Good townhall comeback

[DrToast]

I found this on reddit. I don't know if it's true, but it's pretty damn funny:

So today I went to a town hall meeting hosted by republican representative Peter Hoekstra, I got to ask him a direct question afterwards, it went like this:

me: "Insurance companies' bottom lines are their profits, the government's bottom line is serving the people, so why should I trust insurance bureaucrats over government ones?"

Congressman Pete Hoekstra: "Here, name me ONE government organization that functions."

me: "Well sir, you work for the house of representatives, a government organization, are you implying that you don't function properly?"

... I think he wanted to hit me.

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/9g2x2/i_yelled_at_a_congressman_today/

:rofl:

[NoSheep]

1. Yeah, baby!

:headbang:

edited to chose the right smiley

[jaxx]

2. Three cheers for you!!!

Uh did he ever answer?

[flor de jasmim]

3. Love it! And GOOD FOR YOU!

[krispos42]

4. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, FBI, Secret Service, US Marshals...

FAA, FCC, FDA, Social Security Adminstration, Medicare, Medicaid, Veteran's Administration, the FDIC, ICE, Bureau of Land Management, Tennessee Valley Authority, Hoover Dam, NASA, USGS, NOAA, NWS, CIA, DIA, NSA, NTSB, Army Corps of Engineers, National Parks Service...

[gratefultobelib]

11. bookmarked~thanks!!

[DrToast]

14. AIG has been functioning since the government started running it!

[question everything]

23. Yes, this is what I would have pointed: "war on terror"

"war in Iraq." After all, they claimed that there was no additional terror attacks on US soil thanks to whatever measures they thought they were using.

[metapunditedgy]

29. Well, they're working on NASA. n/t

[aggiesal]

52. Great response. I'll add a few more,

CDC, IRS, BLM, ATF, ...

We could keep going, and create a very nice list to send to Hoekstra.

[Barack_America]

58. NIH, CDC...

Plus the 27 institutes that make up the NIH, performing cutting edge research on a variety of subjects.

http://www.nih.gov/icd/index.html

[Blue_Tires]

5. brilliant

[grantcart]

6. Center for Disease Control

[Hepburn]

7. Talk about pwned!

:rofl: :applause:

This needs to go to KO and Rachel!

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

8. Another question I have for him: is he willing to forgo his own public option plan?

As a federal government employee, he received health care coverage that is paid for by taxpayer dollars. He should give up his own public option plan and return that money to the people, since he thinks the public option is so horrible.

GIVE THAT MONEY BACK, SIR! You and your Repuke friends!!!!!!

[krispos42]

9. "Congress, despite your best efforts"

:evilgrin:

[Cha]

10. Republicons are so easy to get if

they shut up for a second to get a word in edgewise.

[gauguin57]

12. "...name me ONE government organization that functions."??? WTF? Megastupid.

That is one of the dumbest thing I've heard in this season of supremely dumb statements. Peter Hoekstra is too stupid to be allowed out of his house, let alone into the House.

[YOY]

55. I have seen them pull out the slightest mistake and hold it up as the pinnacle of FAIL.

They'll find any mistake whatsoever that an agency/department has done and claim that it is the ultimate in Government inefficiency.

I work with one of those FReeps who claims that we (where I work...psuedogovernmental) are a failure. It ain't broken I'll tell you...but it could use some more budget (non-stimulus) money to fix it.

He cites lack of profit as the reason. Lack of profit in the field in a non-modernized system is the standard GLOBALLY. Once the system is fully modernized does it start turning an annual profit. The initial investment is not paid off...but the annual income is greater than the payments.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

13. "Why do you hate the troops sir?" nt

[Beartracks]

34. LOL True that. n/t

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

51. Unfuckingbelievable ain't it. nt

[progressoid]

15. Snaaaap!

[Overseas]

16. K&R !!

And that damn fire department.

[WCGreen]

17. Big Kick and Rec...

[Uncle Joe]

18. And excellent use of Logical Ju Jitsu, DrToast

:applause:

[GreenPartyVoter]

19. LOL! You get a gold star _and_ a high five for that!

[Milspec]

20. Outstanding

[calimary]

21. BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!! EVERYBODY, take note of this one!!!! If only I could recommend this

ten thousand times...

[madmax]

22. Fabulous!

:rofl: :fistbump: :toast:

[jimlup]

24. Very well done!

[Roland99]

25. AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!

[Dinger]

26. Oh Yaah Baby! LOVE That!

:rofl: :applause:

[MasonJar]

27. You do say "afterwards." Does that mean the others didn't hear you?

I hope they did because it was a TOUCHE' question. Although in his case, it may not be a relevant question.

[green917]

28. My reply would have been slightly different

I would have responded, "Would you care to ask that question of the hundreds of firefighters fighting to save peoples' homes in California as we speak Congressman? How about asking the thousands of police officers walking a beat protecting the citizens of their cities today? No? Well, then how about asking the thousands of men and women defending us in Iraq and Afghanistan currently? You think these brave individuals aren't doing their jobs? Because every single one of them works for a government organization."

Hoekstra's a douche bag regardless though.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

30. Spanked with his own paddle.

I love it :D

[varelse]

31. He walked right into that one

that had to hurt :P

[WhiteTara]

32. Good Work!

:patriot:

[W T F]

33. The Air Traffic Control system that he used to get to the meeting

[BREMPRO]

35. priceless!

the us military is another good answer- a sacred cow the repukes call the best in the world and forget to mention is financed and run by.... THE US FEDERAL GOVERNNMENT.

