Another typically raucus, rude healthcare town hall meeting, this time with Sen. Mark Warner last night in Fredericksburg. For coverage, see the Associated Press article and the Virginian-Pilot, which describes it as follows:
Before the start of a town-hall meeting on health care Thursday night, U.S. Sen. Mark Warner said he hoped everyone "can take a deep breath, calm down a little bit."Yawn, what else is new? Personally, I'm really starting to doubt whether anything useful comes out of these things.
But almost from the start of the 90-minute session in the Fredericksburg Expo Center, many of the 1,800 in attendance roared their approval or disapproval with almost every comment by the Democratic senator or those asking him questions.
The large array of signs, both preprinted and homemade, seemed to indicate that the crowd was divided fairly evenly between those who support health care reform efforts in Congress and those who oppose them. Mixed in were smatterings of activists pushing gun rights or greener energy.
But the loudest voices during the evening came from those upset with the federal government.
