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Town Haller Envisions Future With Toilet Paper Rationing
Rachel Slajda | August 11, 2009, 11:53AM
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A town hall attendee who told Sen. Arlen Specer (D-PA) that she doesn't want to see America turn into Russia appeared on Fox News after the event and offered her chilling view of the country's future:
I know that years down the road, I don't want my children coming to me and asking me, 'Mom, why didn't you do anything? Why do we have to wait in line for, I don't know, toilet paper or anything?' I don't want to have to tell them I didn't do anything. As a normal citizen, the most I feel like I can do is come to this town hall meeting.
"The country is slowly being ripped apart," said Katy Abram, who identified herself as someone who didn't care about politics until the last few years. "It scares the life out of me."
Abram was one of 30 people selected to ask a question to Specter. When she got up, she said, in part, "It's not about health care ... It's about the systematic dismantling of this country ... I don't want this country turning into Russia, turning into a socialized country. I want to restore this country to what it was under the Constitution."
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Cal Gal
August 11, 2009 12:21 PM
Gotta love Nancy Snyderman, who just showed this clip and noted, "Of course Russia isn't a socialized country, ..."
It's these folks who "didn't care about politics" until the Lameball started frightening them with his Big Lies who really ARE dangerous to this country's freedom.
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Chris
August 11, 2009 4:02 PM in reply to Cal Gal
Great thread everyone. I've connected some dots here. The only way to stay on top of this debate is to call a lie a lie. Read here.
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JeffB
August 11, 2009 5:43 PM in reply to Cal Gal
Is the protest against Health Care Reform genuine or an effort to destroy President Obama?
http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=5916
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biff diggerence
August 11, 2009 12:22 PM
Dear Ms. Abram:
Find another hobby.
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JoshQuasimoto
August 11, 2009 12:24 PM
We are all Feux-Newsians Now!
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onecrappyusername
August 11, 2009 12:28 PM
"I want to restore this country to what it was under the Constitution."
Memo to lady - that means you wouldn't be able to vote. You could go buy a slave to help with the housework, though.
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DANIEL CLEMENTS
August 12, 2009 8:52 AM in reply to onecrappyusername
memo, she only wants the federal government to follow the Constitution! people like you don't even know what the Constitution says! You also need to open your eyes and get a clue as to what socialism really is!
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Dorn76
August 11, 2009 12:29 PM
Basically, she means restore America to what it once was....a country run by a handful of white farmers.
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CT Voter
August 11, 2009 12:36 PM in reply to Dorn76
White male farmers, dude.
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RedMolly
August 11, 2009 2:05 PM in reply to Dorn76
Yes, because the last time I checked, the Constitution hadn't been repealed or rewritten.
Which gets to a fundamental question I have about all of the wingnuttery among the Deathers and teabaggers and their ilk: has even one of them attempted to provide specific examples of how Obama has ruined the country? Can they point to how their lives have changed since he took office? (Other than being tipped over the edge from to genuine insanity, that is.) And why does no one in the media ever, ever call them on it when they spout that stuff about "what the country was under the Constitution," etc?
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DANIEL CLEMENTS
August 12, 2009 8:54 AM in reply to RedMolly
Your right it has not been rewritten or repealed, but the liberal social fascist ignore it at every turn of the page!!!!
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flyinsaucier
August 11, 2009 12:32 PM
Why is TPM posting headlines from The Onion?
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billysumday
August 11, 2009 12:34 PM
This meme was started by Rush Limbaugh on his show yesterday - he talked at length about the toilet paper shortage in Cuba, and how that would be the future of the United States. So she's not just coming up with this inanity out of thin air - it's being pushed by all the right-wing heavies. None of these people think for themselves.
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Ginny in CO
August 11, 2009 3:30 PM in reply to billysumday
Gosh, Rush and that young women need to hear how the old Sears catalogues ultimately ended up in the outhouse. Given how much junk mail we all get today, the supply of the old TP substitute should be plentiful.
They just have to be instructed that modern plumbing will require used pages be placed in the trash, not the toilet.
[Headache coming on from too much eye rolling...]
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Debra
August 11, 2009 12:35 PM
Did the media give this much attention to the protesters during Bush's administration? I just don't remember them giving that much credence to the war protesters, etc. It just seems that if a Republican farts, the media covers it as the news. I'm getting real bored with this daily wingnut coverage.
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CT Voter
August 11, 2009 12:37 PM in reply to Debra
This is too easy: IOKIYAR rules!
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slb
August 11, 2009 4:44 PM in reply to Debra
Remember that under the Bush administration, suspected opposition members were not allowed into the events in the first place, and that protestors were penned into "free speech zones" far from the actual venue where they would get no attention from the press.
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Chris
August 11, 2009 12:36 PM
Honestly, you can't fix stupid. This will play out, hopefully for the good. But as long as Fox News calls this sort of stuff "informed" and "articulate," there really isn't any stopping it.
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Matt Jones
August 11, 2009 12:42 PM in reply to Chris
Well, keep in mind their standard of 'articulate' includes Shrub's repeated crimes against English syntax, so this statement passes...