[defendandprotect]

36. Really funny and great -- !!! Thank you!!

[democrat2thecore]

37. Beautiful!

[AllyCat]

38. There were so many good answers here, but I think that one drove it home

[Fedja]

39. Never understood that

Elected government reps seem to be standing up one after another saying that the government is too incompetent to run healthcare. Why are they still in their positions? They -are- the government they so eagerly criticize, why don't they resign?

If your manager at work stood up during the Christmas party and proudly announced that his department could fuck up a cup of coffee and can in no way be trusted with anything important, he'd be gone by New Years. Gone! Sure hope that the voters catch on by next election.

[ejpoeta]

63. really!! if they are so competent, why do they get a paycheck??

[moonbatmax]

40. It ought to be a litmus test:

ANYONE who chooses to run for office,
especially Congress or the Presidency,
should be required to answer the simple question,
"Do you believe the United States government capable
of solving problems and serving its citizens?"

If the answer is "No," that person does not get on the ballot.
If "Yes," throw it back at 'em every single time they say otherwise.

People who do not believe in government do not belong in goverment.
How could we expect anyone who doesn't believe it can work
to even try to make it work?

Reagan famously said, in his first inaugural address,
"Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem."
In other words, he warned us, at the very beginning of his presidency,
that he was part of the problem.

And people still wonder how things got so screwed up...

[unpossibles]

49. Exactly.

Or as I like to say, "would you want someone who hates cars to drive a bus? Would you want to be operated on by someone who thinks medical science is quackery? Then why would you vote for a Republican?"

[mascarax]

54. Absolutely! "People who do not believe in government...

do not belong in government."

We need to throw that in their faces constantly.

[madeup64]

64. I don't understand

Why this isn't a repeated talking point by the Dems. They should hit the GOP on this every time they bring up how bad gov't is. Being a gov't worker myself I can tell you why the gov't runs ineffeciently, its becuase the GOP has mostly run gov't for the last 30 years and they have shortcutted it at every turn. The job I do, my private counterparts wouldn't have half the caseload myself and my co-workers get. How the hell can you be efficient, when you have so much work that it would take 2-3 people to do it even somewhat efficiently? Its so damn disengenious to just say "Gov't doesn't work," without asking the question, Why doesn't it work?

[Trocadero]

41. postal service!

[HCE SuiGeneris]

42. As with most Repuglicans, he is a hypocrite, intentionally shoveling off of misinformation

and lies in an endeavor to better his political/monetary gain.

[Norrin Radd]

43. kr

[cleveramerican]

44. Interstate hi-way system

is one nobody mentioned.

[harmonicon]

45. please, Lord, let this be his undoing.

I know that most of the self-choking mouth breathers in his district would never vote for a dem, but maybe now someone could have a chance.... or at least fuck with him and make him spend shit loads of money.

[liberal N proud]

46. I would imagine one of two things happened

Either you could hear a pin drop in that room or the crowd went nutz.

[ccharles000]

47. so funny

[trayfoot]

48. Yeah!!!! SMACK DOWN!

[OwnedByFerrets]

50. Nailed it!!!!

[RoccoR5955]

53. WAY TO GO! K&R! n/t

[jwirr]

56. I think one of the biggest reasons they think everything is failing is

because it does not totally eliminate the problem. That is what they have against any people program. Unfortunately they are the idealists here. We as democrats understand that many problems will never go away and that the best we can do is help the individual faced with the problem when we can.

When newt forced Clinton to "reform" welfare they added the 6 year rule (It would have been a 2 year rule if newt had had his way). They were totally idealistic in this forgetting that there have to be jobs for all those people and that there are actually some people that for one reason or another will never be able to hold a job. If we look around in our communities we know they are there and we would not just let them starve but pugs did not care. They wanted to see welfare eliminated in 6 years. Thank God the states started looking for ways to by-pass the 6 year law. I was one of the people the states helped. I had to stay home and care for my severely disabled daughter. If newty had his way she would have been institutionalized at a much higher cost and I would have gone on to take care of other peoples children.

Wake up you damn pugs. "The poor will always be with us" is a quote from your Bible. Mine to but I believe it.

[HillWilliam]

57. Nicely done! K&R! n/t

[Myrina]

59. You totally ROCK!

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[DrZeeLit]

60. Excellent reply! Many RW's want to splash red over the whole gamut without thinking. Nice job!

[otohara]

61. We Should Call His Office

and clue him in on the many Government agencies and organizations that function.


District Offices

Holland
184 South River Avenue
Holland, MI 49423
[phone]
Fax: [phone]

Muskegon
900 3rd Street, Suite 203
Muskegon, MI 49440
[phone]
Fax: [phone]

Cadillac
210 1/2 North Mitchell Street
Cadillac, MI 49601
[phone]
Fax: [phone]

Washington, D.C. Office

Washington, D.C.
2234 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
[phone]
Fax: [phone]

[tomm2thumbs]

62. he would have to be able to function to hit you

[treestar]

65. His anti-government bias has gone to absurd extremes

Does he realize what he said? That's ridiculous! :rofl: