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Not surprisingly, all of these cowards who are afraid to hold town hall meetings have a "D" following their name!

Illinois Senator Durbin's great sell-off started the day after this privileged briefing.

Mr. Durbin's temptation to profit on inside information is a base human instinct that reminds why insider trading is wrong. There were Americans - possibly even some of Mr. Durbin's constituents - who bought the shares that he was peddling. Mr. Durbin sold them shares he knew - but they had no reason to suspect - were going to fall in price because of the unique information he received as a public official.
Sen. Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Democrat and assistant majority leader, looked like such a great investor. On Sept. 19, he sold off $42,696 in mutual-fund shares, and quickly sold off another $73,000 during the rest of September. The stock market collapsed after that. Within two weeks, by Oct. 3, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had fallen by 9 percent. A month later, by Oct. 17, it had plummeted over 22 percent. On Tuesday this week, the average is still down about 25 percent from Sept. 19.

If Mr. Durbin ever leaves his day job as a Democratic politician, he should have a plum position waiting for him as a market timer. On second thought, maybe not. It turns out that on Sept. 18, Mr. Durbin participated in a closed-door meeting with then-Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke. The Fed chairman and Treasury secretary briefed Mr. Durbin and other congressional leaders on the financial crisis and efforts to help financially troubled banks.

The Town Meeting that I seen on TV shows the action of a hostile mob. There was plenty of name-calling, hate mongering and physical threats. These meetings are not civil discussions, they are intimidation tactics of a mob using vocal and physical threats as a method to “express’ their point of view.

How do you expect a Congressmen or Senator to deal with intimidation? I would certainly not put myself in harms way. A perfect example is the comments made here:

“Mr. Durbin’s temptation to profit on inside information is a base human instinct”

“If Mr. Durbin ever leaves his day job as a Democratic politician, he should have a plum position waiting for him as a market timer”

“all of these cowards who are afraid to hold town hall meetings”


All these comments are not about Health Care Reform, they are personal attacks, name-calling, and character assassination, and this is just a written forum! This is beyond the capacity of rational discourse; and this is the mentality of these ‘Town Meeting’ and what President Obama has to deals with.


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PS Passing thought

Even an idiot has the right to their opinion. If you have limited intelligence not like those red necks who attempts to use intimidation to get their way, educate yourself, make an 'informed' decision

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These quotes indicate how well most in Congress and the Senate actually represrent the people that elected them and how much they need to be replaced with people that actually do represent us.

I have been to a Town hall meeting. There are some who have taken advantage of the anger and outbursts from earlier meetings and built on it, setting a tone of rudeness that is not productive. I am disappointed in my congressman for making racial references for those who disagree with the plan. Everyone I talked with at that meeting agreed that there are problems in healthcare that need to be addressed, just not with this plan.

My representative, Paul Tonko, refuses to meet his constituency face-to-face and will only conduct a "telephone" town hall meeting. It will be held on Monday, 17 August at 5:30 PM. This, in a District which is very liberal and about 70% Democrats. The problem with Mr. Tonko is that he doesn't really care what we want. He is hell bent on advancing the liberal agenda of the Democrat leadership. This was evident in his decades spent in the New York State Assembly where he only voted the way the speaker told him to vote.
My guess is that Representative Tonko doesn't want to answer questions about the expansion of government, extreme spending, higher taxes and the usurpation of the Constitution.

you people are nutts. you just aint been szxick enough and hopefuly you will be. when medica bills eat you alive maybe you will understand just how crazy as in mentaly ill you ar.