Democratic Congressmen’s town halls, Republicans are worried that people are angry with them for attempting to destroy their health insurance<\/a>: <\/p>\n

House Republicans during a closed-door meeting Tuesday discussed how to protect themselves and their staffs from protesters storming town halls and offices in opposition to repealing Obamacare, sources in the room told Politico.<\/span>

<\/span>House GOP Conference Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers invited Rep. David Reichert, a former county sheriff, to present lawmakers with protective measures they should have in place. Among the suggestions: having a physical exit strategy at town halls, or a backdoor in congressional offices to slip out of, in case demonstrations turn violent; having local police monitor town halls; replacing any glass office-door entrances with heavy doors and deadbolts; and setting up intercoms to ensure those entering congressional offices are there for appointments, not to cause chaos.<\/span>

<\/span>\u201cThe message was: One, be careful for security purposes. Watch your back. And two, be receptive. Honor the First Amendment, engage, be friendly, be nice,\u201d said Republican Study Committee Chairman Mark Walker (R-N.C.). \u201cBecause it is toxic out there right now. Even some of the guys who have been around here a lot longer than I have, have never seen it to this level.\u201d<\/span>

<\/span>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span>

<\/span>Democrats, meanwhile, dismissed Republicans\u2019 security ramp-up as an attempt to shield themselves from criticism.<\/span>

<\/span>\u201cI think what you\u2019re seeing is Republicans trying to use security to try to hide themselves from their constituents because they have no plan for a replacement and very little support from Donald Trump,\u201d said Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.). \u201cThey\u2019re going to use so-called security to keep people away.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bingo, Representative Gallego.<\/p>\n

I love this quote, “Many of these lawmakers in safe districts have never dealt with such severe blowback.”<\/p>\n

To quote Finley Peter Dunne, “Politics ain’t beanbag.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It appears that after decades of organizing disruption at Democratic Congressmen’s town halls, Republicans are worried that people are angry with them for attempting to destroy their health insurance: House Republicans during a closed-door meeting Tuesday discussed how to protect themselves and their staffs from protesters storming town halls and offices in opposition to repealing …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[463,387,374,486,406,403],"class_list":["post-180675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-healthcare","tag-hypocrisy","tag-politics","tag-schadenfreude","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}