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Deep Brain Diarist
August 11, 2009 12:37 PM
You can not fix stupid!!!
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tomjuarez
August 11, 2009 12:40 PM
Apparently this womans understanding of politics and the nation is limited to what she's been told by Glen Beck.
http://www.meetup.com/members/3510141/
This website is also called "Conservative Meetup" and if you dig a little deeper you can see not only that she's been a member since February, but has been on the waiting list to join some sort of Glen Beck meet-up group (do they have to screen their members that thoroughly?)
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MarkOfOhio
August 11, 2009 3:38 PM in reply to tomjuarez
Actually, those meetup.com "waiting lists" are waiting for someone to *start* such a group. I'm on several waiting lists myself. No screening, though.
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eve cairo
August 11, 2009 12:42 PM
And by Fox allowing these mentally ill people to have a format it makes them think they are legitimate and it makes the rest think it is as well. They really all sound like street people to me--these unconnected ramblings that are just insane and scary.
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tomjuarez
August 11, 2009 12:42 PM
She also signed the "expel Specter" petition in that same month:
http://gopetition.us/petitions/expel-specter/signatures-page24.html
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wimomma
August 11, 2009 12:44 PM
Did everyone notice she was video taping Spectors interaction with a crazy man....ya she is just a woman that lives five minutes away...a mom....isn't that what the lady in Green Bay said almost exactly.
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tosh
August 11, 2009 12:45 PM
She's a Glenn Beck fangirl:
http://www.meetup.com/members/3510141
"That explains things."
John
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John R
August 11, 2009 1:27 PM in reply to tosh
Thanks for the Link . I am going to sign up and leave her a little love note ...her 15 minutes just started.
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GTFOOH
August 11, 2009 12:46 PM
When Obama starts rationing tin foil, I'm moving to another country!
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Cronium
August 11, 2009 12:52 PM in reply to GTFOOH
No way he's going to ration tin foil, recent research shows it increases the government's ability to read your mind: http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/
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derekbill
August 11, 2009 12:49 PM
As Marie Antoinette once said: "Let them wipe with tea bags!"
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Hannibal Smith
August 11, 2009 12:52 PM
I thought that Idiocracy was a movie, not a documentary.
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MAX TARDCORE
August 11, 2009 12:52 PM
She could always grift copies of Mother Jones & TheNation. from the library & wipe with those. Prolly already does.
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Chris
August 11, 2009 12:56 PM
Excellent points about the meetup. She's obviously spends her day swaddled in the Republican Fantasy World. That's why I say as long as Fox News continues to portray their ideas and their behavior as "articulate" and "informed" there will be no stopping it.
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rufustarr
August 11, 2009 12:58 PM
Not to put too fine a point on it... but this woman's an idiot. Whenever I hear the word socialism mentioned with respect to the health care debate or any matter concerning US politics, I immediately stop listening and put the person saying it into the 'idiot' or 'disingenous' box. To mention the word socialism to describe anything on the American political scene means you don't have a working definition of the word. Seeing things like this is really disconcerting and makes you throw up your hands.
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Corpiscator
August 11, 2009 1:16 PM
TP rally...the new meme.
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MyMy
August 11, 2009 1:16 PM
Ironic, since one of the things we, the USA, embargoed were exports of toilet paper to Cuba, an actual socialist country.
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atticus1104
August 11, 2009 2:00 PM
Must be a Glenn Beck fan!!!
People like Beck share much of the blame for this insanity.
Check out Glenn Beck's logical conclusion that a level playing field in our society will lead to slavery.
I am not making this up. Here is the clip.
http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=2490
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mk3872
August 11, 2009 2:20 PM
This is conservatism in the age of Limbaugh and Fox News ... Enjoy!
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happycozy
August 11, 2009 2:49 PM
This wacko wants to protect the Constitution. Where was she during the Bush years?
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NH Bob
August 11, 2009 2:55 PM
Limbaugh on toilet paper - he should use it on his lips, seeing all the XXXX that has passed through them.
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LFC
August 11, 2009 3:18 PM
This post is entitled "Town Haller Envisions Future With Toilet Paper Rationing". Should that perhaps be changed to "Town Holler"?
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DKDC
August 11, 2009 3:19 PM
What exactly is a "socialized" country - does that mean it doesn't bark at other countries or pee on the carpet?
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LFC
August 11, 2009 3:45 PM in reply to DKDC
Well if that's the definition, then the GOP certainly doesn't want a socialized country. They bark at everybody and everything, and I'm pretty sure that Glenn Beck pees on the carpet at least twice a week.
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slb
August 11, 2009 4:48 PM in reply to LFC
My thoughts exactly!!
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ejg3
August 11, 2009 4:59 PM
I'm sure that the Charmin offensive or making the country Scott free is of major concern to these folks considering what they seem to be so full of. After being wiped out in the last election they are now afraid of being out of wipe.
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aikbay
August 11, 2009 6:24 PM
Is this the idiot who said she didn't want to see the "socialization" of this country? Somebody needs to bitchslap these people just to wake them up from whatever drug induced state they have dug themselves into.
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