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Town halls return and so does the anger - Reid J. Epstein - POLITICO.com
Still licking their wounds from what liberals believe was a capitulation by President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats on the debt deal, liberal activists online are consoling themselves with and pushing confrontations at congressional town hall meetings.
Sites like Daily Kos and Think Progress are gleefully cataloguing local news reports of angry constituents confronting the likes of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for reading the Wall Street Journals hobbits editorial and Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) for entitlement cuts, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Obamas perceived move to the right.
The liberal calls for action as lawmakers return to their districts from DC for the summer break echo the rights 2009 successful strategy of aggressively crashing congressional town halls and haranguing Democrats over the health care bill.
Hopefully we see this scene play out in states and districts all over the country this August, and that the cry where are the jobs will be as loud and get as much attention as the cries of death panels two summers ago, Joan McCarter wrote at Daily Kos. In fact, we should make sure it is. Keep an eye out for your representative and senators town meetings. Show up and ask them, Democrat or Republican, Where are the jobs? Ask them about tax breaks for corporations and rich people. And get it on video.
Some of that anger it being taken out on Democrats from liberal constituents unhappy with the debt ceiling compromise. McCollum, according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press, faced questions about Obama like Whose side is he on? and What are progressives telling him?
But it is not just liberals that are angry this summer.