8/5/09: TWD's Agenda For The Day: The Pushback Like No Other Seen By The Democrats

Unprecedented

And now, this:

Both Josh Marshall and Greg Sargent on Monday and Tuesday respectively raised the point of where the pushback to the lobbyists founded, conservative driven, nut case hecklers at these health care town halls would come from, and when.

TPM's publisher said this on August 3rd:

We spent most of Monday reporting on these tea-bagging crowds going to Democratic health care town hall meetings to shout down the hosts and shut the events down. It's classic agitprop, very akin to the 'Brooks Brothers riot' down in Florida during the recount.

But where's the other team?

Folks can whine on endlessly about outfits like Freedom Works putting these rackets together. But if the president's plan has any public support they should be able to get supporters to these events too, right? Not to pull the Black Shirt routine but to provide some public demonstration that there's real public support for making reform a reality.

If there is.

So that's the question. Where's the other team?

So true indeed. Where are they? Sargent then proceeded to ask the next day if "our side" was just getting out hustled and out played by "their" side?

But OFA’s activities, and those of the Democratic Party in general, are suddenly are much more important, now that there appears to be a very deliberate right-wing effort under way to create the impression of populist opposition to reform. It’s yet another reminder that health care is the ultimate test of whether Obama’s vaunted campaign operation can drive Obama’s legislative agenda and achieve real results.

Will Obama’s much-vaunted campaign operation be outworked by the Tea Baggers?

Well, besides that video at the top highlighted in this recommended post from turneresq at the Kos, look at what Sargent reports earlier this morning:

Maybe I spoke too soon: OFA is now directly taking on the Tea Party brigade, calling on supporters to respond with an even greater show of force and support.

With Joe Biden set to tout the stimulus in Michigan today, OFA blasted an email to its Michigan list last night calling on supporters to turn out en masse:

Tomorrow, Vice President Joe Biden is coming to speak in Detroit. I’d like to extend a special invitation to Michiganders to join us in showing our support for the President and Vice President.

This event comes at a crucial time. Special interests trying to sink health insurance reform. Organized mobs across the country are intimidating lawmakers, disrupting events, and silencing discussions about the change our country needs. The challenges our country faces are simply too great to let these debates be overrun by those angrily shouting down change…

Join us tomorrow and show that you’re standing up for the President and Vice President as they fight for the change this country needs.

It seems Obama, Tim Kaine, and others are tired of fringe loons trying to destroy meaningful health care reform, which will put the pious ones of the Democratic base in a state of bliss.

The pushback is coming, or has already started.

The next question is, what will happen in the next town hall when these clashes could potentially take place? The pawns of the right-wing's irrationality runs so deep that it would be only foolish to think everything will be peaches and cream once someone from "our" side tells them to shut the hell up.

The passion is boiling right now. And I highly recommend (my sentiments only here) that you make sure that you prepare yourself if you do attend these town halls to be safe, and prepare for anything that may harm you in anyway. Especially if you do the right thing, and tell these clueless and idiotic pawns to shut it.