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If they were truly being disruptive, cops would be handing out citations for disturbing the peace. Angry citizens are going to shout. The way to avoid that is for their representatives to not make them angry in the first place.
Town Halls never strictly adhere to Robert's Rules of Order. It's rather pathetic that the only response the Anti-Republicans have to the ad hoc anger of citizens is to complain about being the focal point of that anger.
People are pissed. The Anti-Republicans need to take two steps back and ask themselves why that is.
Some people are missed. We can even say that many people are pissed, or even that the current majority is as well. But there is a great many who are not, and they, too, are attending these meetings. Are those individuals who support the Democratic health care reform policy simply supposed to sit there and listen to the angry rants of those who oppose it? No, I don't think so. They, too, deserve to hear what their representatives have to say. And if they support Obama's health care reform, then they should be able to say so, or ask the questions that they want to ask without having their representive shouted down by an unruly mob.
I'm not hearing a lot of focus on those people. Instead, we seem to be focusing on those who oppose Obama and the Dems at the town hall meetings, and claiming how wrong it is that they are being shuffled out of the area whenever they're so unruly as to totally disrupt the meeting where nothing more gets presented. It's great that they are so passionate and all, but I disagree with what they are saying. Many other Americans do, too.
Now, regarding this particular town hall meeting, i'd say the representative overreacted. The doctor had a legitimate question, and I didn't hear a large section of the crowd ranting against the representative, so I think his reaction was over the top.