I am not so sure they are being outmaneuvered. These people unfortunately have more time than the President but I blame the DNC for not being more organized to have people at the Town Hall Meetings to counteract these whackjobs

I am not really sure how they are supposed to respond to these interruptions because from what I have seen the audience in many cases will not let them finish speaking. My sincere question is why does a student at Florida get tasered while interrupting a John Kerry event, yet these yahoo's don't get the same treatment? Is it an age thing? Is it a campus thing? What the hell? I am in no way advocating a more aggressive police or security response to citizens complaints, but how can you have a question and answer session if the crowd does not want to hear either? If I were a rep, I would just tell everyone in attendance that there can be no video recording devices in these town halls, that way the only attention gotten would be from newspapers (which no one apparently reads if you look at the economics) and from blogs.

Let them keep it up. They look like idiots and now that Gibbs and other White House suits are drawing attention to the astroturf nature of the exercise, it should compel the media to finally call it what it is instead of meekly reporting it as spontaneous protests by constituents.

To some extent, I think we should allow the teabaggers to get some coverage, yelling and out of control. And then we should start saying that the Republicans have been taken over by these Teabaggers and start referencing the Republican party as the Teabagger Party. In other words, force ownership of the Teabaggers and Birthers on the Republicans. Let them become the face of the GOP.

But to think this is not engineered by the health industry would be naive. They obviously worked to get a delay in Congress and then met or had someone meet with the leadership of these anti-government groups to organize protests and chaos. It would be interesting to know who their health providers are because by the looks of many of them, I would guess medicaire.

It's ridiculous for Axelrod or Gibbs to be saying anything about these anti-reformers. Instead, they need to make sure that when Steny Hoyer speaks, there are 100 organizers on our side in his presence. When Patrick Murphy speaks, there are 150 organizers on our side in his presence.

What's needed is better organization. The reason we won the election was not because we called out those who disliked Obama to the point where they claimed he was a terrorist. We won because we convinced some on the other side that Obama was right on the issues. If we get health care passed, it's going to be because we convince Ben Nelson, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Arlen Specter and a coupe of House Democrats that are on the fence that it's critical that we reform health care now.

We can't do that by claiming these wingnuts are intimidating people at town halls. Yes, those who refuse to follow the rules of given town halls need to be removed. But, those who simply show up and voice their opposition should not be villified. They should be challenged both by our representative and by others that are at the Town Hall.

Right wing agitators. Insurance company flacks and dupes with tea bags over their heads. And, oh yes, the Rethuglicans think it is a fine and dandy game for their supporters to commit disorderly conduct. What else is new?

Well - first, I'd say that the Obama political shop's tactical specialty is the rope-a-dope. I think the Democratic plan was to ride the honeymoon to a quick passage of legislation, but by no means do I think Axelrod and company are worried they have to go the longer route.

The key will be how they counterpunch. Shining a bright light on shouters, screamers, nazi sign carriers, and people that don't know Medicare is a government program isn't a counterpunch... that's the let your opponent punch himself into irrelevance part.

They'll still need to sell a program. I get hints of it, so maybe it's coming, but the fact that Medicare is more cost effective and boasts much higher beneficiary satisfaction compared to private insurance seems like a good start.

Hell... sell it right and clearly - and you might see more people upset we're NOT getting single payer.

The key to a good bill is making sure the debate happens on our turf. In this case, our turf is nicely supplemented by having the facts on its side.