Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) was greeted with shouts and boos at a town hall meeting on health care at a senior center in Dartmouth, Mass., Tuesday night, an event that was targeted by supporters of perennial independent political candidate Lyndon LaRouche. But the combative House Financial Services Committee chairman met fire with fire.
“On what planet do you spend most of your time?” Frank retorted when a woman in the crowd compared President Obama’s push for health-care reform to the policies of Nazi Germany while holding up a pamphlet depicting the president with a Hitler mustache, a LaRouche anti-Obama health reform campaign image.
Let’s say, almost straight. Because what LaRouche has done – over and over and over again – is to campaign for the Democratic nomination. Seven times, in fact.
What he is not is right wing and his supporters are, in fact, attacking from the left. They want socialized medicine.
At least the WaPo painted them as LaRouche supporters and not crazed Republicans.
However, they are also now trying to paint these guys as the main organizers of the protests at town halls, so they lose all the good points they made.
Because it is not LaRouche supporters who have been showing up in large numbers. They are just very loud and appear to be very active in Frank’s district. (Can’t find the link right now, but I read something about that earlier today.)
