These town halls are really getting out of hand, as we saw last night in two examples.
In Missouri, at a town hall by Rep. Russ Carnahan, a fight broke out between Tea Party activists and supporters of the health care bill. Six people were arrested. It’s not at all clear who started it and both sides appear to be blaming the other. To a certain degree, this is probably a consequence of so many people being packed together in a contentious debate, where the venues have been filled to capacity and people have been turned away as a result.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=139755