I didn’t make it to Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle’s town hall meeting last night. But I got a chuckle reading about it this morning in the Post Standard. It was reported that a woman, who identified herself as a “fiscal conservative” said to the Congresswoman: [Emphasis mine]
… that she didn’t understand why Buerkle and her fellow Republicans were seeking to cut programs that she said hurt the poor and middle class.
“I would like to see this burden shared with the wealthy,” she said to loud applause from about half the audience, including a group that had taped a banner to the wall proclaiming that 59 percent of the budget goes to military spending.
And Muir added, “I know you don’t believe in global warming, but what can we do to protect the planet for our children?”
I’m sorry, but fiscal conservatives don’t talk that way.
In related news, Rochester’s Democrat and Chronicle reported that Buerkle received a standing ovation at the town hall meeting in Monroe County Monday night.
Update: If you follow the link to the PS, you’ll find a photo of an angry looking guy holding a sign that says “Health Care is a Right, Not a Privilege.” I’m sure he doesn’t consider himself to be a fiscal conservative.
Sounds a little like the ‘Seminar callers’ who try and call in to various conservative talk shows….they spend a few moments trying to establish their ‘conservative’ bonafides before launching into their mindless progressive talking points……..two of which were nailed by that woman
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A fiscal would have said that our current policy on no drilling, no nuclear power, etc is what hurts the poor and children by making gasoline and everything else too expensive. This “policy” of a love affair with ethanol hurts poor people and children more than any thing the Republicans want to do.
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I think that this is one of the biggest problems we face: the uninformed truly believe that a free market system is a “zero sum game” and that whatever hurts the wealthy will help the poor, and whatever hurts the poor will help the wealthy. Obviously WE know far better… but how do we attempt to inform these malcontents that merely punishing taxing the wealthy will not help the rest of us?
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Typical leftie ploy…Lie about being conservative and try to have a gotcha! momoent.
By the way: I don’t disbelieve global warming/climate change. They haven’t PROVEN IT TO ME. Until they do, there is no such thing as far as I’m concerned.
NOTE: Al Gore’s spewage does NOT count. No way. No How.
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[...] Doesn’t that sound familiar? I wonder if they’re instructing people to pose as “fiscal conservatives” when asking those pointed questions. Tags: ann marie buerkle, labor, liberal groups, unions [...]
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