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Originally Posted by Mizzou B-ball fan
No, there was very little 'spoon-fed' questions. Most of them were about specific portions of the bill, to the point where they actually listed the section numbers of the bill and read from the bill and asked questions about that part of the bill. If it was a coordinated effort, it worked awfully well. Similar questions were asked in the Harkin town hall meeting. People are coming to the meeting with questions that they've reasearched and I don't think either of these senators were ready to answer the detailed questions that were asked.
Anybody at this point who tries to label these people as you did given the level of research and work they did to present their questions is treading on thin ice politically. The 'mob' is evolving and making the democratic leaders look awfully bad with their blanket statements.
I would also note that someone posed a question of Specter asking his opinion on the [email protected] situation that's been in the news quite a bit over the past week or so. Specter had no idea what the questioner was even talking about. Seriously? |
well good for those questioners then, and that makes those senators look bad that they weren't ready to answer the questions (although tbh i think they should probably all be provided with an "expert on the bill" to go with them to answer detailed questions at this point).
i didn't try to label the questioners - i simply asked about the content of their questions, so don't go trying to paint me as some evil "labeler"
. You can't deny that some of the early "questions" were questions about 100% fabricated things that weren't even in the bill.
i've come out before and said that i am in favor of more occurences like this, more accountability of politicians to the people they serve and such. i've got no problem with people asking politicians hard questions.
[email protected] situation? i haven't heard anything about it either. i'd venture to guess he's been tied up with other things and unless it's a matter of national security it wasn't something of sufficient importance to draw a look from him at this point. senators don't have time to react to every single thing that "draws significant attention" in as timely a fashion as you or I.